WJEC07 Opening Keynote Session
Friday, August 8 at 4:45 p.m.
Transparency, Trust and Tactics of Care:
Teaching New(s) Methods for an Evolving Public
Keynote Speaker Tara Pixley
Join us in welcoming Tara Pixley, Visual Journalist,
Executive Director, Authority Collective,
Assistant Professor, Temple University
as the WJEC07 Opening Keynote Session speaker.
About Our Speaker:
Tara Pixley is many things: a visual journalist, an experienced media producer and consultant, and a journalism professor based in Los Angeles. But whether she is collaborating with the Wall Street Journal to document a Black Lives Matter march in Los Angeles or capturing portraits of the Dames Aflame contemporary burlesque dancers in Atlanta, Pixley remains conscious of the way that photography can be used to tell stories that resonate across culture, languages, and time. As a queer, first-generation Jamaican-American raised in the Southeast U.S., Pixley cares deeply about the visual rhetoric of photography, often pushing audiences to rethink visual representations of gender, race, class, and sexuality. A founding member and Executive Director of Authority Collective, Pixley is helping to build a community for women and nonbinary photographers of color, challenging organizations to be more diverse and inclusive in how they tell their visual stories.