Ariel Zambelich is an editor on NPR’s award-winning Visuals Team, which collaborates with the newsroom to tell stories that create empathy through photojournalism, illustration, graphics, design, data reporting, and video journalism. She has covered major breaking news events, collaborated on international stories including climate change in India and war in Afghanistan, photographed high-profile figures like President Obama and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and contributed to long-term investigations about veterans’ issues and the effects of mustard gas testing.
A Los Angeles native, she graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in journalism. She attended the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2008, earned a nomination for World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass in 2009, and attended the Kalish Workshop for photo editing in 2012. Previously, she worked as a freelance photojournalist for clients such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, FADER, M le Magazine du Monde, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Vice, among others. She also spent several years co-directing a documentary photography gallery in San Francisco, and working as a photo editor/photographer at WIRED Magazine.