On October 15, our class met with Donny Bajohr, Quentin Nardi, and Jeff Campagna from Smithsonian. Donny, an RIT graduate, emphasized the importance of recognizing that you might not necessarily do what you want to be doing immediately after you graduate. He worked for the Peace Corps for a time…

Today we met with Michael Wichita, the Director of Photography at AARP. I’m so glad we got to sit down and speak with him; I had never considered AARP a place where photojournalists might want to work. However, doing some research before our meeting was definitely helpful. I love the…

Today we were joined by the third year students in the Photojournalism program for a great meeting with three women who work for National Geographic: Dominique Hildebrand, Picture Editor Anne Farrar — Picture Editor Shweta Gulati — Mobile Storytelling Producer/Editor National Geographic is such a well known and well respected…

On October 8 we met with Kelly Jo Smart. An RIT alumna, she was able to share with us her story of how she made it through college to end up working for the Obama Foundation. Much like my classmate Jackie, Kelly Jo found that she enjoyed working with stills…

Today we met Alex Snyder, an editor for Nature Conservatory. He started out as a child just capturing moments in nature, before going to Ohio University and receiving an official education in photography. “Shooting film taught me the technical skills I needed,” said Snyder, “Study abroad told me I can…

Wow! I was so excited to speak with Greg Nash. The Hill is a publication I have been looking at for some time, at the suggestion of multiple photojournalists I met at Northern Shortcourse in March. I was told that The Hill had a great internship program for young photographers…

Andrew Harrer, an alumnus from our Photojournalism program, is a photographer at Bloomberg in Washington, D.C. As someone who is interested in working in politics at some point in my career, I loved hearing what he had to say not only about his publication, but about working on Capitol Hill…

Emily Bogle graduated from our program at RIT ten years ago. She’s a bit of a self-described ‘anomaly’; it’s not very often that you find someone who has stayed pretty much with the same job for almost ten years. Her work at NPR involves the editing of digital stories, something…

Today we met with three members of the visual team at Science Magazine: Emily Peterson, Bill Douthit, and Kaitlyn Dolan. Science Magazine is an offshoot journal for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with a visual team made of 17 people. Working as a photo editor for a…