Alison Zavos, Editor-in-Chief, Feature Shoot
Alison Zavos is the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Feature Shoot and a photography curator. She is also an active member of the photography community, reviewing portfolios for numerous organizations and speaking on various panels discussing topics such as the impact of new media, marketing, press and photography blogs. Prior to running Feature Shoot full time, Zavos worked as a photo editor. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and 2-year-old daughter.

Gabriel Sanchez, Photo Essay Editor, BuzzFeed
Gabriel H. Sanchez is a writer and photographer. He holds an undergraduate degree in photo-communications and a graduate degree in photography from Parsons The New School for Design. He’s the current Photo Essay Editor at BuzzFeed dot com, the website, and is a contributing writer on photography for Artforum.com, Aperture.com, Artslant.com, among others. www.gabrielheliosanchez.com

Erin Allweiss, Number 29
Erin Allweiss is the founder of No. 29 – a NYC based communications firm with a focus on arts, design, impact and storytelling. No. 29 works with artists and institutions who are spurring a dialogue and moving the needle.This includes photographers and sculptors shifting the way people see the world, platforms and conferences that are changing the way people experience stories, and a real estate developer with an unwavering dedication to design and affordability. Erin has worked in Washington, Paris and New York, combining her background in public policy with arts communications. Among photography projects of note, she has led PR for the TED Prize, including 2011 winner JR; the major photo project This Place, for which 12 photographers from around the world made bodies of work in Israel and the West Bank; photographers whose work examines environmental degradation, including Guggenheim Fellow Rachel Sussman; and artist Arne Svenson, whose work Neighbors launched a conversation (and court case) about privacy.

Blake Zidell, Founder & President of Blake Zidell & Associates
Blake Zidell is the founder and president of Blake Zidell & Associates, a Brooklyn-based public relations firm that represents artists, non-profit organizations, cultural institutions and festivals. Current and recent clients include Photoville, St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Kitchen, StoryCorps, BRIC and the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Festival, FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival, Soho Rep, the New School College of Performing Arts, Performance Space 122, National Sawdust, Abrons Arts Center and Luaka Bop.

Elizabeth Griffin is the Photo Editor for Esquire Magazine (online), Strategic Visual Content Editor for Hearst Digital Media (HDM), and a senior staff photographer and producer across all HDM brands. She is the co-founder of Project Amelia, an all-volunteer effort to assist a fellow-photographer with cancer-treatment costs, and a three-time team producer at the Eddie Adams Workshop. She is a life-long New Yorker and a graduate of Georgetown University.

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