Photo by: Ameer Jangda

About Vi

I’m a visual artist and editor from Houston, Texas and now based in Washington, D.C. Currently, I’m a contributing photo editor at The New York Times covering National Politics and the 2025 Counter Histories fellow at Magnum Foundation. Most recently, I was a contract photo assignment editor at The Washington Post, the Photo Editor fellow in the NYTimes Fellowship 2022 - 2023 class, coordinator at Women Photograph, and staff associate photo editor at National Geographic Magazine. I’ve taught at  Adobe, National Geographic Student Expeditions, the International Center of Photography, and the Bronx Documentary Center.

I am a member of Authority Collective, Diversify.Photo, Asian-American Documentary Network, and Brown Girls Doc Mafia.