Photograph by Marvin Jospeh

Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel an award-winning visual editor and producer with an interdisciplinary background in photography, multimedia, fine art and documentary film. As a photo assignment editor on the international desk of The Washington Post, she led ambitious interactive enterprise projects and long and short-form visual reports with a regional focus on Latin America, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. She was the visual editor for the OPC award-winning investigative series on Latin American criminal networks and a Pulitzer Prize finalist series on American tech companies operating in India.

Prior to The Post, she spent seven years as a photo editor at National Geographic, commissioning and producing ambitious, big budget visually driven stories about contemporary culture, migration, race and gender. She was the lead photo editor on the magazine's 2022 cover story on Indigenous sovereignty, the 2019–2020 series on women and the 2018 series on race. She has received numerous awards from the National Press Photographers Association and Pictures of the Year International, including second place for Magazine Picture Editor of the Year from both organizations.

Prior to National Geographic, she oversaw public programming for Photoville, was Associate Director of Anastasia Photo Gallery, Studio Manager for artist Hank Willis Thomas, and co-founded and curated the Brooklyn Photo Salon. She began her journalism career producing long-form documentaries for PBS Frontline. She studied anthropology and photography at New York University and received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International & Public Affairs.