Whitney Latorre is the vice president of visuals and new media at National Geographic, leading the photography, video, and immersive teams. She joined National Geographic in 2015 as the magazine’s Deputy Director of Photography. From 2007 to 2015, Latorre was on the staff of The New Yorker, first as a picture editor and later as the director of photography. Prior to joining the magazine, she worked at the Open Society Foundations, where she was a founding member of the Documentary Photography Project and managed an international grant competition and exhibition for documentary photographers. Latorre received her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College and continued with graduate work in American studies at Columbia University.