Geri Migielicz is currently Director of Photography at the San Jose Mercury News. Previously, she was the first picture editor at the Rocky Mountain News, and a picture editor and photographer at the Seattle Times. She also worked as a photographer in St. Joseph, Mo. and Emporia, Ks. She graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and attended graduate school at Ohio University. She was a 2005 Knight Fellow at Standford University. She has been a faculty member at the Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop and visiting faculty at the Poynter Institute. She is a founding board member of Associated Press Photo Managers.