Elizabeth Cheng Krist is a senior photo editor for National Geographic.  Before coming to the magazine in 1994, she worked at Asia and Fortune.  Elizabeth has judged competitions for Kodak, Nikon, NPPA, College Photographer of the Year, and the RFK Journalism Awards.  She has spoken at the Pingyao Photo Festival, and served as a team editor at Eddie Adams Workshop.  Elizabeth received an International Reporting Project fellowship and shares with colleagues awards from POYi, Overseas Press Club, and Communication Arts.  She has reviewed portfolios at the Palm Springs Photo Festival and Review Santa Fe, and has curated exhibitions in Washington, D.C., and Athens, Greece.  Elizabeth grew up in Saint Louis and graduated from Princeton.

Jayme McLellan is the founding director of Civilian Art Projects, a gallery representing emerging and established artists located in Washington, D.C. McLellan has worked in teh arts since the mid-niteties curating exhibitions and organizing events in galleries and alternative spaces in Washington, D.C.; New Orleans, LA; Minneapolis, MN; New York, NY; Miami, FL; and museums in Canada and Europe.  Civilian Art Projects is the second arts organization founded by McLellan and her first solo venture.  Prior to Civilian, McLellan co-founded and served as co-director of Transformer (2002 - 2006).  From 1998 to 2001, she was director of development for the District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC), Where she organized a large scale, international exchange and exhibition, among other things.  In addition to running Civilian, she is adjunct faculty at the Corcoran College of Art & Design leading classes on professional practices for visual artists and curatorial theory.

Ken Ashton resides in Washington, D.C., and has spent the past decade photographing neighborhoods throughout the world, with DC as a starting center point. He has undertaken an encyclopedic project of photographing communities in the Northeaster corridor of the US, from DC to Boston, entitled Megalopolis.  Ashton's work has been featured in exhibitions in many venues including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington Center for Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art (DC), Anacostia Museum, Arlington Arts Center, Charlottesvilles' Second Street Gallery and Longwood Center for the Arts in Farmville, VA. Ashton received his BFA from James Madison University.

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