Christy Havranek
Christy Havranek is the Photo Director at HuffPost, where she oversees a team of photo editors and photographers. She has over 18 years of experience in the photo business, having worked at NBCUniversal, Frommer’s Travel, & Polo Ralph Lauren, among others. She recently was a juror for the Lenscratch exhibit “Good Manners”, the 2018 LensCulture Street Photography Awards, and Photolucida Critical Mass. Christy is a juror for the 2019 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Competition, and in February 2019 will appear alongside industry colleagues at the Turchin Center for Visual Arts to discuss contemporary photography and its role in creating a more just and equitable society. Christy is honored to be an editorial mentor with Women Photograph for 2018-2019. HuffPost assigns photographers to cover a variety of national and international topics -- from breaking news to long-form enterprise pieces -- and licenses existing photo series to feature on its global platform.