Marissa Leshnov

Editorial clients include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, National Geographic and the Los Angeles Times. Among my commercial clients are Apple, Athleta, Discord, Google and Nike.

Frequent contributor to the Times' visual coverage of the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California for the National, International, Business and Culture desks.

Frequent contributor to Guns and Lies series investigating the life-changing aftermaths of gun violence and prevention programs in California. Additional coverage topics include K-12 education, mass incarceration, housing insecurity, and issues that disproportionately impact Black and brown communities.

Photographed monument-making projects across California and the American Southwest interrogating public memory and cultural erasure with support from Monument Lab.

Coordinated marketing, education and outreach activities for statewide $1 billion endowed program in close collaboration with nonprofit partners and community-based organizations.

Functioned as staff photographer and videographer for national solar nonprofit. Developed and presented webinar for staff on best practices photographing vulnerable communities, along with technical advice on correctly exposing darker skin tones.

Coordinated volunteer and training opportunities for over 900 community members in the San Francisco Bay Area. Developed and led curriculum for a new week-long training program designed to create career pathways for women in solar. Photographed events and activities and wrote stories for web.

Researched methods to improve biofuel processing reactions. Co-authored scientific paper published in Energy & Fuels.