Tom Kennedy is an internationally known visual journalist with 35 years of print and online journalism experience, including positions as Managing Editor for Multimedia at washingtonpost.com and Director of Photography at the National Geographic Society. He has created, directed, and edited visual journalism projects that have earned Pulitzer Prizes, as well as EMMY, Peabody, and Edward R. Murrow awards.

Kennedy has been a featured speaker at some of the most prestigious journalism conferences and media workshops around the world, while also consulting to various academic institutions and media companies on topics ranging from media management to multimedia storytelling, photojournalism, and innovating within a corporate environment.

Tom began his career as a photojournalist at the Orlando Sentinel-Star and the Gainesville Sun. Subsequently, at the Philadelphia Inquirer, he directed and edited two projects that won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.

He serves on the Board of Advisors for The Knight Center for International Journalism within the School of Communication at the University of Miami, the Board of Visitors for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the Board of Directors for the Eddie Adams Photo Workshop.

Kennedy graduated cum laude with a degree in journalism from the University of Florida.