Ariel Zambelich is the Visuals Director for the Baltimore Banner. She previously worked at The Wall Street Journal, The Intercept, NPR Visuals, and WIRED. She is a board member with the Authority Collective, an organization that amplifies the voices of female-identifying and nonbinary lens-based creators of color through community action. She was also a founding organizer with the Freelance Solidarity Project, a union for freelance media workers.