Gabby Salazar, age 21Editor, Nature's Best Photography StudentsPleasant Garden, North Carolina, USA
Gabby Salazar is the 21-year-old Editor of the new Nature's Best Photography for Kids magazine. She was named BBC Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2004 and won the Youth award in Nature's Best Photography Awards competition in 2002. She is the chair and founder of the Youth Action Committee for the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) and on the Board of Directors of Images for Conservation Fund (ICF). Gabby is a senior at Brown University studying Science and Society.
Chase Pickering, age 21Director of Marketing and PromotionsAsheville, North Carolina, USA
In February of 2005, Chase was selected to serve a two-year term on Dr. Jane Goodall's National Youth Leadership Council because of his involvement in Roots & Shoots, a program of the Jane Goodall Institute. Chase took a year off between high school and college to work in Washington, DC as the Youth Leadership Fellow for Roots & Shoots. He is a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From the Amazon River basin, to Africa's vast Serengeti Plain, to a sub-Antarctic island, Chase's travels, experiences, and images present compelling photography with a purpose.
Maya Robinson, age 19Assistant Editor, Nature's Best Photography StudentsBethel, Vermont, USA
Maya Robinson has been working at Nature's Best Photography Magazine for two years. She has worked on the Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards Exhibit displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. One of her images was also Highly Honored in the Youth category. She is currently a sophomore at Duke University, and serves as the Photo Editor of Duke's daily newspaper, The Chronicle. Maya became interested in photography through years of smiling for family photos and moved behind the camera at age 12. She has been there ever since.
