Meridith Kohut is an award-winning photojournalist who has documented humanitarian issues and global health in Latin America for the foreign press since 2007. She spent five years documenting the economic crisis in Venezuela, resulting in dozens of front-page stories published in The New York Times. Her work in Venezuela is widely considered the largest and most comprehensive photographic archive of the crisis made by a single photographer. She has also chronicled the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate-driven migration in Central America and the United States, labor rights and cholera outbreaks in Haiti, war widows entering the workforce in Syria, and gang violence and prison overcrowding in El Salvador. Her investigative work in Venezuela was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography in 2018. She earned a Courage in Journalism Award in 2018 from the International Women’s Media Foundation.