Erika Schultz is a staff photographer for The Seattle Times and a member of their Climate Lab team. As a photographer and videographer, she focuses on news and longform stories about human connection and community, health, climate change and the environment.

Her visual storytelling has been recognized by Pictures of Year International, the Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, National Edward R. Murrow Awards and the ASNE Community Service Photojournalism awards. Supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation, her immersive digital stories exploring asylum, deportation and women's rights on the U.S.-Mexico border earned a National Emmy, an Online Journalism Award and recognized by NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism. She also was part of The Seattle Times’ 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning team for Breaking News Reporting.

Erika has taught photo and video storytelling at University of Washington, Photographic Center Northwest and coached at Mountain Workshops. Understanding the increasing risks journalists face online and in the field, Schultz completed a Hostile Environment and First Aid Training. She is also certfied FAA Part 107-certified drone pilot.

In her free time, she enjoys cycling, snowboarding and learning languages.

PRESS:

November 2021 - Artworks - US Resettlement: Five Years Later

September 2021 - The Seattle Times wins Emmy Award for ‘Disappearing Daughters’

February 2021 - Photographic Museum of Humanity - The Other Side Exposition

November 2020 - Pulitzer Center - Memory and Protest of Femicide in Juárez

December 2019 - IWMF - Our list of the 19 Women Changing Journalism

July 2019 - Images including in Photoville Exibition - Tragedy to Light, 30 Years of The Alexia at Photoville in New York -

August 2019 - Poynter - The Seattle Times went beyond the border to bring home immigration stories.

November 2018 - Nieman Reports - Investigating the Housing Crisis

May 2017 - Seattle Channel - Portraits of Homelesness

August 2017- Behind the Byline: Meet reporter Tyrone Beason and photojournalist Erika Schultz

August 2017 - Swim Ballet - NPPA Magazine

August 2017 - 30 Days - Q13 Fox