Erika Schultz works as a staff photographer for The Seattle Times, where she focuses on photo and video storytelling. She taught visual storytelling at The University of Washington's School of Communication, Photographic Center Northwest and Mountain Workshops.

As a visual jouranlist, Schultz often focuses on community journalism and in-depth multimedia projects. In 2019, she collaborated with journalists Corinne Chin, Tyrone Beason and Nina Shapiro on Beyond the Border, a series of immersive stories exploring asylum, deportation and women's human rights, supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation. The visual storytelling project Disappearing Daughters, which interweaves poetry, reporting, photography and documentary film, earned an Online Journalism Award for feature reporting October 2020. Best of the West also honored the online presentation of the Beyond The Border series during 2020. Schultz and video editor Corinne Chin worked on the Beyond the Border series as an IWMF Adelante Fellows and Pulitzer Center grantees.

Schultz often collaborates with The Seattle Times' video department, including films honored in 2019 Best of Photojournalism's Online Video, Storytelling and Innovation. Schultz also worked on the team that produced Under Our Skin, an interactive documentary exploring the words we use – to talk about race in the United States. The Seattle Asian American Film Festival featured Schultz and Corinne Chin's short film, Mother-daughter powerlifters 'don't care what people have to say'.

In 2017, Pictures of the Year International honored Schultz with an award of excellence for Newspaper Photographer of the Year. Her video work with Corinne Chin won second place for Individual Multimedia Portfolio in NPPA’s 2017 Best of Photojournalism Awards, as well as an honorable mention for Cliff Edom’s “New America Award.” Schultz’s work has been recognized by the Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, National Edward R. Murrow Awards, The Alexia Foundation, Society of Professional Journalists, and was a finalist for the 2010 and 2013 ASNE Community Service Photojournalism award. She also was part of The Seattle Times’ 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning team for Breaking News Reporting.

Schultz is member of The Seattle Times Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, co-founder of NW Photojournalism and enjoys participating in mentorship programs throughout the country. In her free time, she enjoys gravel biking, snowboarding, roller skating and learning Spanish.

PRESS:

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

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

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

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

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

Nieman Reports - Investigating the Housing Crisis

Portraits of Homelesness- Seattle Channel

Portraits of Homelessness - Q13 Fox

Swim Ballet - NPPA Magazine

30 Days - Q13 Fox

Jack's Journey - The Image, Deconstructed