Becky Lebowitz Hanger is the operations manager and photographers' chief at The New York Times. Her work has been honored at Pictures of the Year International, and she was photo editor for Josh Haner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning project after the Boston Marathon bombing. She’s been involved in the online visual innovations for which the NYT is famous since joining the staff in 2004.

Becky earned her master's degree from the University of Missouri after conducting her masters project at the Hartford Courant, where she researched and watched how photo editors work. She later worked as a photo editor at The Palm Beach Post under the guidance of the late, great photo editor Mark Edelson.

This is Becky’s third MPW as faculty. However, she did crew MPW.50 in Boonville in 1998. Her job that year was scanning negatives.

Dennis Dimick has been a journalist for more than 40 years. He has worked as a newspaper photographer and reporter at newspapers in the Pacific Northwest, and from 1978-80 was a picture editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal. For 35 years he was a picture editor at the National Geographic Society, serving as the magazine’s environment editor for a decade.

Dennis has been on faculty at the Missouri Photo Workshop for 24 years, and in 2013 he received the NPPA’s Charles M. Sprague Award for service to photojournalism. A former board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, he has team-taught environmental and science journalism since 2018 at the University of Oregon with UO journalism professor and fellow MPW faculty member Torsten Kjellstrand.