Jessie Wender is a Photo Editor at The New Yorker. She is primarily responsible for commissioning and producing the magazine’s portraiture, and photography for the arts and culture features and for the “Goings On About Town” section. She also writes for the magazine’s Photo Booth blog. Prior to working at The New Yorker, she worked in the photo departments of Esquire and Time Inc., and before entering publishing she worked for the photo agency VII, the Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles and as the producer of Photo LA.
