MaKayla Hart is an assistant photo editor on the Global Photo Desk at The Associated Press, currently based in Los Angeles. Previously, she spent a year with the incredible photo staff at the Minnesota Star Tribune as a visual producing intern. Her editing work there led to her placing third in NPPA’s 2025 Best of Photojournalism Local Picture Editor of the Year category.
She graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with degrees in photojournalism and sociology. She once spent an entire disposable camera roll on pictures of prairie dogs during a road trip out West and thinks about this and her first digital camera (purple and pocket-sized) regularly and with fondness.
You can reach her at makaylalhart@gmail.com.