WES POPE

Wes Pope grew up in Auburn, Washington. He learned to love the open road on long summer trips around the West in the family's propane-powered van-a passion that has never faded.

The sixth-generation northwesterner turned a University of Washington undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology into a newspaper career that took him from Washington to Alaska, Texas, Illinois, Indiana, New Mexico, Colorado, New York, Arizona, and California, working as a photojournalist for the Tacoma News Tribune, the Santa Fe New Mexican, the Rocky Mountain News, the Chicago Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others.

Adding motion pictures to his story-teller's skill set, Pope earned a master's degree in Documentary Film and History at Syracuse University. He has documented the work of climate scientists on the Greenland ice sheet, co-founded Story Arc, a cinematic journalism workshop, and shared his knowledge of the art and technology of visual storytelling in classrooms and workshops across the country.

Pope is currently Co-Director of the Multimedia Journalism master's program in the School of Journalism and Communications at the University of Oregon, Portland.