Brad Zweernik

Brad is the photo editor at Earthjustice, the nation's leading nonprofit environmental law organization, where photography serves as a powerful tool for advocacy. Earthjustice works with partners and clients across the country to protect public health, preserve public lands and wildlife, advance clean energy, and combat climate change. Brad works with a 70-person communication team to help tell those stories visually, from frontline communities affected by pollution to threatened wildlife in the natural world.


He brings more than two decades of experience to the role, including eight years as a freelance photographer and 15 years as a photojournalist and photo editor at community newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Kansas City, with a stint at the News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. Brad is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and now works remotely from his hometown of Springfield, Missouri, where he lives with his wife and young son.