Los Angeles, California

Lester Sloan has worked in journalism as a photographer, writer, commentator, and cameraman. His career began in Detroit, where he was employed at WJBK-TV, a CBS affiliate, as a cameraman/reporter. He joined Newsweek magazine in 1970, for what became a 25-year career as a staff photographer, responsible for covering the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America. He has covered six presidents and two trips with the Pope, as well as the 1984 winter games in Sarajevo and summer games in Los Angeles. In 1976 he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, where he studied German and the history of southern Africa. In addition to his work for Newsweek, Lester worked as a contributing editor for Emerge magazine and as a commentator for National Public Radio's Weekend Edition. He was a contributor to My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience (May 2004, Sterling), published as part of the Voices of Civil Rights project.

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