Zach D Roberts
New York City and Anchorage, Alaska
Zach D. Roberts is a photo/video journalist who's work has been seen in the The Village Voice, Observer, The Guardian Online, TheNation.com, Al Jazeera America and many more.
Since 2006 he's been working as a researcher/producer for Greg Palast he produced several films and news pieces for BBC Newsnight. Zach edited Palasts and RFK Jr's Steal Back Your Vote -which had nearly 100,000 downloads and print copies distributed throughout the country. He was also the lead researcher for the explosive investigation into Mitt Romney's auto-bailout profits in The Nation Magazine – "Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza." Recently he photographed and led the investigation into Kris Kobach's voter purge program 'Crosscheck' for Al Jazeera America.
Zach has been detained in New Orleans by Exxon Mobil security, threatened with arrest over 3 dozen times by the NYPD and was finally arrested during the #D17 OWS Protests – and had that arrest overturned.
Currently he's a freelnace photographer and writer in New York.
Follow him on twitter.com/zdroberts, facebook.com/zdroberts and on his blog zdroberts.com