Aaron Huey

Aaron Huey is a National Geographic photographer and Founder + Creative Director of Amplifier.org. As a photographer, Huey has created over 40 stories for National Geographic magazine, including several cover stories, and is leading new media projects inside the brand from VR and AR to game world spaces. Huey's 2019 Bear Ears Virtual Museum VR experience won the Webby for Best VR Interactive Design and is currently being made into Augmented Reality lessons to teach pre-Colonial history in K-12 schools across the country. Huey's story-building approach has been refined through three fellowships at Stanford University in journalism and new media studies, primarily at the Hasso Plattner School of Design (aka the d.School), where he was a Knight Fellow, a Media Experiments Fellow, and then a Starling Lab Fellow focused on data integrity. Drawing on the human-centered design process in both the analog and digital world, Huey has evolved his storytelling into many projects beyond traditional photography, including the evolution of his art and advocacy nonprofit Amplifier, where he created the global art phenomenon called "We The People" out of his backyard with a small team in Seattle.