Melissa Harris is editor-at-large of Aperture Foundation, where she has worked for more than twenty-five years, including as editor-in-chief of award-winning Aperture magazine from 2002 to 2012. Harris has also edited more than forty books for Aperture. As a curator, Harris has organized photography exhibitions for venues worldwide, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow; the Triennale di Milano; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; and Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan. Harris teaches at New York University in the Tisch Photography and Imaging department, and occasionally at Yale University. She served on New York City's Community Board 5 for several years, and is a trustee of the John Cage Trust.
