Briana Sanchez is a visual journalist based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is currently a photo editor at The Boston Globe, previously serving as the Director of Photography at The Austin American-Statesman. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor’s in journalism and is a Chips Quinn scholar.

Sanchez spent the first few years of her career working as a photojournalist at small dailies in Minnesota. She then moved to South Dakota and spent time covering indigenous issues, daily news and high school and college sports. In 2019, Sanchez had the opportunity to return home to El Paso, where she worked as a photojournalist at the El Paso Times, covering the border. She then transitioned into photo editing and served as the Director of Photography at the Austin American-Statesman, which was recognized as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for its coverage of the Uvalde mass shooting.

Currently, Sanchez is a photo editor at the Boston Globe.