Cara A. Finnegan

Cara Finnegan is a writer, teacher, book coach, and historian of photography. Her latest book is Photographic Presidents: Making History From Daguerreotype to Digital. Finnegan's ideas about photography have been featured in a variety of publications in the fields of Communication and U.S. History, as well as in popular media outlets such as The New York Times, CBS, BBC, Chicago Public Radio, and Vox. Since 2018 she has co-hosted the webcast Chatting The Pictures, which is produced by Reading the Pictures, a non-profit dedicated to the analysis of news photos and media imagery. As a book coach, she works with academics who want to write non-academic stories.