Our Mission

Deep Indigo Collective is a nonprofit, independent news organization committed to the use of visual storytelling as an essential tool in reporting on the most urgent issue of our lifetime.

Our mission is to provide truthful visual documentation informing discussion around climate change and environmental issues. In an era of diminished local reporting resources, Deep Indigo Collective provides visual context as the climate crisis becomes pronounced within news-vulnerable communities.

The formation of the nonprofit counters the extensive loss of reliable visual content across the US media market at a time when images drive web-based news and social media platforms. The nonprofit’s investment in community-focused visual storytelling across the United States offers our partners a powerful tool in delivering far-reaching content to audiences.

Through these efforts, we address the shortcomings left behind by the loss of staff photographers, videographers and editors from visual departments in US newsrooms, in addition to industry-wide reductions to coverage areas, editorials resources and budgets.

Deep Indigo is proud to be part of the entrepreneurial community endeavoring to keep local media a steadfast communication service.

We are based in Waxahachie, Texas.   

Andy Jacobsohn / Founder & Executive Director

Andy was impassioned by the important role of local storytelling as a staff photographer at Newsday and The Dallas Morning News. He covered news events and topics ranging from Hurricane Harvey, tornadoes in East Texas and political campaigns to sustainable food production, fragility of rural healthcare, education and gun violence. Andy also held photo editing roles with Newsweek/Daily Beast and Major League Baseball. Prior to beginning his career, Andy studied visual journalism at the Nicholson School of Communication at the University of Central Florida.

Andy grew up in South Florida’s coastal communities and with an appreciation of his natural surroundings, areas now increasingly vulnerable as climate change progresses. He was raised exploring and fishing the Everglades to the west, the Gulf Stream to the east, Florida Bay and the Keys to the south and Lake Okeechobee to the North. Andy is disheartened that his children and grandchildren will be unlikely to experience these ecological wonders in a similar way.

Lucy Hale / Secretary

Lucy Hale most recently served as the President and CEO of the EcoTarium after serving in leadership roles at cultural institutions in Texas for thirteen years. Prior to moving to the Worcester area, Lucy served as the executive director of the Trinity River Audubon Center, one of the National Audubon Society’s flagship nature centers in Dallas, Texas. 

Lucy grew up in Medford, Massachusetts and earned her B.A. in art history from Boston College. Growing up, it was common to find her with her parents bird-watching down on the Mystic River, which was just a couple of blocks from her childhood home. As a child she was a frequent visitor of museums, and her career began at the Museum of Science in Boston, where she worked for 13 years prior to moving to Texas.

In Texas, Lucy served as the Director of School Programs and helped open the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in downtown Dallas after serving for five years as the education manager at the Dallas Zoo and Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park. Prior to her role at the zoo, she served as the Live Animal Biologist at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. How Lucy got to Texas is a long story about a wedding, the Boston Red Sox, and love at first sight.

Lucy proudly serves on the board of Deep Indigo Collective as an honorary board member of the Informal Science Education Association. She has also served on the board of the Association of Science and Technology Centers, Village Tech Schools, and the Worcester Cultural Coalition.

David Guzman / Treasurer

David joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2016 as a photo editor and is now its director of photography. His accomplishments at the Review-Journal include the establishment of innovative systems of producing and delivering content, the digitizing of nearly 50,000 historic images and generating revenue from photo resales. Before moving to Las Vegas, David was a photo editor at The Dallas Morning News. He was recognized for his editing talents by the Picture of the Year International competition, the Edward R. Murrow Award and the Lone Star Emmy Awards.

The last 14 years in the newspaper industry has introduced David to countless stories and subjects. He advocates for the local news industry’s readiness to cover the most important story in our lifetime: the effects of climate change and its impact on communities. Since their move to Las Vegas in 2016, David and his family fulfill a passion for the outdoors by traveling throughout the Southwest. Together, they are proud to have visited many of Nevada’s state parks and most of the western National Parks. David and his wife are instilling a sense of respect and love for nature in their children with the belief that future generations will be responsible for protecting the environment.