Kyndell Harkness is the Star Tribune’s Assistant Managing Editor of Diversity/Community. Kyndell has worked at the Star Tribune for 20 years as a photographer and most recently, as a photo editor, coordinating coverage of breaking news such as the death of Prince and protests of police shootings as well as local events such as the Super Bowl and Final Four. For 15 years, she has been a photo instructor for high school journalists participating in an annual program called J Camp. Kyndell also has led the Minnesota News Photographers Association.

Kyndell is part of the staff of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, MN which was awarded The 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting for its urgent, authoritative and nuanced coverage of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis and of the reverberations that followed.