Brittany Greeson

About

Brittany Greeson is an associate communications officer focused on visual storytelling. She has lived in Detroit for nearly a decade and is originally from the mountains of North Carolina and the rolling hills of Western Kentucky.

Greeson studied photojournalism and sociology at Western Kentucky University and was an international student at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in 2014. As a student, she completed photojournalism internships at The Oregonian, The Roanoke Times, The Flint Journal, The Washington Post and the San Antonio Express-News.

Greeson fell in love with Michigan, and specifically the tenacious community of Flint, in 2015 as the photography intern at The Flint Journal. While there, she began documenting the devastating impact of Flint’s water crisis on residents. In 2016, Greeson returned to Flint to help spearhead visual coverage of the water crisis for global publications like The New York Times and continued doing so until the 10-year anniversary of the crisis.

Before joining the Mott Foundation in 2025, she spent 10 years as an independent documentary photographer collaborating with both legacy and grassroots newsrooms on topics ranging from environment and education to democracy and divestment. She is also a proud contributor to The Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project, a nonprofit visual historical archive for her home state of Kentucky.

When she is not behind a camera, she enjoys cooking, traveling, hiking, live music and spending time with friends. She is the lucky pet parent to three dogs and two cats, and, by chance, she and her husband have helped and fostered several more Detroit dogs and cats.