Mindy Schauer

Mindy Schauer is an award-winning photojournalist for the Orange County Register. As a general-interest news photographer, she documents everyone and everything, from poverty in the hollows of West Virginia, to sports heroes and celebrities in Hollywood. She has covered Hurricane Andrew, California wildfires, Pope Francis, four presidents, and religious outreach in Rwanda — not to mention puppies, schoolkids and everyday life in her community. Mindy is a two-time Marine Corps Heritage Foundation award winner and ranks among the top photographers in the National Press Photographers Association’s Western Region each year. Mindy’s Pulitzer-nominated work documenting the life of a teen mom and her children hangs in the Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas. And when Mindy’s own daughter, Jenna, was born, Mindy photographed the birth herself for a feature in the Register. Mindy is a graduate of the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Before joining the Register, she worked at the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times and Orlando Sentinel.