Photograph by Naomi Shon
Leonor is the Deputy Photo Director at Bloomberg Businessweek.
She has also worked at New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler,
GQ, Men's Vogue, Money Magazine, and More. She was the photo director of the all-female magazine, Mary Review.
Her work in these magazines has won her awards from The Society of Publication Designers, American Photography, Photo District News, American Society of Magazine Editors, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, POYi, and more.
She has served on juries for PDN Photo Annual, Photoville, Latin American Fotografía and ASME.
She commissioned and produced images for @alittlelifebook and manages all the A Little Life social media for author Hanya Yanagihara. She has worked on original photography projects for novelists Ben Dolnick, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and a photo archival project with author, Maaza Mengiste. Most recently, she worked on a campaign for the independent film, Mayday.
Leonor has a weekly newsletter with recommendations on what to read, watch, listen to, places to go, things to see, and internet happenings, all framed by a personal essay.
From 2017-2021, Leave it to Leonor included an interview series where various dynamic women of note are each asked the same questions. Interviewees included: Roxane Gay, Tracy Clayton, Ashley C. Ford, Doree Shafrir, Eleanor Kagan, Lolita Cros, Brittany Luse, Yuko Shimizu, Stacia Brown and Dodai Stewart. The women in the series all hail from different vocational disciplines and have included illustrators, artists, writers, producers and podcasters.
Through the non-profit Chicas Poderosas' New Ventures Lab, she was a mentor for Malquerida, a Spanish-language digital project written, edited, produced and illustrated entirely by women.
Leonor is a born and raised New Yorker from the Upper West Side who lives in Brooklyn with her daughter.