Samantha Madar is a photojournalist from small-town St. Johns, Michigan. She was the Photo Editor for Central Michigan Life for Spring 2014, and a photo intern at Central Michigan University of Communications for a year in 2015. Madar had four photojournalism internships; Jackson Citizen Patriot/MLive, PennLive, Toledo Blade and the Columbus Dispatch. Madar graduated from Central Michigan University in 2017 with a Bachelors of Science in Photojournalism. In 2019 she accepted an offer to be a staff photojournalist for the Standard-Examiner in Ogden, Utah. In 2020 Madar became a photo and video journalist for USA TODAY- Wisconsin based Wausau, Wisconsin, and in 2021 was promoted to Green Bay to work for the Green Bay Press-Gazette/USA TODAY-Wisconsin. Today she is currently employed by the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, Wisconsin.