Zachary Linhares is a visual intern for the Kansas City Star. Before joining The Star in 2023, he covered firearm violence and homelessness in Missouri as a freelance photojournalist. He was part of a team that won first place for Multi-Media Reporting in the 2022 Missouri Press Foundation Better Newspaper Contest. Linhares was also part of a team that was recognized as a finalist for the Insight Award for Visual Journalism - Medium Division for three stories on homelessness in Columbia, Mo. Linhares is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he studied journalism.