international

Shared Origins

  Zoe and Tsehaye were born in Ethiopia and adopted by Lory and Sonya, a lesbian couple living in the U.S. When the girls are in middle school, Lory takes them to Ethiopia to explore their heritage. Although her same-sex partnership has been accepted within her community for over 20 years, Lory chooses to keep …

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United Nations Pastoralist Gathering – Ethiopia

The UN OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs) Pastoralist Communication Initiative works with pastoralists in the Horn of Africa to foster communication and innovation. I was fortunate enough to photograph one of their gatherings in Yabello, Ethiopia. Four hundred pastoralists from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Somaliland, Puntland, Djibouti and Sudan will met to discuss the …

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Literacy through Photography – Tanzania

In 2008 and 2009 I served as the On-The-Ground Coordinator for the Literacy Through Photography (LTP) Tanzania program through Duke Engage. Each summer my colleague Katie Hyde and I took eight students to Arusha, Tanzania for two months where we trained teachers using LTP’s participatory education methodology and taught photography and writing lessons to children in local schools.

Guatemala

In preparation for my graduate work, I spent two months in Guatemala studying Spanish and living with two lovely host families in Antigua and Quetzaltenango (Xela). The language immersion I had during this experience improved my ability to work with the North Carolina Latino community on my graduate thesis, Dreams Delayed, a multimedia documentary project …

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