About Me

I have the best job in the world.

I make pictures, film video, tell stories, meet interesting people and travel the globe. My passion is social issues related to hunger and poverty. I aim to capture real moments and honest emotion. There’s nothing else I’d rather do. Work doesn’t even feel like work – it’s all just life!

I’m currently the multimedia manager at DC-based NGO Bread for the World, where I’ve had the privilege of photographing women in Haiti lifting themselves out of poverty with the help of a microfinance organization. I’ve photographed cocoa harvesting in Liberia and filmed farmers in rural Mexico. I’ve produced stories on immigrants in North Carolina and talked with farmers in Appalachia. I’ve filmed and photographed so many farmers and agricultural experts that you’d think some of their knowledge would have rubbed off on me, but I still struggle to keep little pots of herbs alive.

Before becoming a multimedia guru, I worked as a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires in New York and Seoul. I still love to write. If I were to return to business reporting I would want to cover derivatives and foreign exchange, my two favorite beats. Before Dow Jones, I worked at USA Weekend magazine, where I interviewed a lot of celebrities by phone.

I graduated with an M.A. in photojournalism from the University of Missouri and a B.A. in communications from American University. I spent one year in Seoul on a Fulbright fellowship, which I used to document the lives of North Korea defectors adjusting to life in South Korea. I speak advanced Korean and basic Spanish.