Here you can enjoy a sampling of the work that has come out of my global adventures.

Website Redesign: Life Biosciences

x2! First redesign in April 2020; second launched in December 2021. Both redesign processes included an evaluation of messaging, overall branding and creative direction, and content development. View the website here >

Website launched in December 2021

Life+Biosciences+website_new+2.jpg — Website launched in April 2020

Life Biosciences website_old.PNG — Original website when I joined Life Biosciences

#ByHerSide

In 2018, alongside a graphic designer, I led the creation and launch of the #ByHerSide campaign, an integrated visibility and fundraising campaign with refreshed imagery and messaging. View the By Her Side microsite >

When a woman or girl has her community by her side, she has a brighter future. She can better advocate for her right to: pursue an education, build a livelihood, and decide whether and when she wants to marry or have children. We support her. We believe in her.

Kenya

On the shores of Lake Victoria sits the tiny village of Bondo. Here I met the Odongos, a beautiful family talking the talk and walking the walk of the benefits of Pathfinder’s population, health, and environment program.

Rosalida and Evans talk openly to their daughters, Mercy and Alice, about family planning, hygiene, and the environment. They are two of many who will help create an environment where young women can make informed decisions about their futures. Women and girls just like them are making choices that will affect their future and that of their family and communities.

Family planning. Proper sanitation. Clean and safe water. Tree planting. They’re all part of Pathfinder’s population, health & environment approach. Because people don’t lead their lives in silos. Everything is connected. The Odongos know this better than many. Together, they turned planning into a way of life—from planning out their crops to deciding whether and when to have children. (video shot by David Cooper & produced in partnership with Kelly Ramundo)

Mozambique

A 5-day sprint trip to Inhambane, Mozambique to spend time with Marcia, a rockstar peer educator trained by Pathfinder. This video screened in the Official Selection at the 2019 Women Deliver Film Festival.

Uploaded by Pathfinder International on 2018-06-14.

Marcia is an activist, one of the roughly 250 young men & women supported by Pathfinder throughout Mozambique as a first line of defense for students who may not have access to crucial information on their sexual and reproductive health at home. (video shot by David Cooper & produced in partnership with Kelly Ramundo)

Website Redesign: Pathfinder International

This year-long redesign process included selecting & managing the web development firm, leading the collaborative internal input & review, and overseeing content development and image selection for the entire site.

Original website when I joined Pathfinder International

Bangladesh

In May 2016, I spent 10 days touring Bangladesh, where Pathfinder currently implements the NGO Health Service Delivery Project.

Uploaded by Pathfinder International on 2017-01-04.

We met Fatima & her family in her home, in the slums of Paghar outside of Dhaka. Within a few minutes, the electricity cut out. After some creative thinking (using a child's toy lamp and an iPhone flashlight), the interview went on. Here's her story.

Infographic: A real team effort, this infographic (designed by Simmons Ardell) shows the real importance of this work. It's saving women's lives.

Mozambique

In July 2015, I took my first trip for Pathfinder to the east African country of Mozambique. After 24 hours of travel, we arrived. And we didn't stop working until we left 10 days later. We spent half the trip in and around the capital city of Maputo; the other half was spent in the northern province of Nampula.

Why is family planning important? Judite, a passionate activists in Mozambique, explains!

Videos: We met two rockstar activistas outside Maputo who walk door-to-door and discuss important issues like domestic violence and family planning. They were two of the most charismatic women I've met, so we put them on camera. Watch Judite (above)+ Lucia talk about the power of family planning.

Blog: A short blog ghostwritten for Nina, my colleague in Maputo, on the power of female condoms.

Afghanistan

I traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan in September 2013 after a two-day stay in Dubai, UAE. Most of my trip was spent in the dusty city of Kabul, but I was lucky enough to take a domestic flight to Masar-e-Sharif, a small town in northern Afghanistan that boasts relaxed security measures—a welcome change from Kabul. I was there working for Creative Associates International, who runs a USAID-funded vocational training program to boost the country's private sector.

The Afghanistan Workforce Development Program, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, seeks to increase job placements and wages for 25,000 Afghans through access to quality training, as well as job placement support services. During its four years, AWDP will provide job opportunities and promotions to Afghans in six major cities: Kabul, Herat, Mazar, Jalalabad, Kunduz and Kandahar. With the first cycle of grants completed in September 2013, the program trained more than 9,000 Afghans, and placed or promoted more than 5,000.

Video + Feature Stories: I produced a more general video on the AWDP (featuring a very shy electrician) and three accompanying feature stories.

A 2-minute video on Kamila Sidiqi, the subject of the 2011 New York Times Bestselling book The Dressmaker of Khair Khana.

Blog: The people of Afghanistan were incredibly inspiring. Here's a story of a young woman I felt immediately attached to—and still keep in touch with today.

Blog: I was on my toes for much of this trip, alert and ready in case anything happened. Luckily, nothing did. And I left Afghanistan realizing that even in a war zone, life goes on.

Ethiopia

In 2011, I traveled to the Central and Southern Rift Valleys of Ethiopia as a field producer, alongside videographer Chris Overbeck and photographer David Snyder. Counterpart International implemented the USAID-funded Sustainable Tourism Alliance that enhanced biodiversity conservation and economic development.

Residents of marginalized communities near beautiful national parks have always been confronted with a dilemma: how to feed their families without damaging Mother Nature. An innovative program called the Ethiopian Sustainable Tourism Alliance (ESTA) has provided villagers with solutions – and the results are remarkable, for the people and the parks. Villagers organize themselves into committees, identify tourism opportunities and create sustainable enterprises that benefit from these national and international travelers. Supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development, ESTA is organized by Counterpart International and several local Ethiopian NGOs. Having built a relationship of trust with villagers, ESTA was able to add a parallel program to raise awareness of AIDS, supported by the U.S. President’s Plan for AIDS Relief. It, too, relies on members of the community. Volunteer peer educators teach their neighbors and coworkers about the disease and how it spreads, and where to turn for counseling and testing.

This video showcases the success of Counterpart's conversation and tourism work in Ethiopia.

Honduras

Right behind Afghanistan in terms of dangerous trips for me is Honduras. Not many know, but every year, two Honduran cities—Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula—fight for the title of "Most Dangerous City in the World." In 2013, I traveled to both of these cities as a videographer and field producer for Counterpart International.

Counterpart's five-year Impactos project takes on corruption, violence and crime by improving communities’ ability to collaborate, find common solutions, and advocate for change.

Videos: I created two shorter videos profiling two of our partner organizations in Honduras: Fundación Hondureña de Rehabilitación e Integración del Limitado and Assistencia Legal Anticorrupcion.

Senegal

In 2011, I traveled to eastern Senegal to document a USDA-funded food security program through Counterpart International that fed 22,000 children every day. I absolutely loved this trip—it was rugged, remote, and a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

As part of the Food for Education program, funded by the U.S. Agriculture Department, Counterpart has trained community health workers and rehabilitated a number of health huts that give people easy access to healthcare and guidance.

I produced a video showing how Counterpart trained community health workers and rehabilitated a number of health huts that gave people easy access to healthcare and guidance.

Counterpart began its work in northern Senegal in 2001, in an area where no other development organization would go. Now 10 years later, Counterpart provides a comprehensive approach to food security - keeping children in school, teaching communities the basics of a nutritious diet, and offering a sustainable long-term solution.

Matam is one of the biggest areas of Senegal and has the highest acute malnutrition rates in the country. This video shows how Counterpart's project is combating this through the training of teachers and parent-teacher assocations on nutrition and agriculture.