In my nine-year career, I've been lucky enough to travel the world. Here you can enjoy a sampling of the work that's come out of my global adventures.
Mozambique
A 5-day sprint trip to Inhambane, Mozambique to spend time with Marcia, a rockstar peer educator trained by Pathfinder.
Video: 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)
Bangladesh
Video: 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 just how important our work is. It's saving women's lives.
In May 2016, I spent 10 days touring Bangladesh, where Pathfinder currently implements the NGO Health Service Delivery Project.
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.
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 + 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.
Video: A 2-minute video on Kamila Sidiqi, the subject of the 2011 New York Times Bestselling book The Dressmaker of Khair Khana.
Video + Feature Stories: I produced a more general video on the AWDP (featuring a very shy electrician) and three accompanying feature stories.
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.
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.
Video: 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.
Video: 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.
Video: 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.