Engineering@Northeastern Magazine: Cover and Feature Story

Last Beach Day for Awhile

Some fun shakeit photo pics with the family!!!

can't help myself...I have to post images of my niece!!!

This is my adorable niece Sami Mae...so cute! We had a little modeling session in the backyard.

Ask the Experts. Boston Wedding Magazine

This was a fun assignment photographing people in the wedding industry and learning all their insider tidbits. Thanks everyone for such a fun day!

I'm Home in Beantown

It's always hard to leave Hawaii and I feel like I have years of editing to do from this wonderful trip, but I can't wait to post all the images!

On a super happy note, I was selected to be the artist in resident at Kalani later this year, so I will be returning to the Big Island to work on a few different projects, especially stories about female farmers.

In the meantime, I'm in Boston with a smile.

Best of Boston 2011

Yoga at the Point, Big Island HI

I was super pumped when Christina asked me to photograph her doing yoga. Here's one of my favorites from the group! If anyone is looking for an awesome yoga teacher in Guam feel free to call Christina...she will be there in about a month! Mahalo!

Aloha from Hawaii: The Ginger Farm

Hawaii in August

So, I will be in Hawaii for all of August! I can't wait to go back to the Big Island and start working on some photo projects, yay!!!

A Fun Feature for AirTran Magazine

A few favorites from Hawaii

I totally miss Hawaii.

Back to Beantown

So for the past few months I have been living on Big Island, Hawaii doing yoga and loving life. The island is absolutely amazing and I can't wait to get back there to start a personal documentary about 'Big Island Love'. While there I photographed for National Health Service Corp on the island of Oahu. I'll have pics to post soon, but in the meantime, I thought these little polaroid images would make us all wish for warmer days and melt the snow outside!!!

Smithsonian Cover! May 2010

Food Security in Zambia

Since it’s summer and I have gardening and tomatoes on my mind, I am going to share a little story about food security. Last month, I was on assignment with AED for two weeks in Lusaka, Zambia. One of their partner organizations, FANTA, creates policies about food security and distribution of crops amongst locals. I was able to visit a couple of medium size farms where the owners are able to profit from selling product to markets, but also self-sustain by generating food for themselves. Zambian’s have a

60% + unemployment rate, so being able to eat a nutritious meal everyday is a hard and expensive task.

A woman named Anita Mwemba, a hard working and dedicated farmer has helped her family climb out of poverty by producing vegetables. Her 13 yr. old daughter, Luyando Mwemba helps her mom on the farm when she is not in school. When asked what she likes most about being part of a farming family, she replied, “Eating and having food available to them and thankfulness for being able to attend school on the farming income”.

The produce is then sold in bulk to ‘Mamas’ that work at the Market and sell the individual crops for slightly more income. The common Zambian, buys dried foods and large quantities to keep the price down. FANTA is working on policies to help this process and lower prices.