Photography has long played a significant role in my life, teaching me as much about myself as the people and places I have photographed. A camera is my passport to document the human experience.
 

The last two decades have allowed me to photograph everything from portraits to political upheavals.

In 1999, I began teaching photography at the university level and working as a photojournalist.  I proceeded to shoot for individual clients, press agencies and non-governmental organizations. Ten years later, I expanded my repertoire to architecture, portraits, food, events and lifestyle photography. 

My images have garnered awards from the Associated Press, The William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the National Press Photographers Association. I am fortunate to have photographs featured in publications ranging from U.S. News and World Report, The New York Times, Oprah.com, USA Today and Stern Magazine. The National Press Photographers Association selected a number of my images from East Africa as part of its Women in Photojournalism International traveling exhibit. As a result, the McKenna Museum of Art in New Orleans purchased my work for the museum's permanent collection.

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When not behind my cameras, I can be found upside down on my yoga mat, tending to my urban flock of chickens, indulging in documentaries and overindulging Tat + Cha Cha, my precocious felines.