I took this picture of my youth group in Colimes, Ecuador after the World AIDS Day march on December 1, 2010. All of the youth include in this picture are peer educators who worked with hundreds of youth in their community in HIV prevention and...
Dina Davis holds the stickers she designed to accompany informational pamphlets for World AIDS Day. The campaign was initiated and carried out by the Peace Corps Paraguay AIDS Taskforce.
In this photo I am showing off the t-shirt I designed for the Paraguay Peace Corps HIV/AIDS Taskforce. I am standing in my garden in the town of San Miguel, Paraguay. Sales of the t-shirt support the program. It was quite popular. "Cuida tu Amor"...
Me and my students celebrating Novruz holiday at Khizi City High School in Khizi City, Azerbaijan. I am proudly wearing my jacket with the Peace Corps logo on it. To me, Peace Corps Service was an amazing way of representing America abroad.
Dancing to Azeri Music at one of our elders' birthday. Getting integrated into the host community is an a great way to becoming a productive and an effective volunteer.
This photo was taken in the village of Dihovo where all of PC Macedonia teamed up to help with a trash cleanup. We cleaned for 2 days and picked up over 30 tons of trash from the river and its banks! We pulled everything imaginable out of this...
I took this picture in January 2008 in Kazakhstan. The Moroz (Frost) in Kazakhstan could get down to deathly temperatures, but at the same time it could be one of the most amazing and beautiful scenery to encounter. When the Moroz would set in on...
My host family and I celebrating Thanksgiving. I was honored that my host family bought 2 turkeys for Thanksgiving. I lived with host family for the duration of Peace Corps. They were gracious to me.
Very few volunteers in Kazakhstan ventured out to the remote and distant Aral Sea but 3 of my friends and I took the journey in March 2009. Not much is left of what used to be one of the largest inland seas in the world. The trip to what is left...
I took this photo during my first few weeks teaching 3rd and 4th grade elementary school in Belize. Our indigenous K'ekchi Maya students were making homemade flags celebrating Belize's 25th year as an independent nation.