In Fall 2008, photo from working in the peanut field with my friends from the village. I'm wearing a Peace Corps shirt, UC Berkeley hat and lots of dirt from the fiend.
A Fijian family lives below me. They have two young sons, and there is another boy the age of their sons that lives next door. When I am outside doing laundry or reading in my hammock they'll come bug me, its kind of silly because they speak little...
I took this photo in Toufestelt village near my site in Ain Leuh, Ifrane Province, Morocco during the July 4, 2011 celebration that I shared with them. I was working with a group of 12 lakeside high school students from Seatle, Wa. who were there...
On May 25, 2010, in the small Georgian village of Kvibisi, our Business and Social Entrepreneurship group conducted an Art Day for children in the village. In small groups, the kids used art supplies and natural elements like twigs and berries to...
I took this photo in August 2011 in Ecuador at the famous "Poncho Plaza." This is largely an indigenous community that successfully markets its traditional Andean textiles and goods throughout the world. This photo depicts the Panama hat, a symbol...
This picture was taken at Toufestelt village near Ain Leuh in the middle Atlas mountain of Morocco. I was working with a group of 12 Lakeside high school students from Seatle, Washington who were there on service training in July, 2011. The...
At an English camp in Kazakhstan during the summer of 2011, a group of six Volunteers were teaching students the very basics of the English language. During one of the days, we taught the students different articles of clothing. One of the...
This photo was taken on August 30th, 2010 in Kryve Ozero, Mykolayivska Oblast in Ukraine, just a few days after my 26th birthday. It was my last summer at site and I decided to throw an American style birthday party. In Ukraine, birthdays are...
It was a warm day in Kazakhstan, marking the end of a long, cold winter and the beginning of a much needed spring. The thirteen of us had been in our training village for only eleven days when we were summoned from our language classes to...
As usual, in rural El Salvador most of the day is spent just visiting your neighbors and drinking coffee. A tight community where everyone knows everyone, this photo was taken on a regular afternoon, where the neighbors just kept coming.
Photo taken for me and a small indigenous child (the tribe is called Coris I believe) in the rain forest outside of Santa Marta, Columbia. This photo was taken on a hike to the Ciudad Perdidos.
A traditional home made of lava rock at the base of Mt. Fogo, an active volcano, in the town of Chã das Caldeiras, located on the island of Fogo in the Republic of Cape Verde. This photo was taken at sunset on January 19th, 2011.
In a small village outside of Essaouira, Morocco in 2010 a small boy greats us at the local hanout (shop). He offers us a ride on his donkey in exchange for candy.