This photo was taken with two little girls during a vigil I organized with the Red Cross to remember those who have died of SIDA (AIDS) and to raise awareness of the disease. The sign, translated in English, reads: "AIDS isn't just a disease:...
The basketball court was a central feature of Neijiang Teachers' College in 1998. Basketball was almost as popular as ping-pong. Neijiang, Sichuan, China.
As a teacher trainer volunteer, I taught at a teachers' college that was in a village across the river from the city of Neijiang. Taking the boat across the river was often faster than taking the minibus.
These children attend one of the few government-run centers in the country catering to families with severe economic hardships and children of working mothers. Just before Christmas 2010, they made these decorations to bring home and spread the...
This was one of two classroom buildings that English teachers taught in at Neijiang Teachers' College, Sichuan, China. There was no air conditioning and no heat in 1998. The students below are reading the newspaper in a glass case.
This picture reflects my happiest and most memorable experience of my Peace Corps service in East Timor. On an almost nightly basis, the kids from my neighborhood in Manatuto would come over to my porch and we would color, dance, and joke around. ...
I took this photo on the opening day of the public Library in our town Yuquyty, Paraguay. The youth in this photo were all crowded around the computer looking at photos we had downloaded of the community. We were able to get two computers for the...
This is the road leading down to the Tuo River. The road was in the 'bad' part of the village surrounding Neijiang Teachers' College in Sichuan, China. There were karaoke bars, tea houses, and a two-kuai movie theater along this road. 1998
This is a photo I took while visiting the family members of one of my community friends in La Vega, Dominican Republic. What was originally just an experiment testing out my new camera, turned into a fascinating portrait of Dominican "campo"...
This picture was taken by my host sister in my village of Dinguiraye, Haute Guinea on the last day of Ramadan in 2008. It shows my host mom, "Mama Kadi" in her finest celebration clothes, and myself wearing a "bazin complet" dress and a veil that...
This photo is of the youth group in one community in which I worked, Los Limones. The event is of a graduation of the "Escojo Mi Vida!" (I choose my life) curriculum in which youth learned about Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV/AIDS, self...
The nearby farmers sold ducks, chickens, eggs, vegetables, and tofu at the morning market in our village near Neijiang Teachers' College, Sichuan, China (1998).