For this editorial assignment, I documented environmental justice advocates in West Eugene, where residents living near toxic industrial sites are experiencing elevated rates of illness. While state officials say health assessments cannot confirm the cause of local cancers, community members believe long-term chemical exposure is making families — including children — sick, and they question why change has come so slowly compared with wealthier neighborhoods.

For this editorial assignment with Photographers Without Borders, I produced “Healing Our Waters with Kelp: Indigenous Futurist Solutions for Mother Earth,” documenting the Native Conservancy’s Kelp initiative in Alaska. The photo essay follows Indigenous stewards working to restore ancestral waters and ecosystems through kelp cultivation and regenerative practices, highlighting how these community-driven solutions address climate change, food sovereignty, and cultural resilience in the wake of environmental devastation.

For this editorial assignment, I photographed Dr. Glaucomflecken creator Will Flanary, whose sharp satire of American health care has attracted more than 2.5 million followers across TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter. Through short skits and recurring characters, Flanary exposes the absurdities of the U.S. medical system with a specificity that resonates deeply with clinicians and patients alike. My portraits accompanied the story on his rapid rise and the growing cultural impact of his comedy.

For this editorial assignment, I was commissioned by Earthjustice to document a landmark event and create portraits related to the movement to restore the lower Snake River. For more than two decades, Earthjustice has pushed the federal government to remove dams whose costs to salmon and Native communities have become unsupportable. This effort is part of a broader campaign to revive salmon populations, protect orcas, and advance justice for Northwest tribes.

I produced the photo essay “Women Growing the Future” for Thousand Currents, documenting women farmers across West Africa reclaiming agroecological traditions and leading food‑sovereignty efforts through the movement Nous Sommes la Solution (We Are the Solution). The work highlights how rural women are restoring ancestral practices, strengthening local food systems, and building resilience in the face of industrial farming’s impacts, positioning women at the forefront of ecological and community‑led transformation.

This editorial assignment with WOZ, a Swiss newspaper, was created with photo editor Ursula Häne and journalist Lukas Tobler, who explores Portland’s antifascist movement through activists “Zeina,” “Time,” “Paul,” and “Switch.” Tracing its roots to the 1988 murder of Mulugeta Seraw, the movement—including Rose City Antifa—continues to oppose racism, fascism, and state violence, exemplified by Portland’s protests against ICE.

I produced a photo essay on RENAF, a peasant-led network in the Andean highlands where land, memory, and resilience are deeply intertwined. Through agroecology, ancestral knowledge, community organizing, and policy advocacy, RENAF strengthens local food systems and cultivates sovereignty from the soil up. Nearly 90% of its member associations are formally established and led by Aymara and Quechua women, who guide their communities with care, strength, and collective purpose, building an alternative ecosystem where governance is shared, seeds are sacred, and the future is something they grow.

For this editorial assignment, I documented a ceremony at the Anderson Tribute Center where members of Post 22 gathered with the community to acknowledge and apologize for past discriminatory actions against Japanese American World War II veterans. The event honored the descendants of those who were wronged and sought to recognize their service and dignity long overlooked.

For this editorial assignment with STAT, I photographed people involved in Portland’s emerging psychedelic ecosystem as Oregon became the first state to legalize psilocybin outside the traditional health-care system. The story explored how Measure 109 created a non-medical regulatory framework for magic mushrooms, the debates over training, access, and equity, and how local businesses and facilitators are shaping this historic shift in mental health and wellness culture.

For this editorial photo essay with The Progressive, I documented frontline resistance to REDD+ carbon offset schemes at the Global Climate Action Summit in California. My images captured Indigenous leaders and community organizers blocking the summit entrance to call out market-based climate solutions and highlight how programs like REDD+ risk commodifying tribal lands and perpetuating environmental injustice.

“We are working to create a new society based on human rights, indivisible, and interrelated.”

As Indigenous communities and smallholder farmers in Africa, and Kenya specifically, absorb the costs of the climate crisis, they work to resist, reform, and build alternatives to the nuanced crises which threaten their autonomy, food sovereignty, health and ecosystems.

As Photographer-In-Residence with Thousand Currents, I produced a photo essay documenting AMAN, one of Indonesia’s Indigenous networks and their stewardship of the world’s third-largest rainforest. The work highlights how 50–70 million Indigenous Peoples have sustainably managed these biodiverse lands for generations, preserving ecosystems and cultural practices, while facing increasing threats from deforestation and extractive industries that jeopardize both the forest and their way of life.