One year ago this month, The Friends Project opened the preschool in Las Minitas, Nicaragua. On the newsstands today, the 10th anniversary issue of Rochester Magazine features a personal essay and lots of photos about our project! It's a celeb…
This time last year I snapped this selfie as we all celebrated the opening of the Las Minitas preschool that WE all helped build. More than 200 people came together from Rochester and beyond to raise $5,200 to help the farmers realize their dream.…
I am talking with students at Colchester Middle School with media specialist Lisa Buckton about my travels and photographing remote communities with linguists in Africa and Australia. I'm using the fish Remy carved me in Bandial last week and t…
Interesting. These people met on an online dating site, and navigated 21 countries - with not even a change of clothes. I'm the girl who fills the bag, to its size. Should I try this? I want to be on this date. [http://www.salon.com/2013/11/12/t…
I'm proud to announce that 585 Magazine [https://www.585mag.com] has featured a first-person essay by me about the experience of building the preschool in Nicaragua. Go The Friends Project [https://www.thefriendsproject.org]! If you are new to…
Today, this is going up as a reminder of the power of everyday people — us, them, here, there, and way out there. This is your English class in Las Minitas, that farmers and their families have sought for several years and we as The Friends Projec…
The day's copy of The West Australian lay on her back seat. I stared at it a bit then picked it up. The first page I turned had this image of U.S. journalist James Foley on it. I can't tell you how long I stared at this image, at his eyes…
Sunde is a Masai warrior. He was also a lion hunter for his tribe before he became a Lion Guardian, tracking lions and helping to prevent loss of livestock from kills in the community. This guy, at 23, clearly has some guts. Hunters go to kill lio…
Martin the German is a six-foot-five elementary teacher... who was my roomie in the hostel for most of my extra five days. We watched World Cup and yelled at the sleeping German team that one game... and it wasn't until the last day when fate…
