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From 2001 – 2006, collected stories and portraits of 419 teenagers across the country and compiled them into the award-winning book, “IT’S COMPLICATED: The American Teenager” (Umbrage, November 2007). Work inspired creation of The American Teenager Project in 2009, a national photography and oral history program for youth that aims to combat social division while cultivating empathy and understanding among teens. Lectures widely on the book and program throughout the United States.

Compelled to document the human condition in the United States and abroad, especially the upheaval of war in Guatemala, Bosnia, Rwanda, Uganda, and Haiti. Work featured in stories such as The Fate of the Missing in Guatemala, The Fight Against Child Abuse in America, Scars of War in Uganda, Life After Genocide in Rwanda, and IT'S COMPLICATED: The American Teenager Project. Spent six years intermittently living with Subcomandante Marcos and Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico to document struggle for the rights of indigenous peoples.Documenting and interviewing members of the transgendered community across the country for new project to influence national dialogue on gender and gender identity.