My global health photography has taken me across Africa on two deeply meaningful assignments. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I donated my time to document Dr. Roger Hartl’s Tanzania Neurosurgery Project — an initiative led by the Director of Spinal Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City that unites surgeons from around the world to train local doctors in advanced neurosurgical procedures. Over five days, I photographed lectures, procedures, and live surgeries in the OR, capturing the transfer of life-changing expertise in real time. That same commitment to global health storytelling brought me to the Great Rift Valley in southern Ethiopia on assignment for Engender Health, a global nonprofit. Embedded for eight days with an ophthalmologist, a PR representative, and a local driver, I documented communities in remote hospitals and villages seeking treatment for Trachoma — a preventable infectious eye disease — where Pfizer-donated medication and, in advanced cases, surgery offered a path to restored sight. Together, these two assignments reflect my ability to work in complex, high-stakes medical environments across the globe, bringing both sensitivity and professionalism to stories that truly matter.
