Working in close collaboration with the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington (IFC), over the coming year I will be photographing the work of diverse religious institutions, groups, and individuals who are serving the DC area. The goal of this project, Faith in Action DC, is to celebrate the service efforts of local people of faith, garner increased attention for our communities’ achievements, and promote the Washington D.C. area as a national and international model of interfaith cooperation for the common good.

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A profile of poet Derrick Weston Brown promoting his debut collection of poetry ‘Wisdom Teeth’, featuring author/professor Tony Medina, poet Ruth Forman, and Simone Jacobson of Words.Beats.Life.

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This summer the travel website GloboMaestro brought me on to shoot and edit a round of videos profiling must-see destinations around New York City. With host Michael Bordenick, concierge at The Surrey Hotel, we interviewed world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson in Harlem, visited the oldest artisan bakery in the city, and practiced strikes at a secret underground bowling alley.

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Three years ago, signaling a new wave of attacks on the the Bahá’í religious community in Iran, the seven members of the Yaran, or ‘Friends’, the Iranian Baha’i community’s former acting leadership group, were all arrested, imprisoned, and later convicted on false charges including espionage. Since then there has been an outcry from governments and public figures around the world. To commemorate the third anniversary of the Yaran’s imprisonment, on May 12, 2011 the national administration of the Bahá’ís of the United States organized an event on Capitol Hill in order to draw more attention to the plight of these prisoners in particular and Iran’s human rights situation in general.

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For the PBS documentary entitled The Calling, which follows a group of youth from different religious backgrounds striving to lead lives of service in line with their chosen spiritual paths, the doc’s producers have created a terrific website that profiles a diverse collection of people who share their opinions about what it means to follow their calling.

Poet & children’s book author Ruth Forman was recently invited to be featured.

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In May 2010, I traveled as part of a Digital Development Communications production team to the West African republic of Liberia. My partner Luis Dechtiar and I produced a short video about the USAID-sponsored GEMAP (Government Economic Management Assistance Program). The program focused on capacity-building training mainly in the area of financial management at key government institutions and state-owned enterprises, such as the Ministry of Finance, the National Port Authority, and Roberts International Airport.

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