Places Like This

Since 2007, nearly half of Puerto Rico’s public schools have closed – including the former elementary school of Johana Dominguez. Years later, Johana and a group of neighbors have reclaimed the school and transformed it into a community center.

Created for MEJO582 International Projects. Full collaborative multimedia story here.

2022 College Photographer of the Year Multimedia Group Story Finalist

2024 Asian American Journalists Association Student Excellence in Video Storytelling

A Girl From Hiroshima

70 years after Toshiko Ishikawa loses her home and entire family in the 1945 Hiroshima bombing, her Japanese-American daughter Kathleen, now an acclaimed author, tells her story. A testament to joy as much as it is loss.

View full multimedia story here.

2022 College Photographer of the Year Multimedia Individual Story Gold Award

2022 Hearst Journalism Awards Multimedia III 2nd Place

I Am What I Am Because of You

In a rural town in Eastern Oregon, a small community of Japanese-Americans found and created a home. Hundreds relocated to Ontario after their release from internment camps in WWII, and most never left. For three generations of Iseris, home is the people that surround them, with an obligation to leave the world better than how it was found.

Created for the 2022 Asian American Journalists Association’s VOICES fellowship.

2023 Hearst Journalism Awards Multimedia III 5th Place

Homestead

A story of home: of needing one, and cultivating it from the ground up. For Lisa Redman and Elizabeth West of the Appalachian mountains, Woodland Harvest Mountain Farm is both a sanctuary and a new beginning. It’s a space to be free and to be loved.

Created at the 2021 Carolina Photojournalism Workshop.