Freelance Photographer located in Miami, Florida!

Bachelor of Science: Photojournalism

Bachelor of Science: Marine, Freshwater, & Estuary Biology

Pictures of the Year International: Mentor and entry reviewer  

Esserman-Knight Journalism Award 2025:‘Guilty of Grief’ series

NPPA Clip contest winner for sports, portrait, and news.

National Hearst Photojournalism Awards (2021) : First Place overall

I’m a freelance photographer based in Miami, Florida, and a former staff photographer at the Miami Herald. My work focuses on people, place, and the ways social and environmental issues shape our communities. I’m particularly drawn to stories connected to the ocean and the environment, where my background in marine biology and photojournalism intersect.

Before joining the Miami Herald, I interned at the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio, the Sacramento Bee in California, the Ann Arbor News/MLive.com in Michigan, and the ActionQuest Media Team in the British Virgin Islands.

Photojournalism gives me the opportunity to meet people from different places and in various walks of life. One of the most important things I learned at Ohio University’s Scripps School of Visual Communication is that people are the ones who ultimately help you tell their stories. I have found this advice to be true time and again.  It is our job as photographers, and as journalists, to communicate these stories to the world.  

For partially the same reason, I scuba dive.  The ocean is a place unlike our own, and I feel called to bring awareness about its crippling fate.  I have dove in Ohio, the Florida coast, the Florida Keys, St. Kitts and Nevis, on a live aboard boat in both the Galápagos and the British Virgin Islands where I have spent nine months documenting the environment. 

I enjoy highlighting social and environmental issues by giving the people affected by them a voice. It is what I will continue to do in my years to come.