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10 years of showing up — cell phones, shaky videos, and all.

Family Wedding
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Kosovo June 2025 · with Mercy Projects

Creativity and connection with kids across borders. My first time with Mercy Projects.

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Honduras October 2025 · with Rooted Intl.

Documenting resilience and community with Rooted Intl.

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Ukraine October 2024 · 1 week · with Mercy Projects

Solo trip with a journalist. Got to shadow him. The chapel photos came from this trip.

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Ukraine Summer 2024 · 3 weeks · with Mercy Projects

Three-week trip. The kids photos came from here.

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Day trip to London on the way · 2 days in Budapest on the way back
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Armenia · Georgia Summer 2023 · with Mercy Projects

Summer camp with Armenian and Ukrainian kids.

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1.5 weeks solo — London · Paris
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Middle East September 2022

Helped a friend move over to become a field worker.

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Day trip to Warsaw
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A short film by Brooke

Hungary June 2022 · Budapest

Working with Ukrainian refugees from the war. Re-introduction to missions at 24.

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Day trips around Budapest. First trip with a friend — she encouraged me to do more.
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Inti Vintage 2021 · Temecula, CA

A different kind of mission. Where God refined me.

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Belize 2016 · 3.5 months

Lived there at 18. Training to become a missionary.

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Haiti Feb 2016 · Jan 2015 · Feb 2014 · with Haiti Endowment Fund

Three trips in three years. This is where my life changed. This is where it all became real.

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Mexico 2013 · with Colina de Luz

First trip at 14. How it began.

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Before the pro camera. Before the website. The work was already happening.

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