A collection of self-produced media projects.
As part of my community studies social documentation course at the University of California, Santa Cruz, we were asked to select a medium and to produce a short documentary on a subject of our choice. The subject I choose was women’s skateboarding with a goal of highlighting not only the barriers that continue to exist today, but the rich narrative of women who have been riding since the rise of the sport as well as the recent growth of female skate communities that empower and encourage girls...
During our spring break project with the non-profit organization called Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (S.O.I.L.) in March 2009 we worked with developing a dry toilet at a community school, which primarily serves street children in the town of Cap-Haitian, Haiti. On our visit we met Abel Nemour who is the director of the school. At our first site visit we found out that the school was flooded as a result of the evening rain. Abel indicated that the inadequate condition of the class...