I am an anthropologist, photojournalist, and postgraduate in migration studies. My work focuses on how crises and journeys change people. 

I have worked on the US-Mexico border and in the UK with refugee and unhoused communities. Much of my work over the COVID-19 pandemic was done remotely with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh; Syrian, Iraqi, Afghani, Somali, Sudanese, and Palestinian refugees in Jordan; and Afghani, Mexican, and Honduran refugees in the United States. 

I am fascinated by the stories that take place on journeys. In academia and in public media, attention tends to focus on why migrants leave their original communities (willingly or unwillingly) and how well they adapt to the communities that they settle into. While these are important considerations, my work centers on "the route" that migrants move along as a productive space. Identities, relationships, and world views are all fluid along the route, as they are influenced by rapidly changing encounters. Migration routes are made up of all kinds of different people pinging off of each other, and in the process, routes make people too. Because migration can span anywhere from weeks to generations, the liminal space of the route becomes an incredibly generative site.

My questions of precarity, journeys, crises, and self-construction come from my own experiences of being homeless, as well as my wide-ranging travel.