Through environmental portraits and documentary photography I explore the lives of women and girls and the meaning of family and community. My work as a photographer exists alongside my forty-year career as an attorney for children, clinical law professor at Boston College Law School, and policy consultant on issues related to gender, children’s rights and the youth legal system.

Individual narrative is central to my law and policy work—and narrative, both explicit and suggested, guides my photography as well. In my photographic practice, I co-create narratives with the subjects of my photography.

I am co-founder of two youth art and activism non-profits—Artistic Noise and I Am Why—which work to expand young activists’ power and policy reach through artistic expression. My collaborative photographic portraits and the conversations they inspired are published in an art and social justice book, I Am Why Reclaiming the Lens. My work has been exhibited in New York, Boston, San Francisco and Vermont and has been featured in non-profit publications.