Welcome. I'm an independent print and photo journalist from Colorado who is based in Puerto Natales, Chile. My personal work focuses on the intersection of agriculture, the environment, and rural life.

What started as a six month backpacking trip to this region in 2010 has grown into an enduring passion to share the stories of the people and places in Patagonia. I’m bilingual English/Spanish and am a certified FAA Part 107 drone pilot with a license for commercial aerial sUAS photography.

I’m a member of Women Photograph and syndicate images with Redux Pictures. My work has appeared in CNN, Fem Patagonia, High Country News, National Geographic Traveler, OZY, STAT News, and Western Horseman, among others.

AWARDS, GRANTS, and RECOGNITIONS

2019 Eyes on Main Street Wilson photo-reportage grant recipient

Contributing photographer to Dove’s #ShowUs global campaign on beauty stereotypes

Selected for Women Photograph Flash Print Sale and inaugural Women Photograph Annual

Interview. “Sguardo Di Donna.” Progresso Fotografico (Italy)

Interview. “Andria Hautamaki: Una norteamericana que documenta los rostros y paisajes de la patagonia.” Fem Patagonia (Chile)

2018 CNN’s “Year in 2018” photo gallery

Women Photograph’s “2018 Year in Pictures” photo gallery

Malta International Photo Award Top 25 Image

2016 Missouri Photo Workshop Bill & Duane Honorary Directors Scholarship

Photographer’s Forum Best of College & High School Photography Contest, Finalist

2015 Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographer, Honorable Mention

Hemispheric Institute of the Americas (HIA) Tinker Summer Research grant recipient

2014 Eddie Adams Workshop Class of XXVII Student

2014 Photocrati Fund for Humanitarian and Environmental Photography Projects, Finalist

2013 Santa Fe Workshop with Norman Mauskopf, Nikon Scholarship

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

National Press Photographers Association (NPPA)

Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ)

Women Photograph (WP)

EDUCATION

MS International Agricultural Development (University of California, Davis)

BA English Literature, Spanish Minor (Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)