For a lot of last summer and all of my final semester at CUNY I reported on the healthcare system in Liberia post-Ebola. I found that the viral catastrophe that was Ebola has now been replaced by a much less talked about silent healthcare crisis. Vandross, photographed in this story, is one of the Liberians I met along the way who told me about their struggles to get basic care. Please read about it in the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism (link in bio) #cunyjreports #liberia #monrovia #harper #healthcare Thank you Prue Clarke, Debbie Sontag, Harding Giahyue, Rodney D. Sieh, Mae Azango, Lennart Dodoo and Tecee Boley for all of the help along the way. Sorry if I forgot anyone! Most importantly, thank you Vandross Payne for sharing your story and for being patient and understanding while I pitched it around. (at Monrovia, Liberia)

Its election night in NYC and I’m off to go watch the results with City Council candidate for D45 and community activist Anthony Beckford. This is Beckford out campaigning on Halloween night. While packing up he spotted NYPD officers gathering near a store across the street. Beckford, who runs the Brooklyn Copwatch Patrol Unit, stopped what he was doing to watch them. #elections2017 #citycouncil #copwatchpatrolunitcpu #cunyjreports (at Flatbush Junction)

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(Gurami) Some Greenwich Village residents worry that somebody’s going to steal Christmas. It’s not the Grinch, It’s Ai Weiwei.  Christmas tree lights the Washington Square Arch every holiday season, but not this year. Instead, the famous Chinese artist’s installation will replace the main holiday decorations. Some local residents think it will politicize the recreational space, but not everybody agrees. Listen what local residents and park goers are saying.

One of my favorites from my coverage of the March for Justice, a nearly three week long march from New York City to Albany to protest human rights abuses in New York State Prisons. In this photo a car passes a marcher as she stands on a sidewalk in Poughkeepsie. #tbt #reportagephotography #photojournalism #womenphotograph #afjmarchforjustice #prisonrreform #cunyjreports #jjie (at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism)

I walked by a group of worshippers singing in a church in my Brooklyn neighborhood this morning. It reminded me of one of the last times I went to church which was back in Tahn, Liberia. In this photo a young boy from the community plays the drums in Pastor Varney's church while other worshippers clap along // July 2017 // Tahn, Liberia #reportagephotography #photojournalism #cunyjintl17 #cunyjreports #documentaryphotography #womenphotograph #liberia #latergram #grandcapemountcounty #reportingtrip (at Tahn, Grand Cape Mount, Liberia)

During my first week in Liberia I went to the Ducor Hotel and looked out on Westpoint, Liberia's most densely populated slum. This week I had the opportunity to visit Westpoint with Musa, a Liberian who grew up in there and who still lives there with his family. This photo is the opposite view shot from the waterside in Westpoint looking back at the Ducor Hotel. Westpoint is home to more than 75,000 people and is built on a beach. The sandy peninsula is rapidly eroding leaving families homeless. Latrines (pictured here) are few and far between. All of this right in downtown Monrovia. Musa, my guide for the afternoon, wants to help his community and thinks education is the key. With the help of some friends he launched Educate West Point, a nonprofit that works to make sure kids stay in school by making sure they don't have to worry about school fees, uniforms, food, or poor health. I leave Liberia tomorrow so I won't be around to see the first batch of kids start school in September but I look forward to hearing how it goes. #reportersnotebook #cunyj17 #cunyjreports #westpoint #educatewestpoint #education #urbaneducation #liberia #communitydevelopment (at Westpoint, Montserrado, Liberia)