Twenty years ago this month, I took steps that, unbeknownst to me, would completely change the trajectory of my life. I went to South Sudan. As the anchor of the evening news at my local television station, I had convinced my news director that we needed to visit this landlocked region which was taking its …
Continue reading From Anchor Desk to Humanitarian Aid Worker: My Life-Changing Journey
Personal reflections from my time on the ground She’s a little girl. Still in diapers. Blonde. All wrapped up in warm winter clothing. And she’s carrying a bag of diapers almost as tall as she is. This is the image that stays with me when I think of what the people of Ukraine have endured …
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It was a lonely plane ride. The earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 had knocked out power to a large portion of the northeastern coastline of Japan, including the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Very few people were travelling to the country where concerns of nuclear radiation leaks were high. I was one of the …
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