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From Anchor Desk to Humanitarian Aid Worker: My Life-Changing Journey

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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 …

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Remembering Japan – 10 years later

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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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