The 2011 UNITY Global Fellows Project
June 14th, 2011
I’ve completed a program with UNITY Journalists of Color, Inc. and its Global Reporting Fellowship. The assignment was to cover the United Nation’s High Level Meeting on AIDS from June 7 through June 10. The meeting was considered to be the most important to take place in recent years around AIDS issues, where world leaders took stock of global response, 30 years since the first recorded case.
A selection of my stories from the project:
Sexual violence against women, girls targeted (published 6/8/11)
For U.S. AIDS activist, stigma is biggest barrier for the HIV-positive (published 6/9/11)
Michel Sidibe, driving global battle against AIDS (with Laura Figueroa, published 6/10/11)
A photo essay on the U.N. flags can be viewed in the posting below.
The flags at the U.N.
June 14th, 2011
U.N. Flags
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It takes nearly 30 minutes each morning and afternoon to raise and lower the 192 flags representing the United Nations’ members. This week, the guards performed their duties as nearly 3,000 delegates streamed in and out of the complex on First Avenue between East 42nd and East 46th streets in New York City for the 2011 High-Level Meeting on AIDS. The flag ceremonies served as a visual reminder for tourists, joggers and dog walkers of the collective strength the institution represents.
*Shot during a week I spent at the United Nations for the 2011 UNITY Global Reporting Fellowship. Thanks to Miami Herald Photographer Carl Juste for coaching me through it.
Beekeeping in New Jersey
May 16th, 2011
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