My goal as a documentary photographer is; To educate and agitate, to initiate dialogue, to visually document the costs of war, to reject the supposition that we as individuals are powerless to effect change, to inspire the viewer to engage in quantifiable action to advance peace in the U.S. and the world, and to submit that human life is sacred and that killing in any form is uncivilized. In March 2005, I traveled with the Global Exchange delegation “Women Making Change” to Afghanistan. In March 2007, I returned to Afghanistan as a volunteer, teaching English and photographing in the A4T schools.