Upcoming Events
2024
"Turismo Entre Culturas: Una Invitación a la Construcción de la Paz y Su Comprehension (Tourism Between Cultures: An Invitation To Peacebuilding and Understanding)". Presenting to students, faculty and attending visitors of World Tourism Day 2024 at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali on on tourism's role and opportunities in advancing environmental, economic and social wellbeing in the world and region.
Program photography: Mainsprings: The Janada L. Batchelor Foundation For Children. Documenting permaculture, scholastic education and related activities benefitting children and families in the Mwanza, Tanzania region.
"Turismo Entre Culturas: Una Invitación a la Construcción de la Paz y Su Comprehension (Tourism Between Cultures: An Invitation To Peacebuilding and Understanding)". Presenting to students, faculty and attending visitors of World Tourism Day 2024 at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali on on tourism's role and opportunities in advancing environmental, economic and social wellbeing in the world and region.
Program photography: Mainsprings: The Janada L. Batchelor Foundation For Children. Documenting permaculture, scholastic education and related activities benefitting children and families in the Mwanza, Tanzania region.
Past Events and Involvements
2021-23
Events being more difficult in the COVID era, I spent 2021 - early 2023 providing consulting, facilitation, photography and videography. Working in the American Southwest, Florida, and East Africa with clients and collaborators, work included wildlife conservation, cultural advocacy in arts and human rights, and regenerative agriculture and natural resource management.
Events being more difficult in the COVID era, I spent 2021 - early 2023 providing consulting, facilitation, photography and videography. Working in the American Southwest, Florida, and East Africa with clients and collaborators, work included wildlife conservation, cultural advocacy in arts and human rights, and regenerative agriculture and natural resource management.
2020
"Photovoice Workshop" with Community Mobilization for Regenerative Agriculture (C-MRA). Online facilitation with Western Kenya smallholder farmers, exchanging knowledge and strategy for using photography to improve community storytelling and for sustainable development.
Nature photography workshop: "Learn To Shoot Full Moon Rise & Moonlit Landscapes" with Peter Francis of George's Camera. An awe-inspiring evening learning |
to photograph the full moon and moonlit landscapes in the Laguna Mountains! Hands-on expert photography instruction and naturalist & sense of place education. Socially distant and COVID-conscious programming.
Nature photography gallery exhibition: "Landscapes, Treescapes, Seascapes" At Studio C Gallery, 128 E Main St, El Cajon, CA 92020. A display of fine art alongside the works of photographer Peter Francis, and fine art painters Kenda Francis and Julianne Ricksecker. Socially distant and COVID-conscious programming.
Nature photography gallery exhibition: "Landscapes, Treescapes, Seascapes" At Studio C Gallery, 128 E Main St, El Cajon, CA 92020. A display of fine art alongside the works of photographer Peter Francis, and fine art painters Kenda Francis and Julianne Ricksecker. Socially distant and COVID-conscious programming.
Nature photography webinar: "Naturaleza y Fotografia: por que nos atrea? (Nature and Photography: why do they attract us?)". A Spanish-language webinar with five photographers (Mexican nationals psychologist Sofia Vargas, photographer Sergio Müller, Carlos Aguilera, photographer Miguel Angel de La Cueva, and photographer Colin H Richard) from the region of the Sonoran Desert.
Nature photography workshop: "Learn To Shoot The Milky Way On Location" with George's Camera at Mount Laguna's Kwaaymii Point. Hands-on expert photography instruction and naturalist & sense of place education. Socially distant and COVID-conscious programming. |
Nature photography workshop: "Nature, Culture & Photography: Learn Ecology & Photography in Peak Season For Wildflowers" with George's Camera in Borrego Springs. Hands-on expert photography instruction and naturalist & sense of place education.
Workshop presentation: "Introduction to Permaculture" at Wild Willow Farm & Education Center with Resource Conservation District of Greater San Diego. Co-presenting on permaculture with my Kenyan Kikuyu friend and colleague, Cecilia Njoroge, on her home country work with Kikuyu and Maasai peoples.
Facilitation: Rotary World Peace Conference: Moderation of Sustainability Track. The Rotary World Peace Conference gives Rotarians and non-Rotarians from all sectors of society, an opportunity to come together, learn from experts, become inspired and leave with immediate action plans to implement within our communities. Together, we can make the changes needed to create world peace! Ontario Convention Center - Ontario, California
2019
"Permaculture in the Southern California Native Plant Garden" at the California Native Plant Society's "Sustainable Practices in Your California Native Garden" Winter Workshop held Balboa Park's Museum of Photographic Arts
2018
Kumeyaay Foodways Panel with Slow Food URBAN San Diego
Participatory Community Development with San Isidro Permaculture, Kenya (see video)
Kenya Safari - Global Basecamps: sustainable tourism (video production) in Kenya for the Kenya Trails Group Safari
Colors of Zanzibar: sustainable tourism videography