It all started with a trip to Sapa, Vietnam in 2011.  With 72hrs notice, I jumped on a plane with a team of tourism professionals and student volunteers to document the affects tourism is having on the ethnic minorities in the region, and to deliver training to try to prevent culture loss.

My involvement in the project spanned five years of work in the villages of Ta Phin and Lao Chai, where the Red Dao and Black Hmong ethnic minority groups call home.  Sharing these villagers' unique stories to the world remains a highlight for me not just professionally, but it also opened up the world to me and travel bug was set.