This short slideshow was produced though the Knight-Carnegie Fellowship I did during the summer of 2007. Click on the icon to the right of the print story here.

I spent a night at a San Bernardo mosque while I was reporting on Muslim polygamy in the United States. Note: The people in this slideshow are NOT all polygamous.

Pastor Drew Phoenix is the first openly practicing transsexual minister within the United Methodist Church (UMC). Through my Carnegie-Knight Fellowship I had this summer, I traveled to Baltimore, Maryland to see how the recently self-outted minister interacted with his parishioners. See for yourself, in this slideshow I produced for NPR’s Bryant Park Project.

When the UMC’s Judicial Council met to decide his fate within the denomination, I worked with NPR’s Bryant Park Project producers to post a story on their blog. Check out the discussion it generated.

At the beginning of October, I teamed up with independent photographer Neil Osborne to produce “Generations,” at the Eddie Adams workshop this year. The 2-minute photo-slideshow profiles a fifth-generation dairy farm in upstate New York.

I was honored to have been invited to the workshop as a multimedia producer by Brian Storm of Media Storm. Along with some of his producers and several other talented multimedia extraordinaires, we created 10 espresso-like slideshow packages in 48 hours.

This flash web feature was my masters thesis at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Through a series of photo-slideshows and interactive graphics, “Remnants of War” shows the increase in use of landmines in Colombia and how it largely affects the country’s innocent, rural, poor civilians.

I think the project took a few years off my life. Not only because I listened to stories of murder and misery, but because I was learning Flash as I went along. Throw in reporting, color correcting, and writing, and you have very little sleep for 4 months. But I finished. And this is the multimedia piece I’m most proud of. Spend some time with it. Human Rights Watch launched just the slideshows with their report on use of Colombian Landmines in July 2007.

Check out the spanish version.

Here’s a video I produced when I was at Journalism School. It’s a 2-minute feature I shot, reported and narrated as part of our newscast, which I also co-anchored. If you get bored of watching me and Larry Santana talk, you can scroll through to the middle of the newscast.

The piece is about Wendy-O-Matik, a writer and “radical love” activist in Berkeley. By profiling the polyamory workshops she gives in the San Francisco Bay area, it explores whether “being open” is a sexual orientation.

Before I embarked on months of Flash programming for my masters project on Colombian Landmine victims, I thought I would practice using the program with a topic a lighter topic. For a while, I was playing with the idea of doing my thesis on “polyamorous” people in the San Francisco Bay area, or people who take non-monagamy as a lifestyle and/or sexual orientation. For my research, I found profiled several different species, from the Dungfly to the Bonobo, about their non-monogamous tendencies. Apparently, being “sexually open” isn’t as unusual as you may think. Please, forgive the utter ridiculousness of this project. I promise, it was just for Flash practice.