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I produced this story for The Lens Blog, a focus on photography, video, and visual journalism at The New York Times. You can read the full story here.

Every year the Florida College Access Network welcomes a cohort of college and certificate students to learn about education policy in Florida. The fellowship culminates in a trip to Tallahassee when students meet with legislators to talk about their student experiences. Read the full story here. 

Thomas Pluckhahn, an archeologist at the University of South Florida, examine two key sites along Tampa Bay’s shores to better understand the climate conditions that might have caused conflict over food resources among Native American societies. By using several archaeological methods, scientists are now able to see a shift in how these estuaries were defended between 600 and 900 AD. Read the full story here.

After over ten years of research, international scientists reveal their findings on the effects of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill at the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem.(GoMOSES) conference hosted by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI), an independent research program established following the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill, the largest in U.S. history. Read the full story here.

Students from the Morsani College of Medicine are passionate about bringing health care services to Tampa’s less fortunate street community. Inspired by programs in other cities a group of students began their street rounds downtown.  Aside from their street runs, the students also hold a monthly medical clinical at a grassroots community center called the Well. 

Here is a piece I produced during the New York Times Student Journalism Institute back in 2009 with the very charismatic reporter Eric Galindo. We teamed up to visually explore the lives of unhoused veterans. It was hard to see our former soldiers so broken. Thanks to all who shared their voices.