I'm a storyteller with an innate passion for helping non-profit organizations tell their story.
Work samples linked below:
Award-winning professional with 5 years’ experience producing online & multimedia presentations, audio slideshows, videos, image galleries, photography, and photojournalism projects. Innate passion for helping non-profit organizations tell their story through digital media. Well-versed in social media best practices and cutting-edge strategies.
Partner with web developers and programmers to develop and maintain web presence. Manage social media content and campaigns for agency and its magazine on Twitter and Facebook. Develop, execute, and track social media strategies to increase visibility and awareness of agency to existing and potential donors. Cultivate relationships with social media user community. Write and produce daily blog posts for "Picture of the Day." Collaborate with staff to conceive, design, and code HTML email blasts. Produce multimedia content for website including audio slideshows, videos, and Flash image galleries. Maintain physical and digital photograph collections; receive new submissions from contributors. Conduct photo research for print and electronic publications. Negotiate agreements with 3rd-party photo sources. Oversee photo credits and licensing permissions.
Key Contributions:
Promoted to establish and fulfill responsibilities of newly created Digital Media Editor position.
Enhanced efficiency of photo submissions process by partnering with IT to implement FTP site to receive submissions from photographers and videographers.
Established social media presence and leveraged best practices by staying up to date on current social media strategies; introduced email blast schedule.
Shot for a group of 11 weekly newspapers, in central Connecticut., a variety of assignments ranging from local news and features to high school sports.
Reported as well as shot stories in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.
Student photographer during the American Society of Newspaper Editors' week long annual convention in Washington,D.C. Documented convention for website (www.asne.org) as well as the student run paper (ASNE Reporter).
My first internship as a staff photographer, in Phoenix, Arizona. I was selected as a participant in the Pulliam Journalism Fellowships. I worked for the Metro and Community sections of the paper, shooting daily feature, sports, and news assignments.
This ^^ is how I dance when no one is watching excited I am to be chosen as a MTM fellow.
Tomorrow, me and seven equally amazing dancers people will begin our year long journey as MTM (More Than Me) fellows in Liberia! I couldn’t be more excited to take on this new experience. It is our opportunity to respond to that desire that is within us all — the desire to give of ourselves in order to make the world a better place.
More Than Me has been hard at work in Liberia providing young girls with options. Options that have disintegrated as a result of years of civil war. So, tomorrow, I will be in Liberia joining in the fight to get young girls off the street and safely into school. Just typing those words is surreal, yet satisfying.
I have to admit, as excited as I am, I know this will not be an easy road and that truthfully makes me nervous. Will the girls like me? Will they feel comfortable with me? Will they learn from me? All I know is, I will do my absolute best, to make sure I give these girls my best and contribute to making their futures a little brighter.
Tonight is my last night in familiar surroundings. While I will undoubtedly be sad to be leaving my loved ones and the milestones that will occur in this next year, I am welcoming this journey with open arms and an open mind. We were each chosen for our razor sharp wits good reason by the good folks at MTM and will do them proud. I was selected as the communications/digital media fellow, so you will most likely be hearing more from me on this blog very soon! Bon voyage to my future coworkers! Chapter 1 of our new book begins tomorrow.

L.A. Times photographer, Barbara Davidson, won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for her photo package on victims of gang violence. She told the story BOLDLY, to say the least. She garnered such honesty and emotion out of a very sensitive and tough subject. I salute you Barbara!
I didn’t realize gang violence was still such a problem out in Cali. I urge you to view the entire package, “Caught in the Crossfire” which includes video interviews with innocent victims of gang violence as well as the photos.
Came across this on the Blog A Photo Editor… soo REAL. Creative folks are not always the the best at running a business. :-(
I’m available for work :-)
Thanks to my amazingly talented friend and coworker, Daria, I’ve got this awesome flyer, that will hopefully attract potential clients/customers and projects. Forward Movement!
“… you don’t know what’s gonna happen next, the only thing you can rely on is good music.”
Amen! I LOVE good music and I’m ecstatic about the addition of the Revive Music Group to Okayplayer.com’s family of sites. This video is on point and so is the soundtrack. Check The Revivalist site out here.
Music is a great way to heal and a safe place to feel, trapped in this fake world, a gateway to real…
Shad
(from the song “Listen” on the TSOL album)

Another shot from my headshots session with Journo friend Olivia. Love a good black & white photo!
*published in the NYTimes.com Lens Blog. 20 year-old photojournalist and student Ty Cacek talks with Kerri Macdonald about his assignment covering a Klu Klux Klan chapter in Kentucky last spring.

Above photo by Jocelyn Bain Hogg (VII Photographer)
*Excerpt from the Q & A between Macdonald and Ty. I couldn’t agree more with his sentiments:
“My goal has been to go into a subculture of people who are very different from me and show them in a way that allows people to connect. Walking into these people’s lives and seeing what they go through on a day-to-day basis is really eye-opening. I stopped seeing people as very different from me.
Q.
How has it changed the way you work?
A.
I realized that pictures don’t have to be perfect. Sometimes they’re even better because they’re not.
I really try to focus on issues that are difficult to access. I find that once you get into a situation that’s hard to photograph, you’re able to find a certain comfort within that subject matter. You end up being more comfortable than uncomfortable.
Another thing I’ve learned is to show all subjects with dignity. That’s human. If you’re going to focus on gritty subject matter, it’s important to show it in a way that allows human connection. You want people to feel like they’re really gaining another experience by looking at pictures.”
The spring concert season is warming up, even if the weather isn’t. Check out my preview of some of the hottest Hip Hop shows to hit NYC this month!
Cindy playing the Guzengh, a Chinese string instrument, on the Columbus Circle subway platform last night. I love subway musicians. She was definitely in the zone. Audio to come soon!
Had a fun shoot in Central Park with my journo friend, Olivia this past weekend. It was fah-reezing, but she is such a breeze to work with and the photos turned out great!
An old favorite. I produced this audio slideshow, Voices from “Little Ethiopia,” in December of 2008 and it was published as a web companion to the article “America’s Horn of Africa” published in the March 2009 edition of ONE magazine. It was a great experience interviewing and meeting with the subjects of this piece. I learned a great deal about Ethiopian culture and what it means to be an immigrant in the U.S. I definitely fell in love with Ethiopian culture during that time and still hope to visit the country one day.
The shuttering of the historic shop’s doors last August left behind droves of disappointed lovers of Hip-Hop worldwide, the legendary East Village record store having stood as a staple of the Hip-Hop community since opening in 1994. Though records were still for sale on their web site, owner Joseph Abaijan aka DJ Jab wanted to rekindle what made Fat Beats so special — the community aspect.
On Saturday, March 5th, he was able to accomplish this with the first launch of a monthly Pop-Up Shop record store and music celebration. Located approximately four miles from the original East Village location, entering the 3rd floor Brooklyn warehouse was an experience akin to traveling back to a time when connoisseurs first began gathering in the original location to share space with others of like mind. Rekindling lost feelings for a day, Hip-Hop heads intermingled with luminary MCs and DJs like DJ Spinna, DJ Evil Dee, DJ Eclipse and Rich Medina and the gathering was beautiful, proving once again that Hip-Hop still thrives.
*Published on smokingsection.net
I kinda like the mixtapes better so far… but haven’t listened all the way through yet
Hands down, my all time favorite Hip Hop love song. The most accurate depiction of love I’ve ever heard in a song. Happy Love Day!
Love Language
L’amour n’a pas de, frontiere (Love has no boundaries)
Restes car je t’aime comme tu es (Stay because I love you as you are)
J’ai traverse l’ocean du verbe (I crossed an ocean of words)
Et je t’ai trouve (And I found you)
lol! you’re welcome
“No Women” LOL very interesting, but makes sense.
During a session with production team Grand Staff, Rugz D. Bewler declares his studio essentials to RapRelapse.com.