These stories are from news assignments during my time working for Reporter magazine or writing for journalism classes. I chose to focus on topics that interested me and appear as themes in my visual work, such as sustainability, women’s health and reflection on place and local history.

A Legacy of Dispossession and Hope

Like many other treaties between the US and tribal nations, The Treaty of Canandaigua’s history is complicated and muddled with broken promises but persists as an important document in preserving the sovereignty of Native peoples.

Early Miscarriage in The Lives Of Women, Historic And Modern

Lara Freidenfelds talks to students at Rochester Institute of Technology about American perception of early pregnancy loss, pregnancy technology and what it means for how women perceive miscarriage today.

US Businesses are Starting to Take their Social Responsibility Seriously

Research finds that corporations who take the responsibility to do well for the environment and the world around them benefit from their investments