Test driving the new Canon mirrorless EOS R!
https://youtu.be/3drtsaGcymkVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Shooting With The Canon EOS R (https://youtu.be/3drtsaGcymk) Greetings! I’m very excited to chat about gear with you today. I’m thrilled to share that I was recently given the opportunity to collaborate with Adorama to take the long-awaited full frame mirrorless system – the Canon EOS R […]
AP PHOTOS: As the world marks the Day of the Girl Child, AP photographers explore what it means to grow up female in 2018
Today is the 7th annual International Day of the Girl Child! This year’s theme: “With Her: A Skilled Girl Force.” Thank you for standing with me and my nonprofit Too Young to Wed in the name of girls everywhere as they inspire, innovate and take charge of their own futures. But our work is far from finished because, this year alone, 12 million girls […]
100 Leadership Scholarships for Nigerian & Kenyan Child Marriage Survivors
I am proud to report that our dear friends at Brides Do Good – and each stylish bride-to-be who purchased their wedding dress from the Bicester Village pop-up in the UK over the last two months – have raised $25,000 for my nonprofit organization, Too Young to Wed (TYTW), to invest in the future of former […]
PBS NEWSHOUR: Girls who escaped Boko Haram plead for help for others
The amazing Judy Woodruff delicately interviewed Too Young to Wed’s Leadership Scholarship grantees, Hauwa and Ya Kaka, while they were guests on PBS Newshour in March. Please watch the full program to see the strength and resilience of these two incredible young women. Two girls who were abducted by Boko Haram in 2014 thought they would never be able […]
NPR: Abducted By Boko Haram, Now Posing With Lady Liberty In Times Square
This March, the nonprofit I founded, Too Young to Wed, brought Hauwa and Ya Kaka, two incredible young women from Nigeria — featured in the NYT Sunday Review story Child, Bride, Mother: Nigeria — to the U.S. to advocate for themselves and the thousands of other girls like them. We made the decision to bring […]
A Year of Firsts, Filled with Love
Every parent celebrates their child’s firsts: first birthday, first haircut, first words, first day of school. My husband, Bryan, and I are no different – except that as adoptive parents, we’ve crammed years’ worth of firsts into the last 12 months, such as the image above: first iPad (especially helpful for children with visual impairments). […]
What the Power of Photography has Meant in 2017 for Child Brides
On the eve of what I hope will be a bright New Year, I wanted to pause for a moment and celebrate what the power of photography has meant in 2017 for a group of girls and young women very close to my heart: child brides. As most of you know, when I’m not on […]
Why We Need the International Day of the Girl
Last Wednesday, October 11, marked the sixth International Day of the Girl, a day to be mindful of the hardships endured by so many girls around the world and to promote efforts to improve their lives. With that in mind, I wrote my last blog post about Malala Yousafzai, a native of Pakistan whose staunch […]
Malala Speaks Out to End Child Marriage
I first heard Malala Yousafzai speak at the New York City home of a philanthropist in 2013. She was barely 16 at the time, but I remember being struck by how mature she sounded, even then. In a room full of major donors to women’s causes, she remarked on the multitudes devoted to fighting for […]
Final Days of Historic Too Young to Wed Paris Exhibition
Like many visitors to the Arche du Photojournalisme in Paris over the past few months, Françoise Nyssen left the upset by what she witnessed. “I am in shock… I am a little overwhelmed by what I saw,” a reportedly teary Nyssen told Le Figaro following her August 1 visit to the Too Young to Wed […]
