Most Maasai women are victims of genital mutilation.

Woman in Yellow

Maasai Market

In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro:
Women of Courage

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Village Woman

"In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro: Women of Courage" is a proposed full-length documentary currently in the production stage. It focuses on the achievements of four extraordinary Tanzanian women who have taken a proactive approach in an extremely impoverished region.

They are founders and directors of: a preschool/​after-school center, a women's business empowerment group, an AIDS/​HIV hospice and orphanage, and an organization for the prevention of female genital mutilation.



Selected Work

Memoir/History
Bashert: A Granddaughter’s Holocaust Quest
New York Jew makes poignant post-Holocaust pilgrimage. “A loving eulogy to her lost family.”
—George Cohen, Booklist
Visual Images
Photography
Trailer, Documentary
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro: Women of Courage
Tanzanian women accomplish remarkable humanitarian missions.
Art/Editorial Photo Books
Times Square Underground
New! The massive subterranean complex.
Is There Mud in America?
Evocative photos and essays of volunteer experience in Tanzania.
My World in Black and White
Images of people and places, spanning more than 20 years.
Snow Views
Litchfield County, Connecticut.

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