She covered the parliamentary elections in Afghanistan in September 2005, and has travelled in India documenting the rise of that nation as a global power. Her work, has appeared in Orion magazine, The Independent, The New York Times Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Travel+Leisure, and other publications. She currently lives in Rock Creek WV, where she works with the organization Climate Ground Zero on a campaign to stop mountaintop removal. She was recently announced as a winner of the 43rd Annual Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for her work 'Dragline,' a photographic expose of mountaintop removal coal mining.