“For the last seven years, I've been photographing the Vanity Fair party at the Oscars. My good friend, the production designer Thomas Thurnauer creates these sets which are super elaborate and we invite guests to come in and be photographed. It’s a pretty intense process, because you only get a very short time with the celebrity and you never know if it is going to work. If it does, you get these wonderful in-between moments, before they head out back to drink Martinis with their favorite movie stars. Oprah was one of my highlights. She looks super elegant and beautifully posed, but also a little off guard. It was just one of those wonderful spontaneous moments, and atypical of the way she is usually seen.”

Photographed in Vanity Fair Oscar Portrait Studio, Los Angeles, 2015

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New York Cares is the city’s leading volunteer management organization. Their mission is to meet the community’s needs by mobilizing caring New Yorkers in volunteer service. New York Care’s programs address poverty with three main goals (1) to meet immediate needs, such as providing meals to the hungry, (2) to improve educational outcomes for NYC students and adults, and 3) revitalize NYC's invaluable public spaces. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they are currently providing on-the-ground volunteer programs such as meal preparation and delivery to food insecure and homebound New Yorkers. Additionally, they have started a virtual volunteer program including virtual citizenship preparation, virtual yoga for elementary school students, online current events discussion groups for seniors who are blind or low vision, and more.