10/20/2026
When cancer has touched your family, the ribbons in a crowd become more than colors. You think of faces. Names. People you love.
That’s why Champions of Hope, hosted by Southeast Health Foundation, means so much to me and why I’m grateful to be part of it each year.
Being behind the camera gives me a chance to notice the little things. A hand on someone’s shoulder. Families standing close. A smile that carries a story you may never fully know. I can’t look through my lens at this event without thinking about how cancer has impacted my own family, and how many people there carry something similar.
There’s something deeply moving about seeing a community show up for people facing some of the hardest days of their lives. To honor those we’ve lost, celebrate those here with us, and remind those still going through it that they matter.
Thank you to the Southeast Health team for the care you give people in our community, and to Southeast Health Foundation for bringing us together around a cause that is personal to so many of us.
It’s a privilege to help preserve these moments through Evergreen Creative Company. I hope the photos help people feel how much love was there.
And thank you to Steve Pearce for these behind-the-scenes photos of me doing work that means so much to me.
