For years I have been a world traveller. Work hard at home, play hard when I travel. With multiple iterations of work that have always been oriented to others in my life and community, travel presented this space to be with myself and a crowd of strangers or the vast beauty of nature. It stimulated my creativity, re-centered my soul, and had a way of pushing reset on my perspective. When I launched Curiousitory, it was born out of the gift life had given me - one that lived a

She rushed up to me, mismatched clothes and flesh caked with mud here and there, hands in a flurry of motion...

Jigjiga, Somali Region, Ethiopia The utility vehicle bumped along the road, avoiding the larger potholes to hit the smaller ones. My head was wrapped tightly in hijab, and my body, covered from wrists to ankles in the desert heat, jostled about. Along the sides of the street, shops constructed of sheet metal, U.N. food ration bags woven together, and whatever other materials could be conjured up, sold products of all kinds. Nearly every street corner had a man or woman with a