Over the course of my career, I’ve traveled extensively to remote places around the world, working alongside communities whose ways of living, knowing, and relating to the environment are often very different from my own.

In that time, one thing has become increasingly clear: the way stories are traditionally told for global audiences—and the way knowledge is shared—is fundamentally flawed. Too often, storytelling is extractive. We arrive, we document, we leave, and the story moves on without the people who shaped it.

These expeditions are an effort to do something different.

They are built around exchange, reciprocity, and shared authorship—experiences designed with local collaborators, where knowledge moves in both directions and storytelling becomes a tool for relationship rather than removal.

This work is part of a growing initiative developed with an extensive global network of partners to help usher in a new era of storytelling—and a new generation of storytellers.