She has maintained a deep relationship with Haiti, reporting the 2010 earthquake from a feminist angle, especially noting the impact of the disaster on the lives of teenage girls.

She launched and served as co-founder and co-executive director of a global initiative WE-ACTx, based in San Francisco and Kigali, that helps Rwandan women affected by HIV/AIDS who are survivors of genocidal rape, and orphans.

[1] WE-ACTx has provided free, comprehensive care to thousands of HIV-positive Rwandan women and children, and is today an all-Rwandan run program operating two clinics in Kigali.

She began reporting for World Pulse and the Global Post, and launched a blog on the post-quake humanitarian response, Pox Vox.

She released a report in 2011 with PotoFi showing that teenage Haitian girls bore a disproportionate brunt of the disaster, evidenced by a tide of unplanned, early pregnancies linked to sexual violence, and a survival-based entry into prostitution, and displacement.

She helped organize a major Mardi Gras Carnaval float on gender justice in 2014 and led a grassroots effort to reduce the risk of rape and assaults during this annual event, to great success.