John Gonzalez, 5, jumps on a trampoline in his backyard in Brownsville, Texas. All the houses on his street back up to the border fence, with a small road driven frequently by Border Patrol. View
Informed by her experiences as a former middle school special education teacher and instructor in prisons, Abena Subira Mackall’s research aims to provide insights that will enable public institutions to more effectively support individuals in contact with the juvenile and criminal justice systems. View
Kathy Somerville looks out the window at a coffeeshop on South Congress as bands set up to play the second day of SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. View
Josue Rosales plays on the floor with Maria Soto, his home visitor who has been working with his family since he was an infant. View
Santa Rosalia Cemetery sits on the south side of the border fence, seen at sunset in Brownsville, Texas. The patchwork border fence along the Texas-Mexico border has created a nebulous and bizarre third space between countries: homes, cemeteries, hiking trails and farms that now lie south of the wall. View
Romeo Johnson, 2, tagged along while his mother, Chantier Johnson, right, and Kierra Son participated in a workout class for pregnant moms at Femme Power in Austin, Texas. View
Pastor Paul Montoya walks into his church in Pueblo, Colorado, as he prepares sandwiches and supplies to distribute to people experiencing homelessness in his community. View
When Andrea Dunn isn’t working as a nurse at an Austin hospital, she’s at home with her husband and daughter, looking for ways to keep their little girl occupied and entertained. Now that Andrea knows she’s pregnant with her second child, she’s also contemplating what the future holds for her family as the COVID virus continues to spread through Texas. View
A rainbow arches over a residential neighborhood in Havana, Cuba following a brief rainstorm during the rainy season in late spring. View
Brittney Valdez, 8, gets help on her homework from Guadalupe Vasquez at the Boys and Girls Club of Pueblo County. Valdez received a Chromebook from the Pueblo Library, part of their program to help students succeed at remote learning. View
Lynn Walker takes plates of prepared food from the Serafina food pantry to residents who are unable to get down to the pantry due to issues like health or disability at the RBJ Center in downtown Austin, Texas. Walker works four days at week at the food pantry as part of an employment program offered by AARP, which employs adults over the age of 55 to work in community service. View
Lench Martinez gives Kartoon Piña a haircut and beard trim at Austin's Most Wanted Barbershop in south Austin. Martinez, who's family has been in Austin for more than eight generations, wrote a song about gentrification on the east side that gained popularity on YouTube. "My community has been torn apart by this," he said. View
Shirley Volcik waits for her turn to model during a wedding fashion show at the S.P.J.S.T. Rest Home in Taylor, Texas. View
Volunteer Chris Wilson stocks the shelves at Western Fairfax Christian Ministries’ food pantry, which is a client choice operation, allowing clients to shop and choose their own food and supplies. View
Tiek Johnson is raising her three-year-old son, Nyle, and works as operations director at Mama Sana Vibrant Woman. “That’s the thing about having the same lived experience,” Johnson says of her work at the nonprofit. “You feel it personally.” View
Robin Chotzinoff and Shelly Leuzinger were chosen for 'Best of the Fest' for their original performance piece '5 Reasons to Write a Song and 1 Reason Not To' at the Frontera Fest, a fringe theater festival in Austin, Texas. View
The 17th Annual MLK Community March, celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, started at the UT-Austin campus and ended at Huston-Tillotson University. Melony and Alysha Orbach, 10, left, and Gabi Galvan, 10, far right, try to smell a flower that Belle Walston, 9, holds. The girls, along with Slyvia Stefani, 9, in back, made signs for the event with quotes from MLK. View
Lillian Salerno is the only woman running in a 6-person Democratic primary for Texas' 32nd Congressional District in the U.S. House. Salerno is one of hundreds of first-time female candidates across the country who are running for office in 2018. View
Destiny Buranen pets her dog, Phoebe, who likes to curl up with her daughter’s stuffed animals on her bed. Buranen has always loved animals, which was how she first got to know Jamie Tanner and Simple Sparrow Care Farm. Tanner taught an art class at an organization that Buranen was involved with, and would always bring a small animal with her. “She came in with all her bunnies and her paint and she had this just like glow on her, Buranen remembers, “And we started talking and she made me feel like super comfortable.” View
Sabrina Joiner, 7, dressed as a princess for Halloween, waits in line with her family for a potluck dinner being served in downtown Martindale at the city's Sesquicentennial celebration. Carlton Carl, of Washington DC, has bought most of tiny and abandoned downtown Martindale, just east of San Marcos, Texas. View
A makeshift gym is set up on the beach in Qingdao, China. View
A dozen protestors (and half a dozen dogs) gathered on the sidewalk in front of the Austin offices of U.S. Senator John Cornyn for a street theater event, protesting the Senator's recent voting record. View
Performers dressed as clowns spray down the audience with Faygo soda during the Insane Clown Posse show at Empire Control Room in Austin, Texas. View
Antya Cawston, 2, plays with a photo of her father, Justin. Just 5 months after returning from a deployment in Iraq, Justin is set to deploy again, this time to Afghanistan. View
Rayna Cawston comforts her 7-year-old daughter, Mylia, at the park near their house in Coulee Dam, Washington. Just 5 months after returning from a deployment in Iraq, Reyna's husband Justin is set to deploy again, this time to Afghanistan. The absence was hard on his family. View
A mother plays with her infant daughter during a check up at the People's Community Clinic, a nonprofit clinic that serves Central Texas' uninsured and medically underserved. View
Mike Voigt corrals cattle into a pen before an auction at Hills Prairie Livestock in Bastrop, Texas. More cattle are being sold than usual and at lower prices due to the drought, which is causing a food and water shortage for the animals. View
Javier and Carmen Chaparro look through the contents of their house, which was destroyed by wildfires in Bastrop, Texas. Carmen reacts when she finds a cross that was left undamaged on what used to be the couple's patio. View
Men cool themselves with fans in a park in Xi'an, China. View