Maya Angelou in a rare moment captured on set while photographing her for her Children’s book series - Maya’s World (Random House) 2005
Nelson Mandela with Reverend Forbes at Riverside Church 2005
Africa House - on set with Zain Verjee (former Anchor for CNN) who has launched her own media company and spoke about the future of media in Africa. 2016
Grammy Award-winning Native American singer/songwriter, Joanne Shenandoah 2022
V: Formerly Eve Ensler - Playwright, Author, Activist celebrates One Billion Rising with friends in NYC
Reunited with the Arch (Archbishop Desmond Tutu). Shared Vision Lifetime Achievement Award - NYC March 2014 (Photo: Sylvia Lewis)
A rare moment in the green room at the UN with Secretary General, Kofi Annan, Wynton Marsalis, Luciano Pavarotti, & Nane Annan. Pavarotti & Marsalis performed together at the United Nations in 1988 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.
Joanne & daughter, Leah Shenadoah at the Gathering for Humanity NM - May 2018. Photo later used to create awareness for the Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women campaign.
Triptych of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Archbishop Tutu at the Seeds of Compassion Conference. Seattle. April 2018. Working on THE SHIFT documentary.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault with a copy of YES! Magazine article featuring our beloved Arch at a celebration of life for media critic and human rights activist, Danny Schechter.
Portrait of Jane on set by Michel Momy in the studio in the 80’s.
Marion Wright-Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund shares her locket and inspiration. September 2015, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) held an historic reunion at the Ford Foundation in New York City
Marianne Williamson at the Alliance for a New Humanity. Costa Rica 2018.
Joyful photo shoot with Joanne Shenandoah in upstate NY 2022.
Nelson Mandela. Riverside Church NYC May 2005
Maya Angelou on set with kids to create her author photo for Maya’s World (a series of Children’s books published by Random House).
Lynne Twist Lynne Twist and Deepak Chopra discuss fund-raising, money & spirituality at The Human Forum Conference. Puerto Rico 2006. Part of the Alliance for a New Humanity.
Angela Davis, Michelle Alexander, & Cornel West take part in a panel discussion to end mass incarceration at Riverside Church in New York City on September 14, 2012.
Prince William was brought to tears by Actor & Citykids member Steven Prescod - December 2014
Sir Richard Branson opens the Virgin Megastore at Union Square NYC 1988
Three Nobel Laureates: Jody Williams, Archbishop Tutu, Betty Williams at the Global Healing Conference in Ubud, Bali 2009
V: Formerly Eve Ensler - Playwright, Author, Activist celebrates One Billion Rising with friends in NYC
Malik Yoba with Earth Train and the Citykids Foundation’s Nationwide Outreach. San Francisco 2000.
Harry Belafonte stands in solidarity with Amadou Diallo’s mother, Kadiatou Diallo. Riverside Church 1999.
Cornel West, Carol Nixon, Angela Davis. Riverside Church Sept. 2012
Morley takes the stage at One Billion Rising. NYC
Mayor David Dinkins, Nelson Mandela, & Representative Charlie Rangel at Riverside Church NY 2005
Prince William receives gifts from the Citykids Foundation 2014
Shared Vision Lifetime Achievement Award - NYC March 2014 portrait of Activist.
Carol Nixon / Riverside Church with Buddhist leadership
Deborah Roberts & Al Roker. Shaker Museum Gala
Sir Richard Branson - the ultimate juggler at home in Oxfordshire.
Joanne Shenandoah 2021
Angela Davis at Riverside Church NYC End Mass Incarceration 2012
Author Nikki Giovanni visits with R.O.P.E Youth in Pittsfield, Mass. 2017
Mayor David Dinkins, Nelson Mandela, Rep. Charlie Rangel, & Harry Belafonte at Riverside Church 2005
Former Director of Amnesty International, Jack Healey with photo of himself with Sting & Bruce Springsteen, Human Rights Now! (was a worldwide tour of twenty benefit concerts on behalf of Amnesty International that took place over six weeks in 1988 spearheaded by Healey.) This Portrait created in DC 2024.
Bree Newsome Bass, Nikki Giovanni, Annette Gordon-Reed, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Lucia Stanton, Peter Onuf, Marian Wright-Edlelman, Leslie Greene-Bowman, Jon Meacham, Gayle Jessup-White, and more. Memory, Mourning, Mobilization: Legacies of Slavery and Freedom in America Summit at Monticello October 2016
Marian Wright-Edelman & Nikki Giovanni at the Memory, Mourning, Mobilization: Legacies of Slavery and Freedom in America summit at Monticello October 2016
Mpho Tutu with her father, Archbishop Tutu Shared Vision Lifetime Achievement Award - NYC March 2014
Malik Yoba with newborn daughter, Pria.
Deepak Chopra at the Heart & Mind Festival: The Sacred Woman NYC June 2019
Ojibwe Grandmother/ Author/ Activist Mary Lyons at the Abode. New Lebanon, NY.
Byron Lewis with Al Sharpton NYC Dec. 2024
Malik Yoba with his mother, the magnificent Mahmoudah Young 2015
Indigenous Matriarchy. L to R: Joanne Shenandoah, Grandmother Flordemayo, Grandmother Unci Rita, Leah Shenandoah, Grandmother Perci Ami. Gathering for Humanity 2019 New Mexico.
Archbishop Tutu (at the Global Healing Conference in Bali 2009) happily received my portrait of his beloved friend & colleague, Nelson Mandela, from Riverside Church 2005.
With Derrick N. Ashong, also known as “DNA”, (born 1975 in Accra, Ghana), a producer, musician, and entrepreneur on the set of THE SHIFT documentary. Global Healing Conference, Ubud, Bali. 2009
Harry Belafonte welcomes dear friend Nelson Mandela at the Riverside Church. Harlem 2005
Polaroid of Jane created for painting by Jo Lauria sometime in the 80’s
Jazz Legend, Randy Weston’s homecoming in the Berkshires. June 2010
Joanne Shenandoah portrait for the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women campaign. NM May 2018
Nikki Giovanni at Women’s Writer retreat at the Mount, Lenox, Mass 2017
Alexander DeAvilia with Jun San at the Gandhi statue, NYC 2019
Model: Sara Ocul & Model/Designer: Adrian Alicea amongst the Cherry Blossoms. Jacqueline Onassis Reservoir Central Park 2024
Jefferson-Hemings descendant, Shannon LaNier, with questions for his great-great Grandfather, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson-Memorial 1999. From Jane & their book Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family (Random House).
Jefferson-Hemings descendant Shannon LaNier, brings his family to Monticello to learn the history of their ancestor, Sally Hemings. Mulberry Row. 2014
Model/Actor Furaha. Portrait created to celebrate her 74th birthday! NYC 2024
Grandmother Sasa / Abenaki Grandmother & teacher NM Gathering for Humanity 2018.
Prince William & Princess Kate with the Citykids Foundation NYC 2014
Malik Yoba with his first born crying in Central Park.
DJ Switch of Ghana after meeting with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Times Square 2016
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Global Healing Conference in Bali (2009)
Self portrait in mirror on the set with Rodney Smith 1994.