Hali Tauxe

Friends and family celebrate Serenity Wilson’s seventeenth birthday Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, beside her grave in Indianapolis. The straight A student at Lawrence North High School was killed when shooting broke out at a block party in July.

Feminist marchers took the streets of Villavicencio, Meta, in Colombia in commemoration of International Women’s Day 2023. Here one of the demonstrators fastens the trans pride flag around her waist, where it joins her “pañuelo verde,” or green scarf emblematic of the fight for legal abortion in Latin America.

Seven-year-old Sofia Bedoya catches her mare in the early morning of March 2, 2023, from her family’s pasture land in the Guayabero region of Southwest Colombia. Since her community lacks navigable roads, Bedoya will ride the mare to the one-room schoolhouse erected by her neighbors.

Duane Petersen hauls a lingcod aboard the Kathleen K off the coast of Alaska on May 31, 2022. The fish will feed the crew during their three months of work tending to the salmon fishing fleet.

Wakulla Springs Alliance Chair Sean McGlynn, left, and Bob Deyle prepare to pump a non-toxic dye into a sink hole on Upper Lake Lafayette in Tallahassee, Fla., on Monday, April 9, 2018, as part of a study that seeks to better understand the connections between local lakes and the spring system. Their group will measure traces of this dye at Wakulla Springs and other springs connected through a system of caverns in the aquifer.

Ruthie Chase of the Stone Soup Street Action Committee dons a paper mache head for an Inconvenient Thursday Street Action at a busy intersection on Tallahassee, Fla., on Feb 8, 2018. The group has been taking to street corners every Thursday since the previous March to protest the policies of the Trump administration.

Businessman Donald Trump fires up the crowd during a campaign rally held March 9, 2016, in Fayetteville, N.C. 

Delayla Gasca, 7, joined hundreds of other protesters calling on legislators to pass stricter gun laws during the Rally in Tally at the Florida Capitol Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. Gasca and her sister were at school Thursday, Feb 15, 2018 when a shooting took place just 50 feet away, according to her mother. The students were terrified, not knowing whether there might be a shooter targeting their campus.

Mothers and daughters take to the streets in Villavicencio, Meta, on March 8, 2023, to protest what they characterize as the state’s complicity in gender-based violence.

Around 150 representatives from Moms Demand Action descend on the Florida Capitol on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, to lobby lawmakers about gun bills for the upcoming session. Here a group make their way to their first appointment with a legislator.

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett (D) wraps up an answer during the second live televised mayoral debate held Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, at the Fox59 studios in Indianapolis.

Hundreds gathered on Monument Circle in Indianapolis on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, to show their support for Palestinians as fighting between Israel and Hamas continued for a sixth day in and around Gaza. The latest round of violence that has characterized the region for more than 70 years had claimed more than 2,500 lives on both sides as of the start of the demonstration.

A man crosses the tracks with his bike between two parts of a derailed train in downtown Quincy, Fla., on Jan. 30, 2018. Two of the train’s seven cars derailed, spilling their cargo of adipic acid.

Leon County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Chris Poole, left, and Deputy John Baas search an apartment complex for a man with outstanding warrants Oct. 10, 2017.

A sheriff’s deputy arrests KC Cavanaugh for "obstruction of me" on Dec 11, 2016, after stopping her vehicle in front of a Sabal Trail Pipeline construction site in Branford, Fla. Tensions have run high between local law enforcement and organizers protesting the natural gas pipeline that would cut through the heart of Florida’s sping country.

Hundreds gathered on NC State’s campus in Raleigh, N.C. on Feb. 10, 2016, to mark the one year anniversary of the killing of three Muslim students. Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha were fatally shot by Craig Stephen Hicks at the couple’s apartment complex in Chapel Hill.

Two kiddie pools and a truckload of pulverized earth from the speedway transform a Bloomington, Ind. backyard into a mud wrestling arena where participants in the Dirty Boi Pit Smash face off to raise funds for gender affirming surgeries.

Sirius Blvck performs with Indy’s genre-bending supergroup 81355 at The White Rabbit on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023 during Chreece hip-hop festival in Indianapolis. Chreece returned this year after a three year break with more than 80 acts on 8 different stages around Fountain Square. Started in 2015, the festival is a showcase for local talent from Indy’s vibrant hip-hop scene as well as a draw for out-of-town acts.

Second-graders Ivory Donson, left to right, Daniela Nieves and Keon Viverette play a reading game with tutor Grace Martin during a Circle City Readers tutoring session Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, at Vision Academy at Riverside in Indianapolis. The word Donson is reading is “eye.”

Tracer's shadow crosses Mahan Road in Tallahassee, Fla., as the balloon comes in for a landing in the grassy lot next to Ruby's Diner. Pilot Wendell Purvis got his first glimpse of his future career when a balloon unexpectedly landed in his back yard in 1985.

Davin Juerling works with her client Kendrick Murphy on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023 at Juerling’s Twelve 19 Salon in Indianapolis. Murphy has been entrusting his hair care to Juerling since she was 19 and working out of her house.

Tomas Ellars, left to right, J.J.Pearson and Glenn Labita rehearse at Pearson’s house in Indianapolis on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, for an upcoming gig. Pearson, 59, has found family in the punk rock scene since getting kicked out of his house at age 15 for refusing to give up the music.

Audra Boarman, program coordinator at Society of St. Andrew’s Indiana office, and volunteer John Shaw glean apples Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023, at Chandler’s Orchard & Country Store in Fillmore, Ind. That day the gleaners rescued 54 bushels of apples, or about 2100 lbs., for two local food pantries.

"Mama Whit" has spent most of her life caring for babies: first her siblings, then her own children, and those of strangers at the FAMU hospital and Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Here she poses with her husband of 70 years, John Henry Whitaker, in their front yard in Tallahassee, Fla., on Jan. 18, 2017.

Volunteers prepare chapatis for the langar, or community meal, following services Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, at the Sikh Satsang Gurdwara in Indianapolis. The meal is vegetarian and free to anyone, regardless of faith.

Al Pitrelli performs with Trans-Siberian Orchestra Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

Third baseman Dylan Busby fields the ball during the third game in FSU's series with Samford at the Dick Howser Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla. on Feb 26, 2017.

Mooresville Pioneers Hogan Denny (2) is sacked by a pile of New Palestine Dragons defenders during the IHSAA Class 4A Regional Championship game on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, at New Palestine High School in New Palestine, Ind. Dragons defeated Pioneers 39-6.

Karter Koehne, 15 mo., plays with a cardboard cutout of family friend Chase Reed’s face before Reed and the Guerin Catholic Golden Eagles take on the Bishop Chatard Trojans on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, at Guerin Catholic High School in Nobelsville, Ind.

Spirit leaders Anna Mayer, left, and Andrew Lee fire up the Fishers student section during the annual Mudsock Game between rivals Hamilton Southeastern Royals and Fishers Tigers on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023 at Fishers High School in Fishers. Hamilton Southeastern Royals took home the trophy after a 35-34 overtime victory.

Jefferson County Middle/High School senior Kris Hawkins, center right, plays basketball with classmates on the courts at a public park in Monticello during his senior picnic May 22, 2017.

Ben Davis Giants Mark Zackery IV shows off his athleticism Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, during a photoshoot of the IndyStar boys basketball preseason superteam in the IndyStar photo studio in Indianapolis.

Roco Gonzalez takes on Count Noctis during the Naptown All Pro wrestling show held Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023 at World Famous Hotboys as part of Chreece festival in Indianapolis.

Fishers Tigers running back Khobie Martin (24) is tripped up by Royals’ defenders during the final game of class 6A sectionals between Fishers Tigers and Hamilton Southeastern Royals on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, at Hamilton Southeastern High School in Fishers, Ind.

Florida State pitcher Will Zirzow gets doused by teammate Quincy Nieporte after FSU beat Auburn in the NCAA Tallahassee regionals at Dick Howser Stadium Monday, June 5, 2017.

Florida State's Cole Sands pitches against Samford at the Dick Howser Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla., Friday, Feb. 24, 2017.

The 2017 Red Hills International Horse Trials came to a close with more than 100 horses competing in stadium jumping at Elinor Klapp-Phipps Park March 12.

Florida State football players run drills during open practice at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla., on August 6, 2017.

Butler Bulldogs guard Posh Alexander (5) passes the ball during the game between Butler Bulldogs and East Tennessee State Buccaneers Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Bulldogs beat Buccaneers 81-47.

Author Padgett Powell poses for a portrait in his hotel room after his reading at Word of South festival in Tallahasse, Fla., on April 9, 2017.

Kara Bookwalter, founding member of the Bloomington With Collective, poses in her home Feb. 26, 2022. "We are a group of friends and non-denominational witches,” she says of the group. “We are not a coven.”

Dora, washes her family’s clothes and bathes in the gully behind her house in Colombia’s rural Guayabero region. Dora has received training in journalism from a local media collective, but says it’s been impossible to find the time to report–or even write for herself–away from her responsibilities as a mother, a wife and as a farmer, running a household far from modern conveniences.

Anthony Knox, pictured in front of the capital May 31, 2017, has been shining the shoes of the Tallahassee elite for 29 years. Now he's planning to use what he's learned to launch his campaign for Florida governor.

Liz Joyner, Executive director of The Village Square, takes a break from her work running the nonprofit devoted to civic dialogue to pose for a portrait in her home office March 20, 2017.

Esther Whitaker, 88, or “Mama Whit" has spent most of her life caring for babies: first her siblings, then her own children, and those of strangers at the FAMU hospital and TMH. Here she poses for a portrait in her Tallahassee home on Jan 18, 2017.

Parker Wilkerson, 8, hangs out at the office at Greenwood Trailer Park Wednesday, Sep.12, 2017, while he waits for power to be restored to his home. The neighborhood is one of the last without electricity after Hurricane Irma swept through Tallahassee, Fla. "The thing this trailer park goes by is everyone in this trailer park is a family, and we all work together,” says Wilkerson.

Assistant coach Chuck Reeves squints down the field during football practice Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, at Hamilton Heights High School on in Arcadia, Ind. Described by colleagues as a “local legend,” this will be Reeves’ 43rd and final season with the Huskies football program.