Graduate Roy Burvick laughs with visitors at the first graduation ceremony of the New York University Prison Education Program (NYU PEP) at Wallkill Correctional Facility, October 12, 2017. NYU PEP is a college program that offers credit-bearing courses and educational programming leading to an Associate of Arts Degree from New York University in Liberal Studies to men incarcerated at Wallkill Correctional Facility, located in Ulster County, New York. (Credit: Kate Lord / New York University)
       
     
Photography / NYU Prison Education Program Celebrates First Graduation
She's the First Scholars Mariatu A. B. and Ramatulai in Sierra Leone, Nov. 26, 2015. (photo by Kate Lord)
       
     
Photography / Back to School After Ebola
She's the First Scholars Deepa B., Durga S., Sarita A., Jharana B., and Sunita S. pose for the camera in Nepal, March 2015. (photo by Kate Lord)
       
     
Photography / Kopila Valley School in Nepal
Amy Dixon, a visually impaired sommelier and triathlete, gets kisses from her guide dog Elvis at the YMCA at Greenwich in Greenwich, Connecticut, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. Dixon is training for several championship competitions next year, including the USA Paratriathlon National Championship and the PATCO Triathlon Pan American Championships. (Photo by Kate Lord)
       
     
Photography / Amy Dixon: Paratriathlete & Sommelier
       
     
Photography / Primary School Girls Train for First 5K
       
     
Photography / Helping New Yorkers Thrive
Educating Indigenous Mayan Woman
       
     
Photography / The Changing Role of Women in Rural Guatemala
7:15 am: Elizabeth locks up her room, which she shares with three other girls, before they all head to school.
       
     
Photography / Dorm in the Andes Enables Girls to Attend School
Sumaya reads aloud. (Photo by Kate Lord)
       
     
Photography / Kibera School for Girls
Vilma and Irma talk one-on-one.
       
     
Photography / Mentorship Provides Avenue for Success
Sister Consuelo de Jesus concentrates on her Bible study, or Lexio Divino, during silent prayer in Santa Catalina Monastery's chapel. The nuns gather five times a day for prayer, the methods of which vary from singing, to chanting, to reciting the rosary.
       
     
Photography / Peruvian Nuns Share Cloistered Life