Solay L. Howell

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  • About Solay L. Howell

    Storyteller | Video Journalist | Photojournalist | Documentary Filmmaker | Based in Washington DC
    

    
    

    A storyteller with experience, education and heart, Solay has a MA in Film and Video from American University and a BJ in Photojournalism from University of Missouri.

    
    

    She was awarded an overseas internship with The Associated Press and spent a summer with the television news crew in Jerusalem, Israel.
    

    
    She interned at The Washington Post in their video department and was selected for the Dean’s Internship at USA TODAY.

    
    

    In 2011 she produced her first documentary, True Name which follows the journey of two people from names that no longer fit to ones that do.
    

    
    

    She worked at VII Photo Agency in New York and Paris.
    

    
    

    Returning to her hometown in 2008, she teamed up with Doris Buckley to start a local newspaper, Hanaside News.
    

    
    

    Solay joined the Peace Corps and served as an environmental volunteer in Benin, West Africa.

    
    

    Currently, she is Associate Video Producer at the Sunlight Foundation, an open government advocacy organization in the nation's capitol.
    

• Ecovillage Life

  Ecovillage Life

  Benin, West Africa

  Occupy Oakland General Strike

  Paris, France

  Pinky's Life Celebration

  Profile
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  • v: 6 i: 20 One Light

    Oct 22, 12

    Creased and thin my grandfather’s hands adorned with rosaries.

    Physical remains, so we may bid farewell to a beloved friend

    One Light IMAGES MARKING THE WAY
    
    This column is dedicated to sharing the moments of insight along my journey.
    You are included in this post because of the light that you have added to my life.
    Thank you for the continued inspiration. —Solay Lani Howell
    

    October 20, 2012

    Reaching into space extending far beyond where I believe myself to be,
    I stretch to grasp the edges of me

    In that quest I discover
    I am far greater
    than even my furthest reach

    And when all is said and all is done
    I hope that I know
    my greatness

    And may that greatness bring light,
    And leave love in my wake.

    ***

    Aloha Oe Grandpa Pinky

    The strength of your spirit, a star in your eye.
    That fire of life, a twinkling light blue.
    Uncontrolled flowing, refreshing life.

    One point of light so bright
    reminded all it touched
    of freedom.
    Your twinkle lives on.

    From one, there were many
    and from many, many more–
    with the same gleam
    invoking a mischievous smile
    for the mystery of life.

    With great gratitude for my sparkle,
    Solay Lani Howell

    Flowers, a token of love from me to you on this passage

    Together we call a toast to your life.

    In the morning after we celebrated your life, there was beautiful light,

    And a bounty of flowers to take on the journey home.

    We continue to grow, to learn, to change and to experience more fully…

    …the joy of who we are.
    

    
    
  • From Peace Corps to Baby Girl

    Sep 17, 12

    I once lived in a small African village and my life has never been the same. In the village I was called “Gado.” It meant the third born as I was the third white volunteer to come to Guene. Many of the villagers were concerned with basic survival and spent most of the days farming, foraging food, picking firewood, hauling water and cooking crouched over open flames.

    I thought I had something to teach them. I arrived with a mission, a purpose to make their lives better. After all, I grew up in a land of plenty, on a farm bursting with life. We raised cattle, chickens, had gardens, fruit trees and our own fresh water spring.

    My upbringing was simple, rich and nourished. I carried so much knowledge with me and came in the spirit of teaching, but little did I know what the villagers really needed.

    So I set out, as many had before, injecting myself into the community with the intent to improve a people that I had just met, in a language I scarcely new, in a culture I will not pretend to understand. I spent the next two months meeting with the women in the community to learn more about what was needed, what projects had existed and what was crucial moving forward.

    Then, I came to a truth that I’d never faced before: when you are concerned with having enough food to eat and feed your family, nothing else matters.In fact, many of the children ate a combination of corn pounded into a fine powder, mixed with water and cooked over a fire. This gave the feeling of being full, but it did not provide much nutrition.

    Living in a moment to moment existence meant many things fell by the wayside. One of the first to go was the education of girls as they helped their mothers with crops, cooking, hauling water, picking wood, and raising their younger siblings.The challenges were well beyond anything I had previously imagined. I was discouraged, and believed that I could not make the change that I knew was needed as a single environmental volunteer on the ground. So I returned to home, went back to school and continued to deepen my skills while never forgetting the dilemma that drove me from the African continent: How can I truly make a difference?

    Four years have gone by and I’ve shared about my experience a handful of times. I avoided the topic so as to avoid my own feeling of hopelessness and failure to make a real impact. Despite my belief that there was no solution, one has been brought to my attention.The solution is this: educate the girls, improve the community, break the cycle, and change the world. So that is exactly what I am seeking to do.

    I’ve joined forces with the all-volunteer staffed Baby Girl Project. Together we’re building schools for girls in Kenya. Right now we are pushing to build school #24 so are asking all our friends for support. Your contribution will go directly to school construction and upkeep. Please give what you are able either in person or by sending me a check written out to Free the Children. I’ll put your name into our raffle on November 4th.

    Many thanks from me and all the baby girls,
    Solay L. Howell

    http://babygirlproject.org/

    
    
  • v:6 i:19 One Light

    Jan 12, 12

    Time passes quickly watching the babies grow. Ben, Helena, Antone and Kamaile in Koali, HI January, 2012.

    It was not so long ago I was seven, dreaming of a future far from the mountain of my home. Nalani sweeps sawdust off the shop floor, January 2012.

    One Light IMAGES MARKING THE WAY
    
    This column is dedicated to sharing the moments of insight along my journey.
    You are included in this post because of the light that you have added to my life.
    Thank you for the continued inspiration. —Solay Lani Howell

    
    

    I’m often confused,
    Lost in thought and convinced life is about where I’ve been
    or that life is about where I’m from.
    And each time I return to my roots I am reminded
    of that which has already come to pass,
    of a life outgrown.

    Just as a tree needs its roots deep in the earth,
    for its branches to stretch high into the sky,
    So do I, need the nourishment of returning.
    For it is in returning that I can see just how far my branches reach.

    It is in leaving once again that life opens
    and is no longer about where I’ve been,
    but about where I am going.

    “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” ~Deepak Chopra

    “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.” ~Maya Angelou

    “Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Chasing, racing, running barefoot in the mud, these are the things a childhood on the mountain are made of.

    Remember screaming at the top of your lungs, just because no one was stopping you? Helena and Ben on the mountaintop, January, 2012.