Darlene Carchedi, known as Mama D, puts on make-up in her tent on the outskirts of downtown Phoenix on Friday, January 3, 2020. Carchedi said that when officials clean up homeless encampments and throw people's things out, the trauma of being homeless repeats itself. "You feel that total loss -trauma - every single time."
Anderson High School belles members watch Del Valle's opening show before a homecoming football game against at Del Valle High School on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019.
Verna Grice poses for a portrait in her Austin home, where her and her daughter's paintings hang on the fence. Grice stopped painting for 10 years after she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Recently, along with her daughter, Susan, she has taken it up again, painting on wood that is treated so that the paintings can live outdoors in gardens or on fences.
The Monument Valley boys cross country team, who painted handprints over their mouths to bring awareness to the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, pose for a portrait during the state cross-country championships at Cave Creek Golf Course in Phoenix on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. In the U.S. alone, Native American women are more than twice as likely to experience violence than any other demographic.
Lucky, a horse on the Austin Police Department downtown patrol, licks Officer Charles Bethel's neck after an afternoon walk in downtown Austin on July 29, 2019.
Distant relatives of the Haywood family who share the same two common enslaved ancestors who had 26 kids, wore various African-styled clothing articles to the family reunion on July 27, 2019.
Sonny Falcón, who coined the fajita in Central Texas 50 years ago, eats one in his Austin home below his makeshift wall of fame. He says he presented sizzling flank steaks as fajitas to the general public for the first time during the Diez y Seis de Septiembre festival in Kyle, Texas in 1969.
Del Valle high school football players lock arms and bow their heads in a moment of silence to remember a coach who recently died, before a high school homecoming football game against Anderson High at Del Valle High School on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019.
Missoula Rises organizer Rebecca Weston screams chants opposing the confirmation of now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh into a megaphone outside of the Missoula GOP headquarters on Friday, Oct. 5, 2018.
Troy Smith looks up at his 10-month-old son Seven Smith as they watch the Veteran's Day parade on Mill Avenue in downtown Tempe on Monday, Nov. 11, 2019.
Enzo Galliani's shadow is cast against the wall while playing basketball at St. Joseph elementary school in Missoula, Montana.
Chef Minerva Orduño Rincón peels prickly pear cactus, or nopal, at her home in Tempe, Arizona on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019.
Kyree Mathis, who was injured severely in a motorcycle accident in June, and his mother, Jody Formica, pose for a portrait in their temporary Phoenix home on Wednesday, Oct. 2. When they signed the lease on the house Sept. 6, the landlord said she needed to replace the flooring in Mathis' bedroom, but a month went by and nothing happened.
Swimmers practice as the sun rises over the Western Hills Athletic Club in Austin, Texas.
Brock Taylor, 27, poses for a portrait before competing in calf roping at his first ever rodeo, the Bastrop Homecoming Rodeo, on August 3, 2019.
Flagstaff High School runner Hana Hall gets emotional while embracing teammates after winning the team's fifth state championship in a row during the state cross-country championships at Cave Creek Golf Course in Phoenix on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019.
After after an emotional loss in the 3A state semifinals against Benjamin Franklin High School, Snowflake High School offensive lineman Justin Ciminski reflects.