Helen M. Stummer is a New Jersey-based social documentary photographer and Visual Sociologist whose work is included in the collections of the Library of Congress, the International Center of Photography, Manhattan, the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Museum, and Rutgers University Libraries Special Collections in New Brunswick. She is Emerita Associate Professor of Photography and Photojournalism at the County College of Morris and the author of No Easy Walk: Newark 1980 -1993 (Temple). She received grants from the George and Helen Segal Foundation in 2011-12 as well as the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 1995 and 2003, and a