Biography

Iris Maldonado grew up in Fajardo, Puerto Rico but graduated at Thomas A. Edison High School in Philadelphia. She is a single mother of three and a grandmother of three beautiful children. Iris holds an associate degree in Human Services. Her passion for helping people motivates her work as a peer support coach. Iris never gives up on what she feels is important. Having discovered photography at a young age, Iris uses the medium as a tool for self-expression and allows her to see things from a different perspective. Her photographs come, as she likes to say, “from the eyes of her soul.”