This is Chris Pearson out of

Kazakhstan in Germany and welcome to the Candid Frame.

Jasmine Mara Lopez loves telling stories.

And in her roles as a journalist, radio producer, educator, and filmmaker, she has helped facilitate people telling their stories.

Some of these have focused on communities affected by the H1N1 influenza virus and air pollution's impact on the Latino community of Boyle Heights.

Though she works primarily with audio and film, she frequently collaborates with photographers

and credits photographers she met early in her career with showing her why it's so important

to be a storyteller.

One, I learned about freedom, a freedom to sort of be yourself and also be your

own storyteller with the work that you're doing. And I also learned a lot of the, you know,

how to tell a story with one image. Yeah, it was just, it was just the way that they lived and they

worked was so inspiring to me and so moving to me.

And I felt like I had found people that were creating in a way that I wanted to create.

Jasmine has also founded Project Loose, which provides young people the opportunity to tell their own stories and those of their communities,

and photographs, audio, and words.

But she's also focused on events in her own life, including the sexual abuse she suffered

at the hands of a respected family member.

Through her own healing and her film, Silent Beauty, she aspires to not only tell these stories,

but to challenge families who insist on living in denial and silence.

Whether it be from family that you tell or the abuser. It's denial, manipulation, silence, you know, and this is a way

for people not to have to face what they've done or have to face change because they are so

comfortable if it's family, they're so comfortable where they are so comfortable if it's family they're so comfortable

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