Jasmin Mara Lopez
- Username: jasmin_mara
- PRX Member
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Portfolio
Young Immigration Activist Struggles to Balance Courage with Fear
(04:38)
From: Jasmin Mara Lopez
A high school senior in Los Angeles struggles to balance his courage and his fears of being undocumented.
Living with HIV as a senior
(08:14)
From: KALW
People 50 years or older now make up the majority of HIV and AIDS cases in San Francisco. Since HIV emerged in the 1980's, treatments have improved -- allowing people to live ...
Deadly Divide: Migrant death on the Border
(29:00)
From: Making Contact
Over 6,000 migrant deaths were recorded on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico between 1998 and 2013. This documentary travels to the desert ranch lands of Brooks County ...
Maternal Matters: Indigenous Women in the Yucatan Challenge Violence and Indifference
(09:38)
From: Making Contact
In Mexico an indigenous woman is three times more likely to die during childbirth or postpartum than a non indigenous woman. Both culture and government policies play a role ...
New Orleans Reconstruction Workers Fight to Remain
(08:59)
From: Making Contact
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Southern Gulf Coast. Reconstruction after Katrina drew thousands of people from India, Brazil, Mexico, Honduras, and ...
About Me
Jasmin López is an independent audio producer, reporter and sound artist working throughout the United States, México, and Central America. Born in Los Angeles with familial roots in México, her childhood was affected by issues experienced on both sides of the U.S./México border. This instilled in her a strong passion for social change, immigrant rights and youth empowerment.
In 2007, Jasmin founded Project Luz - a project that empowers youth to share stories within their communities utilizing audio and photojournalism techniques. The following year, she moved to México where she collaborated with journalists and researched for published documentary projects, including coverage of communities affected by the H1N1 Influenza and the disappearance of the Colorado River. Her collaborative audio work about the Colorado River was shared at Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, LookBetween Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville and Exposure Gallery in San Francisco.
Jasmin returned to Los Angeles in 2011 to lead a reporting project that introduced adverse health effects caused by the air pollution weighing heavily on the historic and predominantly Latino community of Boyle Heights. Most recently, she founded Listen Up, Los Angeles! - a growing collective of radio journalists and producers in the Los Angeles area. Her audio work on noise pollution in Boyle Heights was featured in the first Listen Up, Los Angeles group show in 2012. She also worked as coordinating editor for a program that trained young adults in journalistic ethics and practice, multimedia storytelling skills via USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism.
Jasmin is the proud recipient of the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) New Voices Scholarship, and the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) “Translating Science/Telling Stories” Fellowship.
Clients and collaborations have included Al Jazeera, Beacon Media News, Brandon Thibodeaux Photography, Brian L. Frank Photography, El Tecolote Newspaper, Folger Shakespeare Library, HealthyCal.org, KALW, KCRW’s Sonic Trace, KPCC, KQED’s The California Report, Labor Radio, KUSP, Latitude News, Marketplace, Monocle Radio, Newsdesk, New Village Charter School, North Carolina Public Radio, NPR’s Latino USA, Small Schools for Equity, Voice of Witness, and Zackary Canepari Photography.
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