Chloe Owens joins Melissa on the mic for our Everyday Woman series. Chloe is a non-fiction visual storyteller based in St. Louis, MO. Chloe merges her film, photography, and graphic design skills with her background in social work to amplify marginalized voices through visual storytelling. In 2015, Chloe produced her first documentary The Black Experience at Saint Louis University to amplify the voices of black students and faculty attending a predominately white school. After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, Chloe created #TheWindowQuoteProject to feature quotes expressed by black people and to express her own feelings during the midst of a very dark year.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Wine review: Paso a Paso Tempranillo and Liquid Light Sauvignon Blanc
- Non-traditional types of social work
- Attending St. Louis University, a predominately white Catholic Jesuit college in St. Louis, MO
- The stress of choosing a career path in your early 20s
- Improving systems that impact marginalized and oppressed people
- The brain-busting concept of ‘working yourself out of a job’
- Stumbling upon film and creating a documentary, The Black Experience at Saint Louis University
- The tragic murders of Michael Brown Jr. (2014) and George Floyd (2020)
- Creating #TheWindowQuoteProject
- Chloe’s future projects: storytelling for black women
- The meaning of Sisterhood
RESOURCES
- Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts
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- Check out Chloe Owens’ website www.chloeowenspictures.com
- Watch Chloe’s first documentary The Black Experience at Saint Louis University (2015)
- Check out all of Chloe’s film projects on her Website
- Follow #TheWindowQuoteProject on Instagram
- Try Liquid Light Sauvignon Blanc and Paso a Paso Tempranillo
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