Last winter my proposal was selected as one of this year’s Projects for Peace grant recipients, receiving $10k to create The Talk Documentary + Online Toolkit. This ambitious project explores the complex and broken landscape of sex education across America, the far-reaching repercussions of this failed system, and envisions the transformative potential of comprehensive sex ed.

After a truly unforgettable summer, driving cross country in my moms car to film and develop The Talk, this project is finally in post production and hopes to release a version of this work-in-progress trailer by the end of this year. The relationships we’ve built across the country with national organizations, sex educators, schools, teachers, young activists, and public officials has provided us with the opportunity to continue doing this work to help create a national reckoning about this issue. Because now, more than ever, it’s time for The Talk.

An increasing amount of anti-abortion legislation are being triggered across the country. Many of these bills—fetal heartbeat bills, abortion bans, initiating death penalty as punishment—are designed not to be implemented, but to push the Supreme Court to reverse the decision in Roe V. Wade. This series, titled The Walk, shares the stories of clinic escorts, volunteers who help community members access reproductive choice providers. Through phone interviews, The Walk is a series of short films that documents volunteers who put themselves at risk to protect the right to choose. As The Walk’s experimental animator and art director, this work-in-progress highlights Mia’s passion for using the voices of others to speak to intersectional injustices facing our world today.