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Nobuko
Oyabu is a native of Japan. She earned B.A. degree in Photojournalism
from Columbia College Chicago. Oyabu had worked for three daily newspapers in
the past 7 years, and was awarded by photojournalism organizations including
the National Press Photographers Association. After appearing on Lifetime
TV’s original documentary “Fear No More: End Violence Against Women,” her
personal project “ Faces of Rape & Sexual Abuse Survivors” has become a
traveling exhibition. She was elected as one of the honorary board members
for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and Pennsylvania Coalition
Against Rape this year. This October, her project kicks off the National
Domestic Violence Awareness Month at the Russell Rotunda of the United States
Senate in Washington DC. She is also selected as one of 10 journalists to
participate in discussions on “how the media covers rape” at Poynter Institute in
FL.
Photography is her way to communicate with others.
After her own experience of being raped, she is now thankful for the gift of
understanding the pain, which allows her to communicate with the survivors on a
level she had never imagined.
She was married last July, and lives in Omaha, NE.
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