The Outwords Archive (OUTWORDS)
Juan Raymundo Ramos is an accomplished video editor and technical coordinator with extensive experience in multimedia production. Currently serving as an Assistant Editor and Technical Coordinator at The OUTWORDS Archive since December 2021, Juan has successfully coordinated over 40 interviews and demonstrated editing proficiency by creating social media edits and documentary shorts. With a strong background at RF3 World USA and Howling Gale Entertainment, Juan directed and produced impactful videos, significantly increasing media viewership. Previous experience includes directing promotional content for Lina Hanson Global Beauty and contributing to Good Citizen Media Group as a Video Editing Intern. Juan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and Television Arts: Multimedia Production from California State University, Northridge, along with education from Los Angeles Valley College and the New York Film Academy.
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The Outwords Archive (OUTWORDS)
OUTWORDS is the first archival project to travel America recording the stories of LGBTQIA2S+ elders: the people who witnessed our history, and made it happen. A nonprofit organization, OUTWORDS was founded by Mason Funk who was inspired by the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive of interviews with Holocaust witnesses and survivors. Half-day interviews are conducted on high-definition digital video by film crews, primarily in the homes of interview subjects. Interviewees include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex individuals, as well as representatives of various sub-communities of the LGBTQ community including drag queens, leather daddies, lesbian separatists, and allies. Most interviewees are over 60 years old. In May 2018, OUTWORDS received a Creator Award in the Community Giver category from the co-working company WeWork. In May 2019, the first compilation of OUTWORDS interviews, entitled THE BOOK OF PRIDE, was published by HarperCollins, to help commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The OUTWORDS searchable digital platform makes video interviews freely available to the public.