Jasmine Leyva: Podcast Interviews

Jasmine Leyva

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Film Director, Actor, Multimedia Producer

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2 Interviews

Jasmine Leyva's Interviews

Allison Melody & Jasmine Leyva • 15 Jul 2020 • EN

311: The Invisible Vegan: How a Plant-Based Diet Intersects with Race, Class, and Gender

Jasmine Leyva is the director of the feature length documentary, The Invisible Vegan, a film that chronicles Jasmine’s personal experience with plant-based eating and how veganism intersects with race, class and gender. The film also explains how plant-based eating is directly linked to African roots and how African-

Elizabeth Novogratz & Jasmine Leyva • 02 Jul 2020 • EN

Jasmine Leyva: The Invisible Vegan

"What's sad about it is… a lot of people think it's the norm… that's what I thought. Diabetes was something my grandmother had and my mom was pre-diabetic so I thought, oh diabetes and clogged arteries and high cholesterol, they’re just my destiny - that's a normal part of life because that's what I saw happening to ev