20 Questions with Autumn Rae Mason
1. Name: Autumn Rae Mason
2. Age: 22
3. Hometown: Lafayette, Colorado (really close to Boulder)
4. Where you are on the planet right now: New York, New York!! But won’t be here for too long, can’t seem to sit still.
5: Favourite Book: My Journey by Tim Smith … though The Shack is a very close second
6. Favourite Movie: The Phantom of the Opera (I’m a little ashamed to say I have seen it over 50 times)
7. Favourite Band: Rascal Flatts
8. Favourite Food: Hummus (I eat it by the tub full)
9. What you wanted to be when you grew up: A math teacher (funny its the furthest thing I could imagine me being now)
10. Your ‘day job‘: I think the closest thing I could say is photographer…yeah ill just say photographer
11. Your dream: To live my life fully for Jesus, to really be His hands and be able to help others suffering from injustice
12. What you do for fun: swim, surf, snowboard, shop, eat good food, play basketball, go on walks with Jesus
13. What opened your eyes to the reality of human trafficking: After traveling for a year abroad and not realizing that people were being trafficked in every place I went. It wasn’t until I debriefed and started to realize that it was everywhere that i had been its even where I am…that opened the floodgates and after a couple 4-5 hour sessions glued to my computer researching human trafficking that’s when my eyes were really opened
14: What you are doing to change it: Me, along with a group of about 20 produced a book called Sex + Money: A Global Search for Human Worth, it explores how the abuse of sex and money lead to human trafficking and other injustices. Using our photography and stories the book recounts some of the experiences over a year of travel where injustice stared us in the face
15. Specific justice issue you’d like to address most: Well obviously human trafficking, also abortion, infanticide, HIV/aids, teens at risk, clean water…the list could go on but these are the ones God has really given me a heart for
16. Country you consider to have the greatest need: Every country has so much need, i think India was the most impoverished nation, though I also think that the USA has a different kind of need, it needs to find its compassion again. A major culture shift needs to happen and America needs to rediscover what the country was founded on God
17. Literature/ media you recommend to help people get acquainted with the issues: Well obviously Sex + Money: A Global Search for Human Worth; also, Call + Response (dir. Jacob Dylan); Trade (dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner).
18. Heros you look to for inspiration: The Apostle Paul, Johnathan (the son of Saul in the Old Testament), William Wilberforce, Susi Childers, Sarah Mason (my mom), Tim Smith,
19. Organizations, groups you know of effectively addressing the injustice of human trafficking: Night Light Bangkok, IJM, Love 146, Polaris Progect, Gems, Free the Slaves, World Vision, Not for Sale Campaign, photogenX, These Numbers Have Faces, to name a few
20. How the modern-day slave trade will be abolished: “The power of change resides not in the nations chief executive but in the resolve of ordinary people to act in ordinary ways.” We as humans need to explore and define what a human is worth then with that resolve in our hearts fight until every human has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
