00:00Hello, my name's Carlotta Allam and I am a PhD student at Central St Martins, but I also run my
00:09own charity and I have done for almost 20 years.
00:12I founded my charity out of a personal life experience.
00:17I was a trained art teacher, but I spent some time in prison and I couldn't get a job.
00:22So I started working with prisoners because I wanted to put something back because I realised how lucky I was.
00:29And I worked with prisoners trying to bring art and culture into their lives.
00:34I used my master's in museums and education to work with artists and bring objects and storytelling in a way
00:42into their lives.
00:42And then I found digital storytelling and it was the perfect culmination of everything that I was trying to do.
00:50So for the last 10 years, I've been working in storytelling with prisoners.
00:55And I'm lucky enough to be practice led and fully funded as a PhD candidate at Central St Martins because
01:02I worked with them and they saw what I was doing and the effect it was having on the prisoners.
01:06I'm really passionate about tapping into the authentic voice of the prisoner.
01:13So I started by using my own experience and that makes me a credible messenger, which is something I've only
01:22discovered since my research has started, how important that is and how credible messengers and people with lived experience should
01:32be using their experience to give back.
01:35You
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