89.9 FM Live From The University Of New Mexico
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Advocate Pushes For Protections On Film Sets

Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de via Wikimedia Commons
/
CREATIVE COMMONS

Lara Dale was an actress in the 1980s when she got her first big break in a leading role. But that turned into a nightmare when she fled the set after gradually realizing she might be forced into an explicit sex scene. Dale, who now works as a Foley artist, is now a passionate advocate for protecting people on sets. She talks with Megan Kamerick about an initiative to promote sexual harassment training and a hotline through the Rape Crisis Center. 

On Feb. 12 there will be a panel at the Center For Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe - Turning the Tide on Sexual Harassment: A Path Forward - where Dale and the Rape Crisis Center will present proposals for a hotline and sexual harassment training on sets.

Megan has been a journalist for 25 years and worked at business weeklies in San Antonio, New Orleans and Albuquerque. She first came to KUNM as a phone volunteer on the pledge drive in 2005. That led to volunteering on Women’s Focus, Weekend Edition and the Global Music Show. She was then hired as Morning Edition host in 2015, then the All Things Considered host in 2018. Megan was hired as News Director in 2021.