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Jennifer Jako (born 1973) is an AIDS activist, filmmaker, photographer, lecturer and designer. She is the co-director of the documentary film, ''Blood Lines'', a portrait of HIV-positive youth. Following her infection with HIV at age 18, she began educating in the hopes of preventing HIV infection in young people. Jako has lectured on the subjects of wellness, reproductive health, survival and understanding to audiences of all ages. She has spoken directly to over 200,000 people and her media outreach has touched over 50 million people. She has been featured in numerous magazines, television shows, and books. Her designed objects are available through retailers under her studio name, fix studio. Together she and husband/co-designer, Christopher Bleiler, have contributed to the branding and interior design of many eateries in the region near Portland, OR, including: clarklewis, Nostrana, Ken's Artisan Pizza & Bakery, Pizzicato Pizza, Lovejoy Bakers, Genoa, Bunk Sandwiches, Daily Cafe, Por Que No II, Vino Manzanita, Thatcher's, and Lapellah. ==Background== She was born in Drumright, Oklahoma, to an Italian mother from Padriciano near Trieste and Hungarian father from Nagykovácsi near Budapest. Jako’s nomadic childhood was abusive, impoverished and sometimes homeless. The countries and states she grew up in include: Oklahoma, Illinois, New York, Colorado, Oregon, Mexico, Canada, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, England, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Turkey and Morocco. She is fluent in Spanish, French, Italian and English and speaks some Hungarian, Dutch and German. She attended Summit County High School in Frisco, Colorado, Glencoe High School in Hillsboro, Oregon, Lake Oswego High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon, and Grant High School in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from the latter in 1992. In 1991, at age 18, she contracted HIV from one exposure from a young man who did not know he was infected. She studied fine art at (Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Plastiques ) in Monte Carlo, Monaco in 1991 and the (Pacific Northwest College of Art ) (PNCA) from 1993-1995 in Portland. After an initial six months of sexual activity at age 18, she became abstinent. She found out she was HIV positive at age 19 from a routine Pap test appointment at which a nurse encouraged her to get tested for HIV as she had had six partners. Jako did not consider herself to be at risk for HIV nor Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and conceded to take the test out of social responsibility. She had had sex without a condom once (the source of infection) and had a condom break once. When diagnosed, she was told she would be lucky to live to age 25. During her studies at PNCA in 1995, she began work with another HIV-positive woman, Rebecca Guberman, on a documentary film, ''Blood Lines'', which would later be broadcast on MTV as ''True Life: It Could Be You'' from 1999–2004. Production assistance came from the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, Wieden & Kennedy and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. It is now distributed as an educational video. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jennifer Jako」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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