In creating this PSA, I chose the most important factor that I felt kept Melinda from speaking out about her trauma and wrote it on a piece of duct tape that I placed over my mouth as the subject of the photograph. Viewers thus see that isolation is both literally and metaphorically keeping people from breaking the silence about sexual violence. I also supported my understanding of Melinda's isolation with a statistic from RAINN about the reporting of sexual assault, as well as a quote from the text in which Melinda decides not to share her story with her parents because she feels that she cannot connect with them.  Additionally, I chose to place a bar over my eyes to represent the anonymity of survivors who have been unable to tell their stories due to societal factors like isolation that hold them back.