On todayâs show, our guest is Maria Santiago, a survivor of childhood domestic violence or family violence, a protective parent, and a decades long advocate for survivors of intimate partner violence. Â Maria is employed as a violence prevention educator in a NYC non-profit organization and works on elder justice reform in the Latino community as…
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Imagine attending a #BlackLivesMatter organizing meeting and hearing the organizers spout #AllLivesMatter or #BlueLivesMatter as a rallying cry. Imagine going to a Title IX policy workshop that touted itself as a solution to strengthening accountability of campus rape and sexual assaults, then hearing the speakers refer to Brock Turner, not as a convicted rapist, but…
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This is the fifth “Reflections” episode where I examine a series of interviews with my friend, Michael. He joins me as we reflect back on episodes 25 (âBrock Turner for Prisonâ Facebook Group Founders on Rape Culture & #MeToo), 26 (Tammy Cho, Co-Founder of Better Brave on Workplace Harassment and Discrimination),  27 (Council Member Jennifer Gates on…
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On this #SurvivorStories Series episode, we speak with Lana, a protective mother whose failed plight to seek help from the legal and justice systems in New York City for her daughter has led her to find refuge in Russia. Â Lana describes the police, court and child welfare response when she first suspected her toddler daughter…
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In this #SurvivorSeries episode, we speak with Anita Gera, a protective mother from Great Britain. Â In 2014, Anita went to British government to seek protection against her abusive and controlling ex-husband, an American pilot who was based in Arizona. Â Over the next year, through her ex-husband’s misuse of the Hague Convention, Anitaâs case brought her…
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