Raising Our Voices
Breaking Silence and amplifying change through education, advocacy, and hope for survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking.
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The Red Zone: Understanding Campus Sexual Violence (opens the original)
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Season 2 kicks off with a conversation between Our Voice Executive Director Rita Nugent and Deanna Harrington, Coordinator of Statewide Capacity at the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA). Together they unpack the "Red Zone," the high-risk period between move-in day and Thanksgiving when first-year college students face elevated rates of sexual violence, and why prevention efforts need to focus on the people who cause harm rather than the people who experience it. Rita and D
Disability, Isolation, and the Roots of Sexual Violence in the IDD Community (opens the original)
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Rita talks with disability advocate Ray Hemachandra about why people with intellectual and developmental disabilities face such steep risk for sexual violence and trafficking and why the threat almost never comes from a stranger. They dig into how compliance training backfires, what real consent education looks like within the IDD community, and why seeing disabled people as full, sexual human beings is where prevention actually starts. For a full Transcript of this Episode, click HERE .
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