Thank you to everyone who came to the opening night of The Hunting Ground

Ragtag would like to thank everyone for coming to see The Hunting Ground at the Missouri Theatre last night as part of Sexual Assault Awareness month. The Q&A after the film with film subjects Kamilah Willingham (Harvard) and Sofie Karasek (Berkeley) via Skype was informative and empowering. A special thank you to University of Missouri journalism professor Katherine Reed for facilitating the Q&A with panelists Colleen Coble, director of Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, and Danica Wolf of the Relationship & Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) Center at the University of Missouri.

If you missed the opening night show, we are showing it at Ragtag through April 16.

Here are a few of the resources mentioned last night:

Green Dot at Mizzou: http://rsvp.missouri.edu/green-dot/
Community Resource list courtesy of RSVP: http://rsvp.missouri.edu/get-help/community-resources/
True North:  http://www.boonecountysafeshelter.com/index.html

Sofie Karasek is an undergraduate student studying Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley with a minor in Public Policy. After she was sexually assaulted as a college freshman, she filed a federal complaint with the Department of Education against the University of California, Berkeley with 8 other survivors. Prior to working against sexual violence at Berkeley, she led the first door-to-door voter registration drive in Berkeley’s residence halls, fundraised for a recycling campaign in Massachusetts, and organized communications outreach for Cal students working to pass a higher education ballot initiative. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sofie-karasek/

Kamilah Willingham finished her law degree at Harvard and is a Program Associate at Just Detention International. She provides support to the domestic program and survivor outreach teams. Before joining JDI, she worked as an advocate and as a student attorney for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault through Harvard Law School’s Family Law and Gender Violence clinics. She has also worked as a teaching fellow at Harvard University’s Department of Sociology, and has conducted research on human rights, social justice, and gender equality. Kamilah is a certified rape crisis counselor.