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.
