Women Featured in “The Hunting Ground” Documentary to Speak at Saint Mary’s
August 25, 2015 (Notre Dame, Ind.)—The Saint Mary’s College Department of Gender and Women’s Studies is proud to announce that Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, whose personal journeys and justice efforts were prominently featured in the documentary “The Hunting Ground,” will speak at Saint Mary’s next month.
Pino and Clark are founders of the organization End Rape On Campus. Their lecture, titled “A Culture of Commitment: Everyday Activism, and Supporting All Survivors,” will take place on Thursday, September 10 at 7 p.m. in Carroll Auditorium of Madeleva Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Andrea PinoThe women offer this presentation to campuses that have an existing conversation about sexual and interpersonal violence. The speakers say they seek to engage students, faculty, and staff on the current activist movement to combat sexual and interpersonal violence. They challenge staff and faculty audiences to engage “beyond compliance” with Title IX requirements and they inspire students to support survivors of all genders and sexual orientations, as well as meet them where they are. The women also encourage something they call “Everyday Activism.”
Annie Clark“‘Everyday Activism’ are actions that create a culture of commitment to survivors, whether as simple as driving your friend to therapy, or offering to help them study, or spending extra time with them during office hours. We envision a world in which we all support survivors holistically, and create a culture that holds us all accountable for ending rape on campus,” Pino explained.
The event is co-sponsored by several groups and departments at Saint Mary’s, the University of Notre Dame and IU South Bend*. On Friday, September 11, faculty and students at Notre Dame will have lunch with the women at noon. At 2 p.m, the women will take part in an open forum at IU South Bend.
Andrea Pino is a co-founder of EROC, and director of policy and support. A first generation college student, she attended The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in Political Science and English, and pursued research around the policy framing of Title IX, and campus violence. With Clark, she filed a Federal Complaint with the Department of Education against UNC before helping found EROC.
Annie E. Clark is a co-founder of EROC, and a lead complainant in the Title IX and Clery complaints against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Political Science. She has a certificate in business, and is a former administrator at the University of Oregon.
*The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at Saint Mary’s College thanks its cosponsors, including: At Saint Mary’s, the Department of History, the Department of Communication Studies, Dance, and Theatre, the Belles Against Violence Office, the Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership, the student group Feminists United, and some alumnae; at IU South Bend, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the Film Studies Program; at the University of Notre Dame, the Gender Relations Center, the Gender Studies Program, the Film, Television, and Theatre Department, the Kroc Center for International Peace Studies and the student group Show Some Skin; and the YWCA of North Central Indiana.
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