There are many connections to be made with animal rights and the anti-gender-based violence movements, including pushing for pet-friendly laws and policies that support survivors of violence. Join us for a conversation about current innovations that address this particular barrier to justice for animals and human victims of violence.

In this conversation about the Power & Control Wheel, advocates, survivors, and upstanders will gain critical insight into how domestic violence is reinforced by systems and social norms.

Hear their powerful stories about why Sarah Super and Lori Greene created the Survivors Memorial, and how its creation has changed their lives and impacted legions of survivors.

In this conversation with survivors and professional advocates, we will talk about what individuals and systems can do to practice survivor-centered, trauma-informed responses that respect and support those who have experienced sexual violence.

In this groundbreaking conversation we will revisit the concept of torture as it relates to gender-based violence, and speak with those leading an emergent movement to recognize and treat domestic violence as non-state torture.

It’s imperative that systems advocates, workplaces, and banks understand the seemingly invisible dynamics of intimate partner economic abuse, and how changing practices that result in unequal power dynamics can give survivors the economic empowerment they need to lead lives free from violence.

This panel will discuss speakers' work advocating for the rights of criminalized survivors, their lived experiences with prisons and the criminal justice system, and how gendered abuses make women more vulnerable to incarceration.

Men engaged in dismantling patriarchy and challenging the gender binary will discuss at this event how they’ve interrogated the beliefs they learned as children, and how it has informed their current professional work seeking to end injustice.

What survivors say they need for support may surprise you, and the ways you can be an “upstander” instead of “bystander” is doable and meaningful.

This conversation will center around African activists, leaders, and changemakers in the field of women’s rights, focusing on their perspectives on gender equality and systematic approaches to addressing gender-based violence (GBV).

Legal advocate Jess Braverman and advocacy director Erin Maye Quade from Gender Justice, and Andrea Jenkins, who made history as the first African American openly trans woman to be elected to office in the United States, are leading voices in LGBTQ liberation.

This series of videos from PreventConnect features Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff who will walk through key findings from the 2023-2024 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) and explore what they mean for prevention practice.