i can't wait to hear from republicans. >> we do have them coming in this building, they're very welcome. believe it or not -- that is not a joke. believe it or not, college republicans and democrats were in the same space. [talking over each other] >> it is fabulous to set example. [talking over each other] >> or democrats. >> and master's. and yesterday i was also invited -- >> how am i doing? >> amazing. >> the question is yesterday in

one of our classes we were talking about the defense that feminism was in the 70s and now how it is dormant but still alive. do you see what we can do to give the extra push, that it is the time for women to wake up and not just us but our partners, husbands, fathers, brothers, cousins because the feminist movement is not just about women but keeping up that balance. how do you see us and bringing that light back into the movement? my sister is going to college but there like we are not feminists like you, yes you are because you are going college. [talking over each other] >> how do you define feminist? >> we can spend the rest of the day talking about that. to me it is very simple, we are all made in the image and

likeness of our creator and we are all sacred adhere to love each other and be equal. it is very simple. >> what has happened is that bird has been used to denote something in the media, that a lot of women don't want to identify with. even very strong women who are educated leaders and they be is not even the word that is so important, but what people -- >> there is a great book called a little f'd up, how feminism became a 30 word. i don't know how to pronounce the last name, she came to my awareness when i wrote an essay last year called the conversation and it was my first experience with something going viral. was quite extraordinary. i wrote it in 22 minutes. i channel that from a higher

power and i knew that there was a movement with this as a but when she published her peace in forbes she had all these additional textures and dimensions to expand made me aware of the book she had written, highly recommended for your age and anyone, a really super book. >> my name is ellen bonaparte and i am a student here. and after many years -- >> the millennium goals, a few of them will be met and most of them not. and right now a conversation, moving on to other goals. make gender equality, let's do

something else. i wonder what your thoughts might be, whether we should sustain efforts in the goals that we have, or we move on to something else. >> giving my mother i kisses. [talking over each other] >> make sure everybody in the room knows, does anyone know what the development goals are? [talking over each other] >> we must continue to pursued gender inequality and eliminating maternal mortality, and do some original math and graduate school and ran some

numbers on the number of unintended pregnancies that will happen among women in the democratic republic of condo that would return to have access to modern family and was then 2010-2015 and that is the work of women of reproductive age alone, eighty-nine million babies. and accomplish those goals. >> interesting the goal setting is difficult because if you set the bar too low, and -- challenging enough. it is progress, not perfection and i really love what melinda gates is doing about family planning and her great-tag on twitter and slogan no controversy. when we allow girls and women to have medically active sex

education, when we teach abstinence and the ability to reestablish abstinence, we all have the opportunity to make that personal decision reestablished abstinence, being faithful to one's partner, consistent contraceptive use and access to the type that is right for each individual and couple and made and added years ago and this is a delay of sexual debut. that takes appropriate conversations that appropriate time for appropriate people. the idea that we can prevent unintended pregnancy is still important because of abortion then becomes obsolete and that is absolutely the goal and what is desirable. >> that sounds good for the teenager sitting here.

>> next question. >> i am a graduate with a bachelor's and i am now an attorney and work with community health centers. my real passion -- i spent the summer and lebanon. no matter of the work we did and the stories we heard there were stories about how the laws, for example repeating their passports were transferred to the country and where they had taken them. i was curious about your experience about the intersection between public policy -- >> it is diabolical. i am very glad to have authorized the violence against women act and within that was the trafficking victim protection act which helps ameliorate some of those double

standards within the american law. so when help is the building block of all sustainability, when a girl was healthy she can go to school, she can stay in school, when she has her period and there's a latrine and there is what she needs for her hygiene she can stay in school and every year a girl stays in school she has her first child at an older age, fewer children, her earning capacity skyrockets exponentially, she contributes to her family, her community, a way to lift nations out of poverty and when you have laws like your friends, because girls are very vulnerable in that

situation, so lots out there, direct civic participation, and land ownership, an incredible woman i met in not brothel in nairobi, a young girl, she ended up there, her mother died of hiv which she contracted, married women are vulnerable, then her dad died, her dad's people kick her off of the land because he had no legal right to it and she ended of a brothel pregnant with her second child while still breastfeeding the first one. changing laws is incredible and the organization's, women for women international who help in that and i appreciate you bringing it up and that is an amazing, public health and an attorney, good for you. >> if you are interested in knowing more about slavery in the united states are recommend looking at the polaris project

website. it was started by -- you guys can change the world. it is amazing what you can do. they didn't know how difficult it is to pass laws in congress because they were so young and the trafficking laws passed in this country and they were largely responsible, traffic victims -- you know what i mean, the one thing that will end up in the paper. i highly recommend it. i would even suggest asking, a very inspiring place. and possibly a place that is centered. >> good afternoon. i am meredith waters, a current senior and brad -- undergrad. from conversation he mentioned how import your faith is to you. i'm wondering how we can finance that to improve health globally and what challenges are

encountered regarding sexual and reproductive health. >> wonderful question. i love your question. that is one of the things i talk to you about because it is hard work. i don't just mean in terms of the hours that we put in and cognitively the uptake. it is emotionally hard work. is hard to be with people when they are suffering even -- i have been taught it is abusive to point out of a problem without pointing out a solution. my work in america and abroad, i am just a surrogate for the people who are doing the grass-roots work and for some reason people are willing to tell me their stories. i receive their sacred narrative which goes back to the beginning of sitting around the fire telling our stories, and what became essentials for me, celebrated those people too

because that is where hope comes from. >> meredith. >> what i had to do was find a state that would work for me under all conditions or simply displaced camps. in an emergency room, in a brothel, in a labor slave camp, in an orphanage, do you know how hard it is to walk out of an orphanage? my hands, i can feel the weight of the babies i left behind. to have two little sisters both of whom are orphaned asked me if i would bring the home to america because they know america is where dreams come true. they know america is a place girls and women can reach their potential and later realized there was something they had practiced because they so wanted to come to america with me.

that is a spiritual death. i lose god, i don't understand god and there's always something that brings me back weathered his conversation with a friend or spiritual director or a piece of scripture or a poem, that is -- i don't want any of you to burnout, a tragedy to burn out. [talking over each other] >> i would have been hurt by going to hollywood. i came home, got a master's, went back and ran animal husbandry and fish for central africa and became country director in one of the most difficult countries in the world, democratic republic of congo and did remarkable things while they're. speaking of religion and faith, when we first met and international treat some years ago we were talking about exactly this.

how do you not burnout? she said public health is my religion. so whatever works for you, work it. >> hello. from kentucky -- [talking over each other] >> no way! [talking over each other] >> i am -- [inaudible] -- i am finishing and i also felt inspired by appellation, they want to pursue public health, health disparities. it plagues our homes and i just wanted to ask, in a lot of

gendered classes we talk about what is the best way to address gender inequalities? is it top down? do you start with government? is the grassroots? do you want to know where it is? >> it is both. it is both. >> thank you for that question, thank you for sharing that. >> i am elizabeth barnett, i was fortunate this summer to travel to india, we were there for two weeks and was struck the full time by the amount of garbage in india. and so my question is how do we get anyone to care about their health when the first thing they need to care about or publicly

care about is the trash that got put in front of their house and don't have running water? to me that seems base and if we can't get back, can't expect to care about this, for anyone to care about that. i wonder for your travels what you have seen and what your thoughts are. >> my thought is that you found your pick and you should stick with your pick and what i mean is we all have to find the thing that makes us mad. the thing that gives us the fire and ability and passion and stamina and this is from a good eastern kentucky and my godmother, a heavy hand in my face and volvo she lived in san francisco, her fans your friends will like what is that all

about? it is my paid. it became a slogan for this is my thing. sounds like garbage has become your thing. go with it. i agree with you about the garbage. i have had the privilege to sit with literally three generations and it was one of the most bonding -- when i left the grandmother she hugged me and said you will always be my granddaughter. it was things like separating, a little piece of copper, exchange that for some money and if you are interested in -- in which girls and women disproportionately participate there is a really great stuff going on particularly in central america. >> the other day i watched a

friend from brazil, that -- do it in india. [talking over each other] >> i was so in awe, give you a name of a professor with expertise. i was in her office, need to bring the anxiety down. you people have that effect on us. you do. >> simply a little bit of anxiety. >> choking up. >> i am a former student, now a full student, i worked at big research partners. we do a lot of public opinion

research around the issues, this has been so bad for us but i wanted to go back to what you said earlier about sexual violence and the importance of speaking out, naming violence for what it is. is important and critical to this movement. i was wondering what you thought about situations in which the survivor or in some cases the victim, the person is still happening to is dependent on their perpetrator in such a way that speaking out is impossible. this happens a lot in the u.s. military. >> absolutely. we are better than that. it has got to stop. >> my question is do you have any thoughts about policies or how to address that issue specifically? >> such a great question. you are familiar with military sexual trauma. first of all, i would identify

multiple ways in which a girl and woman is dependent upon her perpetrator. there is economically and then there is the wheel of violence and control, the duluth model. if you don't know what, check out on line. shows if we were talking about a spectrum of violence, there is the subtle, the covert, and it travels the spectrum to lack of respect for our bodily integrity and sexual autonomy. if we can start here, identifying and correcting the agreeing that is in fact a form of gender violence we can start disrupting it here so doesn't have to progress all the way to such extreme physical violence. trauma bonding is perhaps the most under discussed part of

this. there is some understanding that if all woman is dependent on her abuser for income for what feels like protection of her children, that is a concept we get but when a woman is psychologically bonded with her perpetrator and lives in that extraordinary cage of fear there is more victim blaming that goes on and that is part of what i am interested in. is anybody doing work on that in the room? and have i inspired you to? and then i had the opportunity to direct something in november and it was about military sexual trauma and i was so pleased. it is called call me crazy and my particular one is about a veteran, and i was able to learn

a lot, most of the extraordinarily dismaying. i highly recommend the documentary called the invisible work on this subject and really celebrate their courage because there are women who are raped in the military and charged with infidelity and not even married so it is a big problem. there has been problem -- progress in congress, senator jim brand has been helpful to that. when the investigator, prosecution, the defense, the jury and the community is appointed and controls, we make no progress and as glad as i am that women are permitted in combat, my first fear is there will be more rates because there will be additional women to have the capacity to address in the military. we are better than that.

i know women in the military who don't go to the bathroom in the middle of the night because sexual assault in a latrine is so common. this is unacceptable in the united states of america. you are going to be part of the solution. you brought a. you now have the responsibility. >> i am an epidemiologist. >> i love epidemiologists. epidemiologists! i got his slam dunk education by one of the greatest epidemiologists in world. it is numbers, it is facts. >> going back to the sexual violence and gender violence, what we talked about on college campuses, i found it hard, women

get into power, women learn more xbox and are constantly brought back. how do we keep ourselves going? how do i constantly want to do more and prevented from happening again, yet feel pushed back, and spoke openly because i know that is one in four. i could count on my graduating class. it was a small school. i could count because we were talking about it. it shouldn't happen on a college campus because there's the statistics that if you don't go to college you are less likely in that age group to have an assault. >> that is so messed up. you put it well. >> thank you for sharing that and thinks the you for sharing so openly. i see so many faces around the

room. i know it helps us all being able to open up and as you say be able to not push it back. is so important what you said about not pushing it back. thank you so much. >> what comes from the head goes over the head and what goes to the heart goes straight to the heart and the greatest journey is 18 inches to connect the two. >> my name is coz sandra and i am graduate of global health program and i work at the fda right now. so many questions i have i don't know where to store. you are the first famous person i have ever met, hello. my father is still in love with you. >> that hockey poster. >> my question might come first. hearing all of these stories

about women placed in these positions of violence as victims really disturbs me and it should be your pick because if one of four students are being abused, people who are the aggressors are the boys on campus here, all of the young men students statistically who's going to do except people around them. if you look at the room here, talking about feminism and being interested in gender studies and learning about empowering women and people, we are all women for the most part. why are we not using our resources at the school to appeal to more young men to become part of the program? >> a good point and interesting the next person that the mic is mail. >> good for you. it is a good point. >> i would just mention the

mentoring violence prevention program. are you familiar with that? is an initiative that reaches out to boys on campus, young men with a lot of social capital and teachers about that spectrum of violence and how to use their voice to disrupt in their peer group. we are talking male to male alliances that isolate and diminish the voice of girls and so i suggest you take a look at the mentoring violence prevention program. >> may i squeeze in another question? my question if you will roll with it, what kind of resistance have you met from women? either cultural, social or economic? when have you experienced in your work, may be gone opposition from women? >> for example, female genital mutilation, sometimes there are

very strict cultural ties to that. >> some times when our task with enforcing the rules in society that are difficult for women and for whatever reason, out of fear perhaps that if the daughter was outside the grove that she will be harmed or at a concern for being protected but they also have that role of being in the first line, and forcing whatever rules there are in a society and sometimes it does seem paradoxical that essentially women who are communicating. money talks. one of my miners was cultural anthropology. that doesn't mean that there is

a place in the twenty-first century for harmful traditional practices like female genital mutilation. one of the things that has been effective is to take the female genital mutilation is for whom it is a big cultural legacy and initiative responsibility and give them an alternate stream of income and all of a sudden they don't have to rely on it for their survival and they're thinking is open to some changes. that is an example of economic empowerment and when you ask about my personal experience i would refer you to that essay the conversation because that is how i experienced and that is part of the deal, divide and conquer, my god, there was this horrible thing recently, my family of origin, my family of choice, telling me about something she heard in our small

rural community, it was a post that said men, don't bother to try to understand women. women understand each other and they hate each other. are you kidding me? and strong female to female alliancees are so important and i wedding courage you to cultivate them as if your life depended on it because it does. kranick sine is initially had surgery which worked extremely well and there was this horrible extended repeated chronic sinusitis. two or three rounds of steroids and a puffy face and all of a sudden women everywhere were saying it was so contradictory that there was plastic surgery or i hadn't had enough and it

was just nuts and that is what i wrote that as a. i was referring to that a strong female to female lions because your wife does depend on it. >> i am sorry i didn't see. >> i am a freshman here. i grew up in the summer, regular summer, i heard the statistic like one in three women will be sexually assaulted and that was just a statistic. then i come to college and so many of my female friends come to me and they told me how they have been sexually assaulted and the first time it was face to face. none of my friend had come to me and told me that, go to the proper authorities, good to anybody for device, they did deal with it. at the university, such great resources, the crisis center and so many resources but none of

them want to go to and my question is why do they not want to go to and what can i in the position they put me in try to help them? >> you can ask them why they don't want to go and take them by the hand. >> this need to encourage, to seek out. as far as we have come, that even in the u.s. is still in grain, something like that happens to us, maybe people will think we did something. >> most responses are not victim center can it sounds like you have some good resources that are. have the opportunity to be familiar with the san francisco center for child abuse prevention and it is national if your interested in such, please check it out. prof. madeleine albright's daughter katie is one of the

moving forces there and they're creating a facility so that when a victim comes forward she is only interviewed once and every person who needs to be part of the process is fair because retailing the story is traumatizing. there is the rape and the rate after the rape. the idea that the investigator, the social worker, all of the police can all be there and it is handled with appropriate sensitivity as a person tries to debrief something that is so traumatic is how we should move forward with this and more people will feel comfortable. it is difficult but they will feel comfortable sharing their story. a personal anecdote a friend of mine's daughter was gang raped and she obviously was absolutely wild with grief and horror and she did all the things she thought were the right things,

took her daughter to the emergency room and told one series of care givers and staff changed and she had to tell the story again and then there was all this stuff about insurance and all this crap and the police showed up and at the end of the day they said you are in the wrong county and her mother did not press charges and -- >> the number of people at the mike, only a few more minutes. what i am going to do is if we can move quickly -- [talking over each other] >> interrupt the peace. [inaudible] >> each of you ask your question briefly and we will see if there's a theme. we will go one, 3, 4 and turn things over.

let's go. [inaudible] >> i have a wonderful opportunity to work on the project. but my passion is in central africa. my question is as someone who has traveled to the condo and experienced years of oppression in that country and it is a common theme using rape as a weapon of war. but how do we address issues around child survival and mortality when people are faced with conflict and political instability on a daily basis? >> love that question. love that question. >> fostering democracy and helping countries build democratic institutions. [talking over each other] >> i was thinking of the same thing. >> imus student in grover help

and my question is sexual violence against women in general is always related to improving gender equality and improving things like that but racism is never really brought into that realm. with that disparity, people are reluctant to talk about it and if they do talk about it is in an abstract and helpful way that never gets to the root of the problem. it is so integral to summoning women, a subject no one wants to pursue. >> i'm public health students, i get nervous in front of a telephone. >> lot more nervous than we all are. >> there are people here that if you don't give a rat's's you know what about public health. >> talking lot about silence,

and the perspective that we have been focusing on violence on college campuses but goes to a much earlier face in life so how do you propose adjusting get from a life perspective? and a story about baltimore related to violence and teen pregnancy that men or young men felt that they needed to pass on their dna because violence was so rampant in their communities that it was causing high rates of pregnancy. >> i am a health policy -- my question is more domestically focused because you may be running for political office but i am not asking about that. i am wondering what your

perspective is, in a country that is extremely polarized politically and i am wondering how to address poverty such as racism, gender equality, health disparities, how do we just these issues and move forward? >> how you made that into one question i am not sure but dying to see. there is definitely a very powerful theme that has emerged and that is violence against women and i appreciate your awareness and passion and understanding. when they are constrained in any way, health, economically, and families in society.

that is definitely a theme. with regard to -- i am all for our country showing our might. i am also for is showing others our compassion and the brilliance of the idea of democracy and there are things that we can do to help failed states strengthen their institutions and to foster democracy. our foundation is very good at that. the national democratic institute is very good at that. as i said the answer is both. from the top down and the bottom up. if we are talking about a place like condo which is that mineral rich country it is all about abusive mineral extraction and there's such a legacy of corruption that literally the officials don't know how not to

be corrupt. so good governance, go get it. it is crucial, it is crucial. i really like the perspective, the average age of prostitution in this country is 12. and all of them are survivors of spousal abuse. we have to start disrupting that immediately. we talked about this kind of stuff a lot, nobody -- was just the way things were. a lot of love in our family. i lived alone for two years growing up in two different states. i live in a rural hot house in tennessee by myself. i realize that is not working so well so i need to go somewhere else and i jumped from the frying pan into the fire. we have a wonderful

relationship. and he left the states. no one ever noticed. not a guidance counselor, not a teacher. one neighbor reached out to me, she said there's something going on. i thought she was rich because she had cinemax. she listened to me after school. it is about recognition. it is about voice. it is about victor centric policies and ultimately about empowerment and gender equality. that does include eliminating racism and all of its iterations. >> all i can do at this point is bless you. it has been wonderful to have you visit with us here today and the work that you do with women and children everywhere, is fabulous. we do have something for you, a little thank-you gift.

it says school of public health and health services. it is not much. >> thank you so much. thank you. [applause] >> i hope you will come back. [talking over each other] >> what to do with this pack. >> don't wait. >> i will not. or underground, visit us there. our great appreciation. it is fabulous. >> standing ovation. [applause] >> thanks, everybody.

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