Tag: Sports

  • Sharing here three posts about my ‘cool, fun job’ and my volunteer work in the Atlanta community and beyond. That last part being the only reason I agree to do these sorts of things. First and foremost, I want other…

    Some Local Love for Your Girrrll
  • I’m introducing a new recurring feature where I will post an article I’ve read about interpersonal or sexual violence, and I will assign it a grade for the language it uses to describe the crime, the victim and the person…

  • Posting this here for now and promise a follow up soon. I have been working so, so hard to make some long-held dreams come true and I talk about it here with my co-worker Sarah Spain, host of the ESPN…

    The One Where I’m on a Podcast for ESPN
  • On Wednesday, I gave a presentation on The Language of Violence to my coworkers. That day was a very long time in coming – six years, to be exact. Ever since I became trained as a crisis counselor and victims…

    A Day as Big as My Dreams
  • (Read these tweets bottom up) Just consolidating some tweets here from an interaction I had this morning with a few men in a local Panera. News broke this week of Oregon State pitcher Luke Heimlich being a registered sex offender…

    The Weight of the Words We Use
  • On Tuesday, March 14, I was asked to participate in a panel discussion at the MOSAIC symposium hosted by the Atlanta Hawks. The invitation was a complete surprise and one that I was thankful to receive from Nzinga Shaw, the…

    Recent Speech: Atlanta Hawks and Me
  • This time last Sunday night, I was wrapping up a PowerPoint for U of Pittsburgh female student-athletes. I had been invited to speak to them about sexual violence and decision-making, and I had SO MUCH to tell them. Whittling my…

    The Future is Pittsburgh