This presentation will be led by Jimmie Briggs, an Athena Fellow, Barnard Medal of Distinction recipient, and award-winning journalist and educator. It will take place Wednesday, November 19, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. in the Milliken Auditorium. The event is free to students and $15 for community members. Tickets can be purchased at the Dennos Museum Box Office.
This is an NMC Global Opportunities event in partnership with the NMC Student Life Office and NMC’s International Education Week. Please join us to address shared challenges and concerns, to listen to fellow community members, and engage with one another.
About the Event
On September 19, 2014, President Obama made a call for colleges and universities to “change the culture that allows assault to happen.”
Man Up: Stopping Violence towards Women through Youth and Social Advocacy brings together members of the NMC and Northern Michigan communities to engage in meaningful dialogue about the role of men as allies in shifting the culture that enables sexual violence towards women around the world. Jimmie Briggs, co-founder and executive director of the Man Up Campaign, will lead this discussion on sexual and gender based violence through a compelling narrative of personal experiences that stand testament to the critical importance of teaching men and boys of all ages how to address these issues. Weaved throughout the evening will be comparisons of advocacy initiatives around the world from which participants can draw inspiration and learn to cultivate and strengthen allyship between people of all genders.
Jimmie Briggs
Over the past two decades, Jimmie Briggs has earned a reputation as a respected human rights advocate, journalist, and lecturer. Through extensive travels to countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, the St. Louis, Missouri-native and graduate of Morehouse College has produced seminal reporting on the lives of war-affected youth and children soldiers, as well as survivors of sexual violence. A National Magazine Award finalist and recipient of honors from the Open Society Institute, National Association of Black Journalists and the Carter Center for Mental Health Journalism, his book on child soldiers and war-affected children Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War won him accolades in 2005, and took readers into the personal journeys of war-affected youth. Further, Briggs has served as an adjunct professor of investigative journalism at the New School for Social Research, and was a George A. Miller Visiting Professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois: Champaign-Urbana. A regular contributor to the daily news website, Loop 21.com, his upcoming book Blood Work, is a meditation on manhood and transformation through the lens of illness. For his work with Man Up Campaign and the issue of violence against women, Briggs was selected as the winner of the 2010 GQ Magazine “Better Men Better World” Search, as well as one of Women’s eNews’ 21 Leaders for the 21st Century in 2011.