{"id":10276,"date":"2014-10-31T16:48:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T20:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=10276"},"modified":"2014-10-31T16:49:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T20:49:58","slug":"man-up-stopping-violence-towards-women-through-youth-and-social-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=10276","title":{"rendered":"Man Up: Stopping Violence towards Women through Youth and Social Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10280 size-medium\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Man-UP-Banner2-300x107.jpg\" alt=\"Man UP Banner2\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Man-UP-Banner2-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Man-UP-Banner2-1024x367.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Man-UP-Banner2-600x215.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Man-UP-Banner2-1080x387.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>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\u200b, from 7:00 &#8211; 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.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>This is an NMC Global Opportunities event in partnership with the NMC Student Life Office and NMC&#8217;s International Education Week.\u00a0Please join us\u00a0to address shared challenges and concerns, to listen\u00a0to fellow community members, \u200band engage with one another.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About the Event<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On September 19, 2014, President Obama made a call for colleges and universities to \u201cchange the culture\u00a0that allows assault to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u200bMan Up: Stopping Violence towards Women through Youth and Social Advocacy brings together members of the\u00a0NMC and\u00a0Northern Michigan\u00a0communities\u00a0to engage in meaningful dialogue about the role of men as allies in shifting the culture that enables sexual \u200bviolence towards women around the world.\u00a0 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.\u00a0Weaved 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Jimmie Briggs<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Over the past two decades, Jimmie Briggs has earned a reputation as a respected human rights advocate, journalist, and lecturer.\u00a0 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\u00a0Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War\u00a0won 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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/21.com\/\">21.com<\/a>, his upcoming book\u00a0Blood 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 \u201cBetter Men Better World\u201d Search, as well as one of Women\u2019s eNews\u2019 21 Leaders for the 21st\u00a0Century in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u200b, from 7:00 &#8211; 8:30 p.m. in the Milliken Auditorium. The event is free to students and $15 for community members. 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