Sexual Harassment: When Professional Development Is Compromised

FOR JOURNALISM STUDENTS ONLY

Many students work, have internships, or field placements in a professional work environment where they strive to meet their professional goals daily. When sexual harassment is occurring in an environment where a lot of time is spent, the ability to have growth and experience well-being can become limited. This session will encourage participants to think critically about sexual harassment and possible ways to respond to sexual harassment. Led by Sexual Violence Response staff and volunteers.

Attending this event will satisfy the 2016-2017 Sexual Respect and Community Citizenship Initiative.

Facilitator:

Janeen Mantin joined the staff of Columbia Health in 2015 as a Prevention Coordinator for the Sexual Violence Response & Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence Support Center. She is an alumna of Wells College where she received a B.A. in cross-cultural anthropology and sociology and an alumni of Hunter College where she received an M.S. in Urban Affairs in Community and Neighborhood Development.

Prior to her arrival at Columbia Health, Ms. Mantin worked at the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community (IDVAAC) as a project coordinator on the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstration Initiative, a white house initiative to reduce intimate partner violence homicides and near homicides nationwide. Ms. Mantin has also worked at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh and Black Women’s Blueprint located in Brooklyn, NY on issues related to Violence against Women in culturally specific communities. Her passions lie in cross cultural learning and identities, social justice and anti-oppression, as it relates to varying social factors that impact sexual violence in varying communities.