Jackie Northrup, assistant director of the Women’s Resource Center, began working with the center in August and said the Student Leadership Council helped develop the panel.
“It has truly been a pleasure working with the Student Leadership Council in these first few months,” Northrup said. “[They] wanted to empower UA students to identify and intervene in situations before they become dangerous. They identified this as an important life skill and decided to assemble a panel of students to offer information in a peer-to-peer format.”
Maury Holliman, a junior majoring in psychology, is a member of the Student Leadership Council whose involvement with the Women’s Resource Center precedes her involvement on the council.
“I got involved with the WRC through a program called the Young Women’s Leadership Program, where we mentor fifth grade girls in a local elementary school on the concept of women becoming leaders and the hardships that we face,” Holliman said.
Holliman said the panel’s goal is to help the community learn more about the issue of dating and domestic violence, and show them what they can do to help.
“We hope that the impact of our panel will be at least one more person walking away with the knowledge and skills to intervene if they are ever in a bystander situation,” Holliman said.
The panel will also include a Q-and-A session for audience members.
