More than half of all people in the USA who have experienced street harassment said they experienced it by the time they were 17 years old. That’s one reason why it’s so important to talk to teenagers about street harassment.
Our board member Manuel Abril is a prevention educator in video/art programming and community organizing at Our Family Services in Tucson, AZ. In this capacity, he has worked as sexual violence prevention educator for 7 years with Safe Streets AZ and developed social creativity projects with Hey Baby | Art Against Sexual Violence and ACT OUT youth film program.
He and the teenagers he works with made this video for the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence.