Hollaback Bmore does great work to address street harassment in Baltimore, Maryland, from bringing attention to the harassment homeless people face to helping teenagers learn ways to deal with street harassment.
I was honored to join them today as they met with the Baltimore City Health Department to brainstorm ways they could work together to address street harassment in their city. Cross promoting and sharing resources is an immediate way they plan to work together and they may also collaborate on a video project and work toward making an anti-harassment public service announcement campaign a reality.
If you have contacts with local government, it doesn’t hurt to see if they would be interested in talking about street harassment and seeing how their department or entity can address it too. Since street harassment is so complex and touches so many people, chances are there is a logical way for the issue to be incorporated into the work they’re already doing.
Need advice or help on setting up a meeting or planning talking points? Contact me!
