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Welcome Our New Volunteer!

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I’m excited to welcome our new volunteer social media and website manager!

Meghna Bhat, PhD (she/her/hers), a former SSH blog correspondent, will be helping SSH for the next few months, primarily managing our twitter and instagram accounts and the blog! Yay!

Meghna is a pro bono gender and social justice scholar and educator whose work is informed by being a survivor of sexual violence and street harassment, a first-generation immigrant from India, and South Asian woman. Meghna has 14 years of extensive work experiences both in campus and community settings, ranging from interdisciplinary gender violence research and writing, program administration and consultation, education, and community organizing.

She worked at the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) in the PreventConnect program for a year. Meghna is honored to have recently joined the Board of Directors at the National Girls and Women of Color Council, Inc. She received her PhD in Criminology, Law, and Justice from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) with a specialization in Gender and Women Studies.

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Spanish Translation Volunteer Opportunity

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Can you speak/write in English and Spanish? Do you want to help address street harassment? Here’s a perfect volunteer opportunity for you, if so!

This summer, we’ll be partnering with the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) and Defend Yourself (DY) to launch the first-ever national street harassment hotline. The hotline will be offered 24/7. As part of the set-up, DY and I am preparing materials that will be used by RAINN’s staff when they take calls. Because the hotline will be offered in both Spanish and English, we need to translate some of our materials into Spanish for the RAINN staff to use with Spanish-speaking callers.

There are about a dozen web pages or articles that would need to be translated into Spanish by June 15. Here are three examples:

https://stopstreetharassment.org/about/what-is-street-harassment/ | https://stopstreetharassment.org/strategies/moment/ | https://medium.com/@hkearl/five-reasons-why-street-harassment-is-serious-15221720f1b7

Let me know if you would have any time in the next 2.5 weeks and be willing to translate one or two (or more) of these items. It would be a huge, huge help. And not only will the translated information be used to help the hotline callers, but it will be posted on the SSH website period, so Spanish speakers coming to the website would be able to gain more information than they can currently because of your help.

In return, I’ll list you in an acknowledgements section on the forthcoming hotline page and also send you some SSH swag in the mail as a thank you!

You can contact me at hkearl @ stopstreetharassment . org. Thanks! – Holly

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Happy Near Year 2016!

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Happy New Year, from my #HoundsAgainstHarassment!*#houndsagainstharassment new years

The SSH team looks forward to working with you all on various efforts to help make public spaces safer for all.

There are three ways you could immediately take action:

  1. Share your story for the blog.
  2. Apply to be a monthly blog correspondent from January to April 2016.
  3. Plan to participate in International Anti-Street Harassment Week, April 10-16!

* Thanks to my aunt Tanya for taking the pic and creating the collage.

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