WHERE STUDENTS LEARN TO CHANGE THE WORLD
SUMMIT ON
SEXUAL ASSAULT AND CONSENT
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t the end of November 2020, GDS hosted the fifth annual Summit on Sexual Assault and Consent, the largest to date and the only to be held exclusively online. GDS student leaders, under the guidance of a team of GDS faculty and staff members, created 391 personal schedules for student, faculty, parent, administrator, and counselor attendees from across the country. The conference offered nearly 70 different workshops over two days plus smaller cohort meetings, facilitated by GDS students, to continue connecting and sharing experiences throughout the weekend. The two dozen members of the Summit leadership team provided options for attendees to learn through historical, legal, and artistic lenses; invited attendees to consider athletics cultures or the places faith traditions collide with human dignity and basic feminist principles; and offered inspiration to carry back to their communities.
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Cheyenne Tyler Jacobs
I hope that everything you got out of today—whether that is new information, whether that is community, whether that is a new website and new Instagram page, whatever it may be—you use it, not only for your community but for yourself because at the end of the day, community healing starts right here, with who you are.”
