Sexual Violence 5/5/2025

RCENJC Minutes May 5, 2025.pdf

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Agenda:

6:30 – 6:40 • Opening - Chairperson

Code of Conduct & Stack – Terri Thal

Land Acknowledgment – Petra

Language Translation Option – Andres

6:40 – 6:50 • Dilcia Suazo, Proyecto Faro: Update immigration Issues + note on barriers immigrants have for sexual violence (sv) + noncarceral community resources to support them in healing

6:50 – 7:25 • Juliana Roth, writer, filmmaker, professor, and activist/survivor of sv & higher ed grooming.

Topic: Intersectional issues of sexual violence, sexual violence in policing and prisons, defining restorative and transformative justice perspectives on survivor justice vs carceral feminism, visions for survivor centered change.

7:25 – 7:45 • Dr. Monika Son, former Assistant Professor, Chair, and Director of the Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, trained psychologist, Buddhist Chaplin, Embodied Leadership Coach/trauma-informed relational facilitator, and currently teaching Knowledge & Power: Issues in Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University.

Topic: Discussion of themes in her essay “Reconciling Everyday Heartbreak and Rage with Possibility” in dialogue with JR on forgiveness, one body practice, and what it means to witness.

7:45 – 8:00 • Questions/Discussion

8:00 – 8:05 • Trauma-Informed Moment of Grounding led by Jamie Surya.

8:05 – 8:10 • Action Summary, Bryan

8:10 – 8:20 • Announcements, Rena Finkelstein