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The college campus is a deceivingly dangerous place. Every 21 hours there is another rape on an American college campus. According to recent statistics, one in four women in college today has been a rape victim and nearly 90 percent of them knew their rapist. Our goal at the Global Women’s Empowerment Network (GWEN) is...+
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March 11, 2013 – While in Austin for SXSW, Tess Cacciatore, COO and co-founder of GWEN, joined Good Day Austin to talk about GWEN and the SXSW Panel “Changing Lives Through Collaborative Video.” Courageous Average Vote: 0/5 Stars Empowering Average Vote: 0/5 Stars Thoughtful Average...+
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On April 14, Tess Cacciatore, COO and co-founder of GWEN, presented at the ex-TEDx West Hollywood event Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm?, with a roster of 20 outstanding speakers and entertainers, including Marianne Williamson, Paul Nugent, Greg Panos and Daphne Rose Kingma. The event, held at the Vortex Dome in downtown Los Angeles, illuminated...+
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“The same week the Congress voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act last month, at least 15 women and four men were killed by intimate partners,” stated US Attorney General Eric Holder in a press conference held March 13, 2013. The press conference was held in Maryland to announce that the Obama administration will...+
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This International Women’s Day, Brazilians are getting serious about the reality of domestic violence in their country. A series of documentaries portraying the plight of victims in painful detail of high-definition, debuted on March 5 in Brazil’s Congress as part of an awareness campaign against gender violence. Five filmmakers took center-stage as their work received...+
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Tess Cacciatore will participate on the South by Southwest (SXSW) panel “Changing Lives Through Collaborative Video Telling” on Monday, March 11. WeVideo, the cloud-based video software technology provider and GWEN’s partner in the “Tell Us Your Story” campaign, invited Cacciatore to participate along with its company representative Mark Floisand, vice president of sales and marketing...+
On Saturday February 2 “Coming Out Coach” Rick Clemons tackled important issues in the LGBT community, including his work with people struggling to uncover their sexual identity, parents coming out as gay or parents of a gay child, and spouses in mixed-oriented marriages. The author, speaker and dating, life and sex coach shared his personal...+
