Empowerment Self-Defense leaders from the east coast and west coast, from urban and rural areas, from cities and sovereign tribal land came together to connect, collaborate, and strategize.
Empowerment Self-defense Alliance table with Shanda Poitra (Turtle Mountain IMPACT), Meg Stone (IMPACT Boston), Mal Malme (IMPACT Boston), James Decoteau (Turtle Mountain IMPACT), Lauren Taylor (Defend Yourself), and Angie Decoteau (Turtle Mountain IMPACT).
Executive Director Meg Stone and Community Engagement Manager Josh Alba Presenting “Building the Skills to Live Your Values” about de-escalation and empowerment self-defense skills help community safety responders.
Turtle Mountain IMPACT, the first and only Indigenous Led IMPACT program presenting “Resisting Violence and Colonization: Safety and Healing for Rural Indigenous Women and Communities” about how self-defense and cultural revitalization work together to make Indigenous communities safer.
Our friends and collaborators at Defend Yourself in DC have found ways of making empowerment self-defense available virtually to transgender people across the US.
Nicole Snell of Girls Fight Back on what differentiates Empowerment Self-Defense from other approaches.
And Meg Stone, Executive Director, presenting with arts administrator Chris Griffith on Gloucester Stage Company’s extraordinary organizational transformation after a sexual abuse crisis.
