2020 Dignity Workshop 21: Message to the World — Prevent Domestic Violence
Channel: Evelin Lindner
Date: 2020-12-14

This is a "Message to the World" about the rise of domestic violence in the United States of America, created by Anna Strout on November 15, 2020, for the 17th Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict at Columbia University in New York City, December 10 – 12, 2020. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this conference had to take place online. This is a PSA (PSA = a public service announcement in the public interest disseminated without charge, with the objective of raising awareness). See also a small poster at https://humiliationstudies.org/documents/StroutDomesticViolence2020.pdf

This video shows how this message was embedded into Day Three of this workshop: https://youtu.be/h4RwQeOY7Mo .

"Messages to the World" are a contribution to the World Dignity University Library of Ideas to be shared with the world and, hopefully, inspirational for future generations. 

Anna Strout works with youth empowerment, arts education, social justice and activism. Since 2009, she serves as a program producer for Voices of a People's History (https://peopleshistory.us/), a non-profit arts, education and social justice organization, engaged in the production of live performances and educational programs that bring to life the extraordinary history of ordinary people who built the movements for social justice. Actors, poets, musicians and activists give voice to the dramatic and eloquent history of political struggle and protest in the United States, from its earliest history to the present day. Since 2003, there have been more than 100 Voices performances and community programs around the United States, Europe, and Australia. 
Anna produces and casts educational programs and performances for their many partner organizations from high schools to universities, from unions to performing arts centers, and develops new programs and artist engagement models. Partner organizations include: Lincoln Center, SummerStage, 400 Years of Inequality, National Nurses United, The Maxine Greene School of Imaginative Inquiry, The New School, New York University, UCLA, etc.
Strout also advises on fundraising, events, community programs, and publicity efforts for Middle Way House (https://middlewayhouse.org/), an organization that works to end domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking through an empowerment model. 
Strout is a global core member of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network.

See more on: 
- www.humiliationstudies.org
- www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting/35.php
- www.worlddignityuniversity.org