Index
Location
CALCASA hosted the 2008 Leadership Conference from May 28th to 30th, 2008 at the Sacramento Sheraton Grand Hotel. For conference details, please see our registration brochure registration brochure or conference program.
Tuesday Keynote Address
Jessmaya Morales, Co-Director, Girl Fest San Francisco Bay Area
Jessmaya Morales is an artist, housepainter, educator, and organizer. She holds bachelor's degrees in Art and Women's Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and has lived in the Bay Area for eight years. Some of her passions are creativity in all of its forms, working toward social justice, and raising awareness about state, environmental, and personal violence against women. She has worked with teen girls in foster care and special needs children, taught first grade in Honduras, helped coordinate and wrote a grant for the first queer youth camp in Santa Cruz, CA, co-coordinated an art and education program through the International Museum of Women in San Francisco facilitating workshops with children and youth all over the bay area around the topics of women's rights, body image, women and war, and literacy, and has worked on the faculty of several national youth leadership conferences.
Jessmaya is currently the Administrator at Equal Rights Advocates, a non-profit law firm working to protect and secure equal rights and economic opportunities for women and girls through litigation and advocacy. She is the volunteer Co-Director of Girl Fest Bay Area, an annual event focused on preventing violence against women and girls through education and art.
Girl Fest is a project of The Safe Zone Foundation, and was initially launched in Hawai'i in 2003. Incorporating film, music, visual art, spoken word, and dance, Girl Fest brings together artists, community organizations, and activists into festivals in Hawai'i and the Bay Area that include performance, panel discussions, film and workshops for youth and adults. Jessmaya's work with Girl Fest began when she coordinated the film festivals at Girl Fest Bay Area and Girl Fest Hawai’i in 2006. She became Co-Director of Girl Fest Bay Area in 2007, and continues to seek out new ways to do anti-violence work.
Performance by the Loco Bloco Drum and Dance Ensemble and Selah Geissler.
Jessmaya Morales - Delivering Her Keynote Address
Selah Geissler - Performing "Let Go" - Lyrics
Friday's Lunchnote Address
Byron Hurt
Byron Hurt is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, a published writer, and an anti-sexist activist. His most recent documentary, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It was later broadcast nationally on the Emmy award-winning PBS series Independent Lens, drawing an audience of more than 1.3 million viewers. To date, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes has been selected to appear in more than 40 film festivals worldwide.
Hurt also directed and produced I AM A MAN: Black Masculinity in America, a 60-minute award-winning documentary that captures the thoughts and feelings of African-American men and women from over fifteen cities across America. In this award-winning film, Hurt challenges audiences to interrogate the damaging effects of patriarchy, racism and sexism in American culture.
More than a filmmaker, Hurt is a former Northeastern University football quarterback and a long-time gender violence prevention educator. He is a founding member of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program, the leading college-based rape and domestic violence prevention initiative for college and professional athletics. He is also the former associate director of the first gender violence prevention program in the United States Marine Corps.
Handouts
Break the Box: The X Factor in Serving Your Community - A Discussion Forum
Kavin Black, Organizational Services Coordinator; Cindy Marroquin, Advocacy Services Coordinator; and Ellen Yin-Wycoff, Associate Director, CALCASA
- Slides [PDF]
Building Effective Boards of Directors
Lee Draper, Ph.D, Draper Consulting Group
- Slides [PDF]
California’s Rape Prevention and Education Program: Now and Then
Stacy Alamo Mixson, M.P.H, Manager, Mina Lai White, M.P.H., Epidemiologist, and, Jeannie Galarpe, Administrative Assistant, California Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program
- Slides [PDF]
Employment Law Training for Managers & Supervisors
Yesenia Gallegos, Esq., Silver & Freedman’s Employment and Labor Law Department
Behavioral Theory for Prevention
Marc Mannes, Ph.D., Search Institute
- Slides [PDF]
Prevention by Building Assets
Marc Mannes, Ph.D., Search Institute
- Slides [PDF]
Bringing in the Bystander: A Community Framework for Sexual Violence Prevention
Angela M. Borges, Program Facilitator, University of New Hampshire & Boston College
Immigration Benefits for Victims of Rape, Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking
Lynette Parker, KGACLC/Santa Clara Law School
- Slides [PDF]
TechSafety: Advocacy, Education and Prevention in the Digital Age
Kecia Bailey, Direction of Library and Information Services, Kavin Black, Organizational Service Coordinator, Chad Keoni Sniffen, Prevention Services Coordinator
- Slides [PDF]
Workplace Rights of Sexual Violence Survivors
Anya Lakner, Project Attorney, Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center & Sharon Terman, Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center
- Slides [PDF]
Would You Volunteer For You?
Cindy Marroquin, Advocacy Services Coordinator, CALCASA & Kavin Black, Organizational Services Coordinator, CALCASA
- Slides [PDF]
The SART Enhancement Project: Advancing California's SARTS to the Next Level
California Medical Training Center
- Slides [PDF]
Serving the LGBTQI Community
Leona Smith, Peace Over Violence and Amber Kennedy, Sexual Assault Recovery & Prevention Center
- Slides [PDF]
Moving on Race: Special Institute on Social Justice and Inclusion in the Movement to End Sexual Violence
Lita Mercado, Alena Donovan, Shanna Holzer, Allan Creighton, Tiombe Preston
