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"Men, Women & Violence: Everyone Matters" An SUU Conference Preview on Monday's Access Utah

According to www.domesticviolencestatistics.org every 9 seconds in the U. S. a woman is assaulted or beaten; domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined; and nearly 1 in 5 teenage girls who have been in a relationship said a boyfriend threatened violence or self-harm if presented with a breakup. 

Domestic Violence is the subject of a conference this week at Southern Utah University titled: “Men, Women, & Violence: Everyone Matters.”  Today we’ll talk with two of the keynote speakers: Michele Weldon, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and author of a critically-acclaimed memoir, “I Closed My Eyes—Revelations of a Battered Woman;” and Catherine Richardson, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria.  We’ll also talk with Allan Wade, Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria.

Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.