Please join us at BELIEVE 2021, a livestreamed event, at noon on Wednesday, April 28. As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this signature program fosters awareness while raising critical funds in HAWC’s mission to end domestic and sexual violence for all.
BELIEVE 2021 is free and open to the public. This year we are honored to feature the family of Vanessa Guillén and their attorney, Natalie Khawam. Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier, was murdered on April 22, 2020 inside a Fort Hood, Texas military base by another enlisted soldier. Before her disappearance, she told friends and family that a sergeant had been harassing her, and she did not file a complaint out of fear of not being believed. Guillén’s death, which happened during 2020’s re-energized civil rights movement, sparked national attention and launched unprecedented reform in how the U.S. military treats women, especially women of color.
BELIEVE 2021 is an opportunity to put an end to the stigma of sexual assault and to come together on something we can all agree on – Vanessa should be alive today and we need to make sure her death is not in vain.
Registration is free and easy – just click here. We hope you can join us.
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