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Graduate Speaker's Bureau
Our Speakers Bureau exists to educate and empower women and families to lead healthy & safe lives.
Our Graduate Speakers are women who have overcome adversities including domestic violence, addiction & homelessness who share their experiences and stories with audiences to:
- create awareness about domestic abuse and warning signs
- learn how to get help
- understand that it is possible to make new choices and change your life
Our Graduate Speakers are available:
- As spokeswomen to the media
- For local organizations, clubs, and corporate functions
- For programs for women in shelters
- For high school girls for the prevention of domestic violence
Our Inspiring Graduates
Speakers Update
The graduates have told their stories and taught classes to more than 3,000 people in the community since May 2008 in an effort to lead and inspire women to live their best lives and educate the community about domestic violence and violence against women.
The Women’s Leadership Institute Graduate Speaker’s Bureau has spoken for the following audiences:
- California Western School of Law
- California State University San Marcos
- Naval Consolidated Brig Miramar
- 8th Annual International Family Justice Center Conference
- Vagina Monologues/Lyceum Theater 2009
- Vagina Monologues/ Birch Theatre 2011
- For You Network Monthly Membership Meeting
- Women Changing the World
- Safe Start Conference, San Diego
- St. Vincent de Paul Workforce Housing Program-Women’s Empowerment Group
- YWCA San Diego Centennial Gala
- YWCA San Diego Board of Directors
- YWCA San Diego Passages Program Residents
- YWCA San Diego Cortez Hill Family Center Residents
On TV, Radio and More
The members of the Graduate Speaker’s Bureau have been featured more than a dozen times in local TV news stories and radio interviews, and also chair and co-chair the San Diego Family Justice Center VOICES Committee and head their City Council Sub-Committee, and serve on the California Family Justice Initiative Advisory Committee.
Please contact Dana Bristol-Smith dana@speakforsuccess.com to learn more about having our graduates come speak to your school or organization.