Amplifying Voices: Media, Advocacy, and Survivor Education (Session 8)

Amplifying Voices: Media, Advocacy, and Survivor Education (Session 8)

This session explores how media, education, and advocacy intersect to amplify survivor voices while confronting the systems that silence them. Adam Joel shares insights on teaching relationship safety before, during, and after an abusive relationship from a survivor’s perspective, offering practical educational approaches that can reach people at different stages of recognizing and responding to coercive control in their lives. His presentation emphasizes the importance of accessible, survivor-informed education that meets people where they are. Amy Burrell contributes research perspectives on documenting and researching coercive control, examining methodological approaches that center survivor experiences while maintaining academic rigor. Natalie Queiroz brings her powerful survivor perspective and advocacy work to the discussion. Facilitated by journalist Ena Miller, whose investigative work “Silenced Twice: Too Grim to Print” examines how journalism becomes the gatekeeper that silences coercive control by deeming certain stories too disturbing for publication, this session challenges attendees to think critically about whose voices are amplified and whose are silenced in public discourse about coercive control, while offering strategies for breaking through these barriers.