Meg Stone, Violence Prevention Expert & Author
Author Meg Stone
Meg Stone helps you question authority, challenge fear-based safety advice, and embrace a more just and realistic approach to stopping violence.
She exposes how sexist safety advice keeps us small - and offers a bold, evidence-based path to true personal and collective safety. Meg is the Executive Director of IMPACT Boston, an organization that works to prevent violence and abuse by giving people the skills to advocate for healthy relationships, sexual respect, and personal and community safety.
She is the author of two books, The Cost of Fear and "Don't Fight Back."
Speaking, Training & Workshops
Meg Stone is an experienced and engaging speaker for keynotes, conferences, universities, high schools, workplaces, faith communities, and nonprofit organizations. She brings warmth, clarity, humor and solid evidence to each engagement and will work with you to customize her message for your group.
SAMPLE TOPICS
- · How Personal Safety Tips Can Make Women Feel More Afraid
- · You Don’t Have to Live in Fear—A bold, evidence-based path to true personal and collective safety.
- · 5 Things Every Parent Should Know About Kids’ Safety
- · What the Catholic Church, Olympic Sports, and Other Institutions with Sexual Abuse Crises Have in Common
- · Why Being Bold and Assertive Makes Women Safer
- · What So Many Men Get Wrong About Women's Safety.
Empowerment Hour with Meg Stone
- Photo: Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambride, MA
Generate Involvement
In The Cost of Fear, nationally recognized violence prevention expert Meg Stone helps readers separate fact from fiction. It’s full of practical, research-based strategies that women and others who are targeted for gender-based violence can use to keep themselves and their communities safer. Increased safety comes not from complying with rigid rules or avoiding of white vans, but from developing the skills to resist coercive control, especially from people we know or people in authority.
For more on IMPACT Boston, check out their website or social media pages below: www.Facebook.com/IMPACTBoston www.Instagram.com/impact_boston/ www.Twitter.com/IMPACT_Boston