SPEAKING TOPICS & FORMATS

Street Harassment | Career Path | Getting Published

Street Harassment:

Street harassment is an under-discussed topic that impacts most women's lives. Request Holly to speak at your local library or bookstore, to a community group or high school class, or on your college campus.

Three suggestions for the event format include: 1) a two-hour interactive workshop, 2) an hour lecture with Q&A, and 3) a panel that includes Holly, a local person who shares her street harassment stories, and a local activist who talks about local anti-street harassment efforts and how people can become involved (for example, individuals may be from a men's anti-violence group, local HollaBack, local rape crisis or self defense group).

Holly can edit her talk to meet the needs and interests of the audience. Topics she can cover include:

1. Defining street harassment
2. The prevalence and the global scope of street harassment
3. Why street harassment is not a compliment/why men who harass do so
4. What street harassment plus racism or homophobia looks like
5. How the line of acceptable stranger interactions can vary by person and how to navigate that complexity
6. The impact street harassment has on women's lives
7. Why street harassment is a human rights issue
8. Assertive ways to respond to harassers, be they your own or those you see as a bystander (this section can include role playing assertive responses to street harassers)
9. Ideas for mentoring young women and young men about these issues
10. The importance of male allies and how all men can help end street harassment
11. Creative ideas for activism, raising awareness, and creating change

For audiences already informed about street harassment, Holly can focus on brainstorming concrete action they can take in their community to address specific problems of street harassment.

Fee is negotiable.

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Career Path:

Holly is happy to talk with and offer advice to Women's Studies students or other groups of students, interns, and young professionals about her career path. She can cover the steps and choices that took her from a college graduate in 2005 to a nonprofit professional at a respected national women's organization, author, and national street harassment expert.

The format that works best is a group discussion, although she can do a lecture style format for a larger audience.

Fee is negotiable.

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Getting Published:

Holly can cover the steps involved in getting a non-fiction book published. After going through the Op-Ed Project training in early 2010, Holly has had several op-eds published and can also talk about the importance of writing op-eds and the process involved to have one published.

The format that works best is a group discussion, although she can do a lecture style format for a larger audience.

Fee is negotiable.

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