Thursday, October 27, 2022
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Rutgers University
The Red Lion, College Avenue Student Center
PROGRAM (view a copy of the program)
Voices – an art installation created by Cat del Buono
Opening Remarks
Artistic display about victims Jana Lynne Mackey and Simeonette (Sissy) Mapes
Theatrical Response to Intimate Partner Violence
- Presentation of All Databases are Incomplete, a play by Cynthia L. Cooper, introduced by the playwright
- Video of the play performed by professional actor Lisa Pelikan
The Voices of Activists Who Know – Panel Discussion
- Joan Dean, Moderator
- John Mapes, father of Simeonette Mapes and co-founder of Sissy’s Angels
- Gloria A Bachmann, MD, Co-Director, Women’s Health Institute, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Lily Sanders, author of Truth to Triumph
- Juana Hutchinson-Colas, MD, Co-Director, Women’s Health Institute, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Aryn Quinn, founder of WeCare
- Audience questions
Concluding remarks – Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel
Reception hosted by Women’s Political Caucus of New Jersey
Acknowledgements
Remember the Women Institute thanks our symposium partners, the Women’s Political Caucus of New Jersey and the Rutgers Student Chapter of WPCNJ, as well as all of those who participated in this symposium. We also thank the donors to our intimate partner violence project: The Edward and Holli Gersh Foundation, The Embassy of Israel to the United States, The Five Millers Family Foundation, Ariela Heilman, Patti Askwith Kenner, and Marilyn Thypin.