A Speaker Students Actually Put Their Phones Down For
She was a world champion boxer. She was also in an abusive relationship for twenty years. Students come for the fighter and stay for the part they needed to hear.
The Honest Problem with Campus Prevention Programming
Students have been through the mandatory training. They can recite the definitions. It has not changed what happens on a Friday night, because information was never the thing that was missing.
Christy doesn't run a training seminar. She tells a student audience what it was actually like — being the strongest person in every room and still not being able to leave — and lets them draw the line to their roommate, their teammate, their own relationship. Prevention research is fairly clear that narrative and peer credibility change behavior where curriculum doesn't. This is that, delivered by someone who was on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Programming Fits
Title IX & Awareness Keynotes
Campus-wide keynotes for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April) & DVAM (October).
Teen Dating Violence Month (Feb)
TDVAM programming focusing on early relationship red flags, control, and digital boundaries.
Greek Life Required Programming
Fraternity and sorority mandatory education assemblies on intervention and mutual respect.
Athletics Department Assemblies
Specialized talks for NCAA, NAIA & high school student-athletes and coaching staff.
Orientation & Residence Life
First-year welcome week keynotes and RA training on supporting students in distress.
K-12 Assemblies & Anti-Bullying
Age-appropriate middle and high school presentations on resilience and target-status strength.
What Students Say Afterwards
“I thought this was going to be another assembly where someone read slides at us. Christy stood up there and told the real story. Nobody looked at their phones.”
— Student Government Officer, Big Ten University
For Younger Audiences
The anti-bullying and resilience talk is adapted for middle and high school: growing up in Mullens, West Virginia, hiding who she was, and finding out that the thing that made her a target was also the thing that made her formidable. Age-appropriate, with the adult content of her story handled carefully.