For the People Who Do This Work Every Day
Your attendees know the statistics better than any speaker does. What they don't often get is ninety minutes with someone who lived the case file — and who can tell them which interventions actually reached her and which ones didn't.
A Keynote for a Room That's Heard It All
Advocate and clinician audiences are the hardest room for this topic. They are not there to be sensitized. Many of them are exhausted, and several of them are survivors themselves.
What works with this audience is specificity and candor: the moments Christy was in front of someone who could have helped and the reason she said nothing; the interventions that felt like judgment; the one that finally worked. She is direct about what the system got wrong in her case, and she is equally direct about the advocates who kept showing up.
For conferences that open on a hard note, she is also a genuine morale keynote. She is alive, she is funny, and she is proof the work is not futile.
Who She Speaks To
DV Coalitions & Alliances
State and regional domestic violence coalition annual conferences and training symposiums.
Victim Advocates & Services
Keynotes for victim advocates, shelter staff, and community crisis intervention teams.
Healthcare & Grand Rounds
Hospital systems, nurse training, ED & trauma teams, and medical screening protocol education.
Law Enforcement & Prosecutors
Police academies, detective training, district attorney associations, and first responders.
Judicial & Court Education
Judicial conferences, family court judges, and legal aid advocacy summits.
Military Family Advocacy
Military Family Advocacy Programs (FAP) and veteran family support networks.
For Clinical Audiences Specifically
Christy was seen by medical professionals during the years she was being abused, and left without anyone asking the right question. She survived being shot and stabbed and was flown to an Orlando trauma center. That gives clinical audiences something a curriculum can't: what the patient in front of you is thinking while she explains the injury away, and what question would have changed it. Useful for screening protocol training, ED staff, primary care and nursing education.