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Oct 9, 2026
Conversations Early and Often - SafeBAE Works to Prevent Sexual Violence in RI
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1:11Shael NorrisGUEST
I think that's always an interesting piece to the storytelling of it.
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1:14Shael NorrisGUEST
So I started working in theater, moved to New York, and met Eve Ensler, now V, um, who wrote The Vagina Monologues, and was a very young person at the founding of V-Day.
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1:26Shael NorrisGUEST
And, um, that really taught me the elements of storytelling and the elements of, um, combining art and activism.
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1:33Shael NorrisGUEST
And I oversaw all the benefit productions of The Vagina Monologues on college campuses for many years, and it just felt like this incredibly obvious and natural segue to start doing work in middle school and high school from there.
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1:45Shael NorrisGUEST
And that resulted in V-Day giving us the seed money to start SafeBay 10 years ago.
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1:50Philip ChanHOST
Wonderful.
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1:51Philip ChanHOST
Well, thank you for all you do, and we will jump into this topic a little bit more in a second.