Panel Discussion: Picturing Domestic Violence

Presented at The Print Center and on Zoom

Please join us for a panel discussion presented in conjunction with our current exhibition of new work by Carmen Winant, A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures. The speakers will discuss the visualization of domestic violence through photographs, specifically those used in service of empowerment and self-actualization.

Panelists:
Ruth M. Glenn, President & CEO, NCADV
Roberta Hacker, former Executive Director of WIT (1986-2006)
Dr. Ethan Levine, scholar and advocate

This hybrid event will be presented at The Print Center as well as on Zoom. In-person capacity is limited as a safety measure. All visitors are required to be vaccinated and wear face masks.

Content warning: please be advised that this program will contain adult content, including descriptions and depictions of domestic violence.

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Ruth M. Glenn is the CEO and President of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). She received a Masters’ in Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Colorado Denver’s Program on Domestic Violence.

Ms. Glenn has worked and volunteered in the domestic violence (DV) field for almost three decades, working with the Colorado Department of Human Services for 19 years and then serving as their Director of the Domestic Violence Program for an additional nine years. She has served on many DV program, funding and grant administration boards, given hundreds of presentations on DV victimization and survival, testified before the United States Congress and provided consultation and training on a national level for survivors’ issues. As a survivor herself, Ms. Glenn also frequently shares her experience to bring awareness to the dynamics of DV.

Roberta L. Hacker has been a life-long activist and leader, addressing the issues of equal rights for women and violence against women. Ms. Hacker began her advocacy career as a Community Liaison for Horizon House, working to deinstitutionalize patients being released from state psychiatric hospitals and facilitating their adjustment to independent community living. Since then, she has served as Executive Director of Voyage House, Philadelphia (now closed); Interim Director of Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth; Coordinator of Community Education for Women In Transition (WIT); and Executive Director of WIT.

In the 90s, Ms. Hacker established and coordinated a local workgroup on domestic violence (DV). Her leadership led to a collaboration with the Support Center for Child Advocates and in 1995, they jointly convened Philadelphia’s first citywide meeting between advocates against DV and those who focus on the linkages of DV and child abuse, including representatives from law enforcement, child welfare, elder abuse/health care and the District Attorney’s office.

In 2002, Ms. Hacker was awarded funding for Philadelphia’s first Domestic Violence Summit (2003), bringing various professionals together to ensure that battered women and their children receive optimum care from services such as the police department, district attorney’s office, health department, child welfare, shelter system, behavioral health and other DV programs. Ms. Hacker also initiated the creation of the Philadelphia Domestic Violence Hotline Collaboration, leading the county’s four domestic violence programs (WIT, Women Against Abuse, Lutheran Settlement House’s Bilingual Domestic Violence Project, and Congreso de Latinos Unidos Latina Domestic Violence Program) in providing 24-hour bilingual hotline.

Ethan Czuy Levine is a sociologist, anti-violence advocate and award-winning speaker on interpersonal violence and LGBTQ+ and other sexual and gender minority communities. His research focuses primarily on sexual and intimate partner violence.

Levine’s first book, Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Research about Sexual Violence (2021), explores the history and politics of scholarship in this subject. His articles have been published in journals such as Violence Against Women, Sexualities, and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Outside of academia, Levine has more than 10 years of experience advocating for survivors, including staffing crisis hotlines, medical/court/police department accompaniment and supporting survivors and their children in shelters. He also provides education and outreach such as developing/facilitating workshops for diverse community/professional audiences.