The free public event "Be One for Change: A Conversation with Sharon Love and the One Love Foundation" will take place in room 303 of the International Center Monday from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Volunteer and Advocacy Coordinator for MSU Safe Place Alyssa Baumann said various organizations and schools on campus wanted to enhance efforts to spread awareness of relationship violence as well as spread knowledge of resources available to help.
“We decided it would be a great partnership," Baumann said. "It is an issue that does need to be addressed."
The conversation will be in the format of a panel that features Sharon Love, one of the founders of the organization, Baumann said. Other panelists include CEO of the One Love Foundation Katie Hood, Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Coca-Cola North America Group Carolyn Jackson, MSU Safe Place Advocacy Coordinator Erica Schmittdiel and Detective Lieutenant Valerie O'Brien of the MSU Police.
In addition to the panelists' remarks about the work each is doing on the subject, there will be a public service announcement video, a discussion on how the foundation is using technology to help spread awareness and a question and answer session to follow.
The One Love Foundation was started in honor of Yeardley Reynolds Love, a college student and athlete whose ex-boyfriend took her life in the result of relationship violence just two weeks before her graduation, according to the foundation's website.
Also according to the foundation's website, it is the foundation's mission to “end relationship violence through education and technology" and its vision to "educate people to recognize the warning signs of relationship violence and motivate them to step up and take action.”
Baumann said the purpose of this panel is to bring people together to start and continue these kinds of discussions about relationship violence.
The One Love Foundation continues to be a leader in the creation of compelling and creative content to motivate young people to stand against relationship violence, the foundation's website said. It does so by distributing PSA’s, mobile phone apps, films, viral campaigns, and scheduling in-person talks with students and universities, like MSU.
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