Overcoming Assault: Survivor to advocate

    4/12/2022                                        Show #53

 (Another Show Bringing Awareness To April's Child Abuse/Sexual Assault Awareness Month) 

Tonight's Guest Is Bethany England,

She has been an activist since she could write. She wrote and entered papers into writing contests at 7 years old on topics she believed in. She participated in my court and mock Congress at 8.  She also went on to compete and stoa speech and debate competitions and placed at state. Bethany is a recent graduate of Rollins College located in Winter Park Florida where she studied Communications with an emphasis on Leadership an organizational communication.

As a believer in being "well rounded and grounded." Bethany has a wide range of hobbies, work experience, volunteering as well as political activism. Having dedicated her time in working with troubled youth, helping at food pantries, or back at the beginning of covid when hospitals war running short on masks spent her time making 250 through a program that distributes them to local hospitals. In her free time she is obsessed with purses and enjoys writing poetry, wine, being with her friends, museums and collecting old books.

On September 20th 2018, she was featured on the front page of Rollins Colleges schools newspaper. In the article Bethany shared her personal experience being sexually assaulted less than seven months after the traumatizing event. Since then England has dedicated her time in uplifting and advocating for other victims of sexual abuse every opportunity she has.

https://www.thesandspur.org/overcoming-assault-survivor-to-advocate/

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