Jess Clark
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Deep dive conversations on sexual violence prevention! Jess Clark, Director of Sexual Violence Prevention for the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs interviews experts in the field, authors, musicians, educators, podcasters, and organizers on what sexual violence prevention can look like in our daily lives. Jess can be reached at [email protected]
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Both/And connects sexual violence prevention to the policies, institutions, and communication choices that shape safety in everyday community life.
Jess Clark treats sexual violence prevention as a question of how communities build power, care, and accountability. Her one-on-one interviews connect the subject to public education, Title IX protections, paid family medical leave, and the language advocates use to communicate…
School board ballots have a place in your sexual violence prevention toolkit, apparently.
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Comprehensive sex ed is framed as a public, anti-authoritarian project with real stakes in local democracy.
Jacqueline Friedman and Jess Clark treat comprehensive sex education as a liberatory, anti-authoritarian practice, not just another school subject.
Leave policy, dignity, and violence prevention are tied together with clear purpose.
Paid family and medical leave comes through as more than a workplace perk. It reads as a basic safeguard, one that lets people care for themselves or a loved one, stay home with a newborn, sit with a dying family member, or recover from sexual or intimate partner violence…
Title IX policy, survivor autonomy, and the stubborn work of protecting students.
Title IX is the frame, but the episode really centers on what it takes to keep students protected when the systems meant to help them drift away from that duty.
A practical conversation about framing prevention language for collective action.
It centers on why sexual violence prevention needs framing people can actually hear. Jess Clark begins with the familiar frustration of trying to make moral, structural arguments land, and Julie Sweetland offers a clearer path: language shapes whether people feel invited into…
A clear argument for schools as a place where community care turns into action.
Public schools are framed as one of the few places where community care becomes visible in daily life, tied here to traffic, alcohol sales, food insecurity, mental health, flu vaccines, and books.
Jess Clark opens with a fire metaphor.
Jess Clark interviews Dr.
Jess Clark opens with a plain question: where do you start when you want to change a community?
Host Jess Clark interviews Jacqueline Friedman, executive director of Educate Us, about comprehensive sex education as a tool for preventing sexual violence and fostering bodily autonomy.
Host Jess Clark interviews Josephine Calipani about the intersection of economic policies like paid family medical leave and sexual violence prevention.
Sarah Viren, author of a March 2020 New York Times Magazine piece, describes how a rival candidate for a University of Michigan job invented female identities to accuse her wife Marta of sexual harassment.
A shift in one word, from evidence-informed to evidence-slash-culturally-informed, allows some historically unfunded organizations to come into this work.
Indi McCasey, an arts-education consultant, traces a path from Seattle drag and the Amigos Puppets program at SOLACE in Santa Fe to Destiny Arts Center in Oakland.