Video: UH Hilo releases PSA on domestic violence prevention
Released to coincide with national Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, the nearly two-minute video features UH Hilo students, faculty, staff and administrators speaking out about how everyone can do their part to prevent sexual assault.
By Susan Enright/UH Hilo Stories.
It’s On Us
The Student Health and Wellness Programs at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo has released a public service announcement video that raises awareness on the issue of domestic violence and promotes a safe learning and working environment. Released to coincide with national Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, the nearly two-minute video, It’s On Us, features students, faculty, staff and administrators speaking out about how everyone can do their part to prevent sexual assault.
The UH Hilo PSA is part of a national campaign launched in 2014 by the White House called It’s On Us, in which people are asked to sign a pledge to do their part to keep men and women safe from sexual assault (see video at right).
The speakers in the UH Hilo PSA video press home the point that everyone can have an important role to play in preventing sexual assault and domestic violence from taking place in the university community: To look out for one another and not look the other way, to be attentive to our peers, and to support those impacted by sexual violence, say speakers in the video.
“It’s on us to stop sexual assault at UH Hilo,” says Chancellor Don Straney in the video (0.41).
Speakers in the video (some speak more than once, some times are noted in the list to help reader locate section):
- Sean Nearhoof, student
- Rose Hart, student
- Ashley Terrel, alumni
- Walter Domingo, alumni
- Lizzie Pankey, cashier, Sodexo (0.07)
- Sulma Gandhi, director, Student Health and Wellness Programs (0.11)
- Jaysen Neidermeyer, alumni (0.14)
- Samantha Hanabaga, student
- Kolin Kettleson, director, Auxiliary Services (0.16)
- Erika Morihiro, alumni
- Darrell Mayfield, director, Campus Security (0.20)
- Matt Chen, student
- Jacqueline Yuw, student
- Emily Charman, student
- Ashley Fukuchi, student
- Shaye Kimura, alumni
- Deneen Ongais Louie, secretary, University Relations
- Jennifer Stotter, director, Office of Equal Employment and Affirmative Action (0.35)
- Carlo Tiano, student
- Donald Straney, chancellor (0.41)
- Zach Street, interim director, Office of Admissions; associate director, National Student Exchange (0.44)
- Andrew Polloi, mental health counselor; advisor to Men of Strength (0.47)
- Nichole Chaffin, student
- Cory Craig, student
- Kelly Oaks, interim associate vice chancellor for student affairs; dean of students (0.57)
- Bodhi Shartner, student
- Daniel Boggeln, alumni
UH Hilo is dedicated to raising awareness on the issues of sexual assault and domestic violence. Student peer health educators from the university’s Student Health and Wellness Programs worked collaboratively with UH Hilo’s own Vulcan Video Productions (formerly Lava Shoot) to create the PSA video during the spring semester of 2015.
More events
UH Hilo’s 8th Annual Walk in Her Shoes will be held on Oct. 7, 2015.
On Nov. 4, 2015, UH Hilo is partnering with the Joyful Heart Foundation to show the documentary film The Mask You Live In that follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity.
Story by Susan Enright, a public information specialist for the Office of the Chancellor and editor of UH Hilo Stories. She received her bachelor of arts in English and certificate in women’s studies from UH Hilo.
