[Eoscstudents] SSS Participants... Speaker

[Kinya Meineke]

SSS Participants-

Make sure you take advantage of this awesome opportunity!  For those of you
apart of Student Support Services if you attend make sure you sign in so
that you can receive points towards Grant Aid.  There will be a sign in
sheet or find me at the event.  Hope to see you there!!

 

Kill the Silence

 

8/13/2015 - 3 p.m.

 

Mitchell Auditorium

 

As an 18-year old, with big dreams and high goals, Monika Korra moved from
her native Norway to Dallas, TX on a track scholarship with SMU. To
represent a college track team was a dream come true, and it took her a step
closer towards her goal of becoming a professional runner. She felt like
nothing could hold her back. 

 

Her college career started as she had hoped, with immediate success on and
off the track. Then, one night during the Christmas holidays her sophomore
year, she was kidnapped at gunpoint and gang raped by three men. Suddenly,
her life was turned upside down, and she and others wondered if she would
ever find her way back to a normal life; however, Monika was determined. In
the police car on the way to the hospital that night, she made the decision
to not let that event destroy or define her life - she would fight until she
felt whole again. She would survive.

 

After assisting with the convictions of her three assailants, Monika bravely
came forward to make her voice heard. In doing so, she turned tragedy into a
message of survival and hope for anyone who has suffered through trauma or
setbacks. She founded "The Monika Korra Foundation", whose mission is to
create awareness of the prevalence and effects of sexual assault and to
provide a place of healing for victims.

 

Kinya Meineke, M.A.g.

Counselor/Advisor

Student Support Services

Eastern Oklahoma State College

"Your Tomorrow Begins Today"

918.465.1822

 

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