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Encore: Sexual Assault Awareness: We Hear a Survivor's Story

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We're listening back to a conversation we had last month to markSexual Assault Awareness Month. According to theNational Sexual Violence Resource Center, one in three women, and one in six men, have experience some form of sexual violence in their lifetime in America.We metWendy J. Silva, she's Sexual Assault Program Manager at thePunta Gorda-basedCenter for Abuse and Rape Emergencies Inc.(C.A.R.E.). We also metLesley Barton, who shared her experience as a sexual assault survivor and advocate.

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.