A CALL TO ACTION: Active Voice Campaign

THE CALL TO ACTION

Active Voice aims to create a more supportive climate for young women to use their voices to address substantive issues, and in doing so, to develop leadership skills translatable across all professional and civic fields.

Active Voice is a positive, pro-voice campaign, emphasizing examples in which young women have valiantly faced adversity. Here, young women are encouraged to share stories of fighting back against pressure or even just instances in which they faced it, and how they have grown since.

While reforming institutional censorship barriers is an objective of the program, Active Voice highlights all sources of resistance that deter women from full participation in public dialogue, including the online “trolls” who disproportionately harass speakers for doing nothing more than “blogging while female.”

A major aim of Active Voice is to build a sense of community that strengthens the resolve of young women confronting adversity so that they feel less outnumbered and overpowered.

For more information contact Student Press Law Center (SPLC) – http://www.splc.org/

The Student Press Law Center helps students gather information and share ideas by using their legal rights intelligently. The SPLC offers educational programming and public-policy advocacy addressing four interlocking issue areas: (1) freedom of expression, (2) open government, (3) civic participation and online civility.

The SPLC is a strong, well-established organization founded 40 years ago to provide free legal information and guidance to students and teachers nationwide, with the objective of promoting more engaged citizens through the vehicle of journalism