Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

present

Women’s Human Rights Speaker Series

The Problematic Features of Western Institutions

presented by

Ellen Pence

Thursday, October 2^nd, 2003, at 12:00 P.M.

at Briggs and Morgan, PA, 2200 IDS Center, in Minneapolis

(complimentary lunch will be served)

Ellen Pence has been an activist in the battered women’s movement since 1975.  She worked for four years helping to develop a network of shelters in Minnesota.  In 1980 she and a small group of activists organized the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, Minnesota.  The City of Duluth was the first to coordinate the intervention of all its criminal justice agencies under policies and protocols centralizing the protection of battered women.  She co-wrote with her colleague Michael Paymar Tactics of Control – An Educational Curriculum for Men Who Batter.  Today it is the most widely used batterers’ rehabilitation model in the country.  She helped organize the Duluth Visitation Center in 1988.  From 1990-95 she worked with a team of national domestic violence experts to redesign the US Marine Corps response to family violence.  During that time, she received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and she designed the Safety and Accountability Audit Process used extensively by community teams seeking to enhance their institutional responses to domestic violence.  Ellen has published widely in this area, developed a number of professional training curricula, produced training films, and lectured extensively both here and abroad.  She is currently the Director of Praxis International, which provides training and technical assistance on analyzing and changing institutional responses to battering.

This is one in a series of lunchtime speakers dedicated to improving awareness of women’s human rights issues.  Please join us the first Thursday of each month for a new presentation.  For more information, contact Mary Hunt at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.

Please RSVP to Mary Hunt at Minnesota Advocates for

 Human Rights by noon on Tuesday, September 30^th.

Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 107  Email: mhunt@mnadvocates.org