Elizabeth Smart announced Tuesday that her Elizabeth Smart Foundation is merging with the Malouf Foundation, a Utah-based nonprofit dedicated to confronting child sexual exploitation and specifically, sex trafficking and online abuse.
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Elizabeth Smart launches self-defense training course in SLC
Her foundation’s new Smart Defense Training Program was developed after she was sexually assaulted on a flight last year.
(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Elizabeth Smart, photographed in 2018, has launched a self-defense program through her foundation. | Updated: 9:04 p.m.
Elizabeth Smart was sexually assaulted on a Delta flight in February 2020. The Washington Post reported that “a man seated next to her put his hand between her legs. She says she woke to him rubbing her inner thigh, and froze.”
The Elizabeth Smart Foundation’s new Smart Defense Training Program was unveiled Saturday, as reported by FOX 13.