that the systems that are in place respond differently to them. that is they do not get the fair shake when they pursue their claims. what it comes down to is in order to eliminate gender violence for women of color, black women, native women, really every demographic group of color and got to deal with racism. you can t simply deal with the sexism that s obvious in gender base violence. you have to deal with racism as well because racism is compoundsing the abuse and the violence and the risk. one of the horrific parts of this but the one that s important for people to understand is how that plays forward to any new situation. there s a bit of a retroguard, rear guard attack on these kind of reforms by saying what was a
beat. thank you. there s so much of the history here. i want to begin with some of your work right now that is paying it forward. this hollywood commission that tries to deal with structural, gender inequity and discrimination and looks at issues regarding civil right, people of color, the killing of black people in america and how that all fits together. before we go back, why not go forward. tell us about your work there, what people should know. the work at the hollywood commission is centered on ending harassment. it s also centered on greater diversity and inclusion because we know from all of the research, not only our own research but the research it s done nation wide that the best way to have a harassment free work environment is to have more diverse decision makers and
wouldn t have to go through that. this is how black people get killed. the words of a doctor fighting for her life. she did die. we uncoffered some of that. i wanted to, every one up front and be aware of the lack of believability but the idea that we women and women of color particular aren t truthful about the experiences. we are di missed. we have this dismissive response to women who complain about sexual assault ar intimate partner violence or sexual
effective response to stop these individuals. it took years and decades and multiple victims in order to get any kind of relief. the systems are clearly failing all of us. it s so important. you re speaking about the laws broken math. that in a certain case, where a white person observes a killing, there are murder witness, one eyewitness, a lot of cases that will get it done. if the law because of its is dealing with, as you mentioned women alleging sexual assault. more women are victims or women of color, as you say being under counted and the math becomes
policy makers. we necessarily put the two together in terms of our mission and goal. yes. in the book and in this work, there s also a real issue of the evidence. you have to look at, lawyers do, what do we know about the underlying evidence which also can help rebut other types of discrimination of assumption, just sort of having personality base narratives. one piece of evidence that you ve worked on is the fact that black women, in particular, face a higher rate of this kind of abuse. 35% of black women facing sexual violence at some point in their lives. where does reform fit into that statistic? we realize is that women of color, generally, experience more violence. they experience more harassment in the workplace, typically. in fact, what they find also is