Mike Domitrz spoke to 1,600 students at The College of New Jersey about bystander intervention and the "ask first" approach to preventing violence. BBC Documentary Films filmed the event to spread the message wider. The talk celebrated the partnership between the university, the Cantik Issue program, and BBC to support survivors and improve campus safety.
Alrighty, here we are. We are at the College of New Jersey. Super excited. Here's why we are super excited, because today's a little extra special. Not only are 1,600 students about to hear the Cantik Issue program, which is awesome— they just got to campus relatively recently and they're all going to get to hear the Cantik Issue program this Sunday because this school wants to get it to them right away to start their year— that's not the extra special news though, because we get to do that a lot this time of year, which we're always honored for. The extra special news today is we got a special guest here, Jose, and that is— Yes, we do. BBC Documentary Films. BBC is here doing some filming of today. We're so excited about this, about getting the message out and talking about what we need to be doing in college campuses, and thrilled that they have chosen to discuss how we're approaching it on college campuses and the schools wanting to approach it this way, the importance of it, the results they're seeing from it, and getting to hear from students what they think about the topic. All this is so awesome. So we're thrilled and honored to have the BBC joining us, BBC Documentary Films here. Thank you. And we are thrilled to be doing the Catapult Show, of course, for the College of New Jersey, sharing about asking first, about intervening first before it ever happens, and how to support survivors. All that is so, so important, and we're just pumped. Let's get this going. It's Sunday, and we're ready to roll. Thank you.
