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UT Tyler GATE Program Hosts Abuse Advocate Brooke Axtell

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October 12, 2015

Media Contact:  Hannah Buchanan
Editor/Writer–Strategic Communications & Media Relations
Marketing and Communications
The University of Texas at Tyler
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October 9, 2015

Media Contact: Beverley Golden
Executive Director
Marketing and Communications
The University of Texas at Tyler
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Brooke Axtell will perform an inspirational presentation addressing sexual assault, human trafficking and domestic violence as a part of The University of Texas at Tyler Global Awareness Through Education program, Dr. Paul Streufert, executive director of special academic programs, announced.

Axtell will perform 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13 in the University Center Theater.

Following the performance, East Texas Crisis Center, Refuge of Light and For the Silent, will provide information about local anti-trafficking movements in East Texas.

Axtell is director of communications and engagement for Allies Against Slavery, a non-profit devoted to ending human trafficking, and she founded Survivor Healing and Empowerment, a healing community for survivors of rape, abuse and sex-trafficking.

As an advocate, Axtell uses her own particular forms of creative expression to support survivors through their recovery.

She serves on the board of The Refuge, which is the first long-term therapeutic care program for survivors of child sex-trafficking in Austin. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, LA Times, Time Magazine and Wall Street Journal.

One of the 14 campuses of the UT System, UT Tyler offers excellence in teaching, research, artistic performance and community service. More than 80 undergraduate and graduate degrees are available at UT Tyler, which has an enrollment of more than 8,500 high-ability students at its campuses in Tyler, Longview and Palestine as well as a location in Houston.