Elizabeth Smart speaks at ISU during week of ‘Surviving Voices’
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Channel: East Idaho News · 2018 · News & Politics
POCATELLO — Elizabeth Smart took the stage to tell her story Wednesday during an Idaho State University awareness campaign. The university’s College of Arts and Letters is hosting a week of events to raise awareness about sexual assault and domestic violence. The program is entitled “Surviving Voices” and runs from Dec. 5 to 8. Events included documentary screenings, dance performances and a keynote address by Elizabeth Smart. Smart spoke at the Joseph C. and Cheryl H. Jensen Grand Concert Hall in the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center. Hundreds attended the sold-out event to hear Smart’s keynote address. She shared her experience of surviving her own abduction in June of 2002 and being a victim of sexual assault. Smart was held captive and sexually abused for nine months before being found and rescued. (Read more at EastIdahoNews.com)
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