Dialogues Across Differences: A Community Conversation

Greenfield-ma.gov The City has engaged the services of two experienced facilitators to host a series of community conversations on race, gender, class, equity and other important topics. “Dialogues Across Differences: A Community Conversation” will be hosted by...

A Call for Help Answered

Reasons to be Cheerful, November 21, 2022 “The caller says he just got a text message from a woman he recently started dating, accusing him of sexual assault. “Describe to me what happened,” JAC Patrissi calmly requests on the other end of the line. As the...

JAC Patrissi’s Advice: Hang Out with Artists

WARE, Mass. — JAC Patrissi spoke briefly at the grand opening of Art Works, a new art gallery located at 69 Main St. in downtown Ware, Friday night, December 14, 2018. As president of the board of Ware-based cultural arts and learning center Workshop13, Patrissi...

Lessons From the Field of IPV

We saw the shooter coming. I want you to see it, too. For those of us who have worked in the field of sexual and domestic violence, we see the connections between mass shootings and domestic violence. We see why people who tolerate or dismiss abuse towards women or...