Tony Porter: A call to men
Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don’t ‘act like a man’. Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break free of the ‘man box’.
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ABOUT Tony Porter
“Tony Porter is the visionary and co-founder behind the Non Profit ‘A Call to Men: The National Association of Men and Women Committed to Ending Violence Against Women’. Tony’s message of engagement and self-examination has connected powerfully with numerous domestic and sexual violence programmes for such high-profile groups as the National Football League and the National Basketball Association, and colleges and universities around the country, including the US Military Academy at West Point and the US Naval Academy at Annapolis.
He is also an international lecturer for the U.S. State Department, having done extensive work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is a faculty member of the New York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services Academy of Addiction Studies, where he co-authored their curriculum for clinicians who work with chemically dependent African-Americans. He also specialises in developing social justice models for human service organisations.”
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