Bob Pleasants
Template:TOCnestleft Bob Pleasants is the Interpersonal Violence Prevention coordinator at UNC-Chapel Hill and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Health Behavior in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-CH. He has been involved in violence prevention in North Carolina since 2001 and began doing the work professionally in 2004 talking to high school school students about abusive relationships. He currently oversees UNC-Chapel Hill's violence prevention efforts and teaches "Leadership in Violence Prevention" a service-learning course in the Women's and Gender Studies department. He chairs the university's Sexual Assault Relationship Violence Training and Education taskforce and works with survivors of sexual assault and relationship violence. He has also facilitated anti-sexist men's groups in Durham and currently serves on the North Carolina Sexual Violence Prevention Team.
Men Against Rape Culture
Bryan Proffitt is a Hip-Hop-generation white man who belongs to Men Against Rape Culture, a Durham, NC-based organization committed to building the struggle to end sexual violence and Ubuntu, a women of color- and survivor-led coalition committed to ending sexual violence.
An essay he wrote on the subject for the Freedom Road Socialist Organization website was shaped and reworked and made infinitely better by the thoughtful support and critical editing of Nancy Wilson, Tema Okun, Aiden Graham, Sam Hummel, Serena Sebring, Bob Pleasants, Michelle Lanier, Kriti Sharma, Precious-Jewel Zabriskie and Manju Rajendran[1].