ALPHA CHI OMEGA presents

R U N WAY WA R R I O R S :
reflect
October 26, 2019
8-10 PM
Welcome
We want to thank all of you for coming out tonight to show support and help us
raise awareness for domestic violence. Runway Warriors started as a means of
empowerment, and we hope that our current vision and work continues to support
those in the journey of overcoming domestic violence.

The theme Reflect is meant to invite participants to reflect on their own experiences
as well as come into contact with realities that do not necessarily align with your
own. We invite participants to watch and listen to our speakers, performers and
models and reflect on how the stories they tell relate to or differ from your story.

A mirror can reflect a face, but in the process something is lost. What was once
three-dimensional becomes limited to just two dimensions. During this show you
will catch a glimpse of another person’s life told through dance, song, art, and the
spoken word. Keep in mind that those expressions are deeply personal reflections of
the artists. Like a mirror, we are limited to what we see on stage tonight to
understand the artist and their performance may not reflect their story in its
entirety. That being said, I invite you all to use tonight’s show as an opportunity to
reflect on their own experiences as well as come into contact with realities that do
not necessarily align with your own.

Putting on a show like Runway is a difficult task, but as members of a sorority that is
both dedicated to its philanthropy and to empowering women, we believe that it was
incredibly important to put together an accessible and inclusive event that sheds
light on such a pervasive issue.

Thank you to all the sisters, models, friends, and of course, our wonderful sponsors,
who made it all possible. We couldn’t have done it without your help.

And again, thank you for attending!

— The Philanthropy Committee

Please be aware that Runway Warriors includes discussions of gender-based

violence and assault that some viewers may find upsetting. For on-campus resources
relative to domestic violence, contact SVR at 212-854-HELP (4357)
The Philanthropy Committee
Diviya Rajesh
Vice President

Mirabella Chau
Assistant Vice President

Taya Voronko
Artistic Director

Allegra Girardello
Assistant Artistic Director

Emilia Flack
Logistics Director

Emma Cunningham
Assistant Logistics Director

Clare Bradley
Technical Director

Sunita Hu
Communications Director

Rachel Barkin
Member at Large

Gabrielle Obregon
Member at Large

Devon Park
Member at Large
 Anika Tsapatsaris
Annie Lewandowski
Annie Kim
Caroline Chen
! Carrie Johnson
Catalina Lopez
Claudette Wilson
Daniela Riedlova
Ella Charles
Emily Kohn
Emily Sun
Emily Wang
Emma Beaumont-Smith
Fina Bertolotti
Fiona Curnyn
Grace Manes
Jane Kaiser
Julia Parkerson
Julien Leitner
Katie Gallagher
Lalitha Madduri
Leila Tejani
Madeline Knutson
Mallory Evans
Maxine Ortega
Michelle Chen
Natalia Vasilyk
Raphael Junior
Skylar Green
Sofia Guzowski
Sophie Dolan
Tamarah Wallace
Models & Xiaoyu (Julia) Liao

Performers
Caroline Sky - singer
Naina Durga - poet
Madi O’Halloran - dancer
 This year, all proceeds of the event go to:
J O Y F U L H E A R T F O U N DAT I O N
WOMANKIND

S A N C T U A R Y F O R FA M I L I E S

Alpha Chi Omega’s goal is to help educate the campus community

on the issue of domestic violence, aid in the fight to end it, and
raise funds for nonprofit organizations in the city.

Nationwide, Alpha Chi Omega's philanthropy is Domestic Violence

Awareness and Support (DVAS). AX!’s work to end domestic violence
aims to help end unhealthy relationships and build healthy ones instead.
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Benefactors
Joyful Heart began as a dream to help
survivors heal in mind, body, and
spirit. It has grown into a national
organization determined to transform
the way society thinks about and responds to sexual assault, domestic
violence, and child abuse—while always keeping joy and survivors’ healing at
the core of its work.

Joyful Heart is paving the way for innovative approaches to treating trauma;
igniting shifts in the way the public views and responds to sexual assault,
domestic violence, and child abuse; and reforming and advancing policies and
legislation to ensure access to justice for survivors.

The vision of the Joyful Heart Foundation is a world free of sexual assault,
domestic violence, and child abuse.

Our mission is to transform society’s response to sexual assault, domestic

violence, and child abuse, support survivors’ healing, and end this violence
forever.

We deliver our mission through a program portfolio that includes three

integrated areas: Healing, Education, and Advocacy.

While we understand that our vision may not be achievable in our lifetimes,
we firmly believe that violence and abuse are preventable.

In support of our vision and mission, we have developed and adopted a set of
values and guiding principles that inform and inspire our approach to all that
we do.
The New York Asian Women's Center has transformed.
In January 2017, we changed our name. And, we are strengthening our focus on
advocacy and policy work, alongside our direct service provision.

Though our plans to expand our advocacy efforts were initiated before the
presidential election, advocacy takes on greater urgency and carries more
profound, life-changing implications. The survivors we serve, along with their
communities, are frightened because of immigration concerns, hate crimes, the
potential of widening gaps in the social welfare safety net, loss of health
insurance, and the decline of affordable housing, among other concerns.

Survivors of violence may be re-traumatized by these heart-stopping fears and

may be especially vulnerable. But their safety and security remains paramount
to our work.

Now is the time to donate generously. To those who have given, thank you. To
those who have yet to give, support survivors of violence by helping us facilitate
and strengthen their unified voice. Assist us in providing legal immigration,
employment and housing services. And, join us in assisting their children - who
may be in even more danger.

So even though we have changed our name, our mission, our heart remains the
same.

18+ 1.
2.
HEADQUARTERS
EMERGENCY
87%
ASIAN RESIDENCES OF FUNDS RAISED
GO DIRECTLY TO
LANGUAGES AND 3. COMMUNITY
PROGRAMS
DIALECTS OFFICES
 Sanctuary for Families is New York’s leading service provider and advocate for
survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking and related forms of gender violence.
Every year, we empower thousands of adults and children to move from fear and
abuse to safety and stability, transforming lives through a range of comprehensive
services and advocacy.

Our first office housed five employees at a church parish house in midtown
Manhattan. By 1985, we were providing shelter to 35 women and children each night,
and operating a daycare program.

Guided by the needs of the survivors we serve, in the years that followed we
launched the Legal Center, programming for children, and the Sarah Burke House
Transitional Shelter. We also expanded our mission to meet the needs of survivors of
sex trafficking, female genital mutilation, and related forms of gender violence.

Today, Sanctuary for Families employs nearly 200 lawyers, clinicians and support
staff, and operates out of 20 locations throughout New York City. Together, we make a
difference for over 15,000 adults and children every year, and tirelessly advocate for
an end to gender violence.

“IN LIFE, ALL OF US WILL NEED A

HELPING HAND. WHEN I WAS AT MY
LOWEST POINT, FEELING PRETTY
MUCH DEFEATED, I FOUND
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES.”

-Abigail
SANCTUARY FOR
FAMILIES CLIENT
 SPEAKER
TANYA
GUPTA
CO-FOUNDER of HERE THERE
AND EVERYWHERE
Tanya Gupta is co-founder and Executive
Director of here there and EVERYwhere (htE).!She
is a thoughtful artist combining her interests in visual and tactile
mediums with her love for teaching and social change.!Outside of htE,
Tanya is Co-Founder of!the Enlivened Collective,!working!as a freelance
designer and Creative Director.!She graduated from New York University
Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in
Individualized Study with a concentration in Design, Psychoanalysis and
Human Rights (Titled!"His and Her Story: Redesigning the Self"). Tanya is
currently pursuing her Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with a
concentration in Spirituality, Mind and Body at Teachers College,
Columbia University.!

here there and EVERYwhere (htE) is a nonprofit, repurposed goods

platform that provides survivors of economic hardships, domestic abuse,
sexual assault, and human trafficking with an avenue for creative
expression. While incorporating healing arts and ethical design concepts,
survivors are taught vocational and entrepreneurial skills in sewing,
jewelry making, and crafts to bring new life to discarded items.

Its mission is to empower survivors of economic

hardships, domestic abuse, sexual assault,
and human trafficking through creative
expression, entrepreneurialism, and
community engagement. Through
their programs, survivors are
encouraged to spread their wings
here, there, and EVERYwhere.
 SPEAKER
LESHAN !

GAULMAN
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
of BARRIER FREE LIVING

LeShan A. Gaulman is the current Chief Operating Officer of Barrier Free

Living Inc. He began his career at Barrier Free Living in 2009 working for a
partner organization as a Social Work-Care Manager for Barrier Free
Living’s Transitional Housing program. In 2013, he was offered the position
of Program Director of the Transitional Housing program, where he
remained until April 2018 when he was appointed to position as Chief
Operating Officer.

In addition to the work that he does at Barrier Free Living, LeShan provides
home-base counseling services to senior citizens and physically disabled
members of the New York City and lower Westchester County. He is also a
lecturer at CUNY Lehman College in the Social Work Department, where
he teaches students about the history of the profession of Social
Work.!LeShan holds a B.A. and a Master’s degree in Social Work from
CUNY Lehman College.

Barrier Free Living (BFL) began its ground-breaking work with people with
disabilities in 1978 as a Federally-funded Research and Demonstration Project
first known as “Project Outward Bound.” Since then, BFL has gone on to work
with thousands of people with disabilities, has launched several successful
award-winning programs and has become a leader in working with survivors of
domestic violence with disabilities.!

BFL strives for a world free from abuse and bias, where people with disabilities
live in a supportive environment. In this world, society values all its members
and individuals with disabilities are free of any barriers preventing them from
reaching their fullest potential.
 SPEAKER
ILSE KNECHT
DIRECTOR OF POLICY &
ADVOCACY from THE JOYFUL
HEART FOUNDATION

Ilse Knecht has dedicated the past 16 years of her

career to ending violence and creating better
communities. She comes to the Joyful Heart Foundation from the National
Center for Victims of Crime, where she created the DNA Resource Center and
led the center’s efforts to reform policies and practices related to testing rape
kits. She has served on several advisory committees for projects related to sexual
assault, forensic exams, and sexual assault response teams, and has spoken
extensively in the media about these issues. Her interest in social justice issues
goes back to high school, and after college, she worked to safeguard a woman’s
right to choose, was the volunteer coordinator for a Green Party candidate for
city council and mayor, and was a leader with the Student Environmental Action
Coalition. She credits her mother with instilling a duty to “do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.”

SPEAKER
DIANNE SMITH
ARTIST

Dianne Smith is a Harlem-based artist whose

abstracts and installations can be seen throughout the
country and abroad. Dianne is a Bronx native of Belizean
descent. She attended LaGuardia High School of Music and Art, the Otis
Parsons School of Design, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She
received her MFA from Transart Institute, Berlin, Germany in August 2012. She
has exhibited with noted artists including Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis,
Chakaia Booker, and Howardena Pindell. She also presented esteemed Poet and
Author, Dr. Maya Angelou, and Broadway Dance Choreographer George Faison
each with one of her most celebrated pieces: Spirit of My Ancestors "I" and
"II." Dianne has also used her art to comment on gender-based violence in our
communities.
D
CEO and Founder Jessica Herrin launched our
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with a simple mission: to help women be their
own boss, on their own terms. Chief Creative

S Officer Blythe Harris joined in 2007 and we

renamed the company Stella & Dot, after our
grandmothers. Since then, we’ve grown by

I leaps and bounds, creating thousands of

flexible jobs, attracting major media attention,
and expanding globally. Now a family of brands

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EVER—Stella & Dot is bigger and bolder than
ever.
N Our Goal is to give every woman the means
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selling our unique jewelry and accessories
online and in person. Backed by cutting-
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S
supportive women, it’s a business that’s
forward-thinking, flexible, and, most
importantly, a lot of fun.

Established in southern California in

2016, XOmandysue is an online clothing
boutique for young women who love
beachy feels and effortless style. We are
Robby and Lindsay, husband and wife
and owners of XOmandysue. Inspired by
today's top trends in beach towns and
beyond, our store is designed for the
every day girl and operated directly from
Newport Beach, CA.
 Founded by two
teenage sisters, GLO
embodies the
successes of minorities
in our world today.
Our designs actively
confront issues in
society that work to oppress voices. Fashion is a medium that everybody
understands at some level, and we here at GLO feel it can be the most
effective medium in bringing about change. We actively seek out
representatives of our brand who we feel voice the same ideologies
through their bodies of work be it through blogging, fashion, makeup
or discussions of identity in our modern world.

“My ! vision is for women who wear Ramy Brook to feel

beautiful and confident, knowing they are sexy, wearing
something special, and looking their absolute best.”

Founded in 2010 and based in

New York City, Ramy Brook is a
contemporary womenswear
brand designed for a woman by
a woman. Through Ramy’s
signature use of silk fabrics,
lively colors, and sophisticated
silhouettes, the collection is
meant to be a day-to-night
solution in a woman’s wardrobe.
Ramy's designs are inspired by
the beautiful, strong women she
has admired through her life
who demand a timeless, elegant
and versatile wardrobe. Her
clothing evokes an uplifting,
happy, and playful attitude, all while highlighting the sexiness and
confidence of the woman who wears it.
JADE THOMPSON, CHRIS
BANKS, ALEXIS IFILL, &
NATASHA MWASHIGHADI
STUDENT DESIGNERS

Jade Thompson is a 19-year-old designer from

Westchester, New York. She began designing at the age
of 16, after weeks of browsing local boutiques to find
the “perfect prom dress” to no avail. Although she had
no prior experience sewing, Jade proudly declared that
she would design a dress herself.!After a trip to the
Garment District, Jade hand-sewed a mermaid prom
dress that garnered over 3,000 likes on social media.

Since then, Jade has created a beachwear collection

featured in Afropolitan Fashion Show, stitched
individual pieces for both genders from elegant evening wear to casual sportswear,
designed maternity apparel that blends comfort with class and collaborated with a
Columbia alumna to start a professional fashion brand for working women.

Chris Banks is a 27-year old published fashion

stylist from Long Island, New York. He has
produced over 10 fashion shows, two of which at
Columbia University. Chris lives by his motto to
empower and inspire people through his gift of
styling.

Ifill Originals is a sustainable Boston-based brand created

by Alexis Ifill. Ifill Originals honors sustainability by
using dead stock fabric, scraps, and second-hand clothing
to make clothes. We believe clothing to not only be the
hallmark of a person’s individuality, but also as an
investment in our well-being. We’re dedicated to
transforming the accessibility of sustainable fashion.
Through this, we can transform the ways we buy, wear,
and treat clothing.
 THANK YOU TO OUR

GENEROUS
SPONSORS
BeGlammed Levain Bakery
Behno Mel’s
COOLA Suncare Moroccan Oil
Diane Von Furstenberg Organic Skincare
For[u] Rent the Runway
Hanky Panky Stella and Dot
Hilton Worldwide Yerba Matte
KIND
Kirsten Leigh

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Sexual Violence Response - Columbia University

Beauty Deconstructed & Andrea D. Charles from

City Girl Beauty Project for providing makeup!