By LINN ANN HUNTINGTON
Special to Hays Post
Drs. Curt and Christie Brungardt, professors emeriti at Fort Hays State University, will be back on campus Friday, Oct. 10. They will deliver an American Democracy Project Times Talk in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The couple founded Jana’s Campaign in memory their daughter, Jana Mackey, a Hays native who was a 25-year-old law student at the University of Kansas when she lost her life to violence perpetrated by an ex-boyfriend in 2008.
Jana’s Campaign is an organization dedicated to preventing relationship-based violence.
The Brungardts will be speaking from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Trails Room of the Memorial Union on campus. A light lunch will be provided. Their free presentation is titled “Behind Every Statistic is a Story.”
Dr. Hsin-Yen Yang, co-director of the American Democracy Project at FHSU, said in a news release: “This timely discussion will explore the realities of relationship violence, its far-reaching impact, and how we can work together to prevent it—on campus and beyond. Through storytelling, education, and real-world strategies, Jana’s Campaign will challenge us to look beyond the statistics and recognize the human lives behind them. Learn how advocacy, leadership, and student action can help end the cycle of abuse and build safer communities.”
A Zoom option is available at https://fhsu.zoom.us/j/87459170203?pwd=fKallyDd6WWJqcRRsXc7G9Tk3bzWPg.1.
The meeting ID is 874 5917 0203, and the passcode is 536587. Yang said that the session will also be recorded.
More information about Jana’s Campaign is available at janascampaign.org.