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Did you know that over one in three women and nearly one in four men have experienced sexual assault at some point in their lives according to the CDC?

About one in four girls and one in thirteen boys experience sexual abuse at some point in childhood and 91% of child sexual abuse is perpetrated by someone the child or the child's family knows.

In the past year I have had multiple friends ask me if I know of resources for victims of sexual abuse.

This episode is an effort to contribute something to those people that I love and to anyone whose life has been affected by sexual abuse.

Sage Williams first felt a desire to advocate for victims of sexual abuse during her time as a full-time missionary.

After her mission she attended nursing school at BYU and worked as a research assistant studying sexual assault in the criminal justice system.

She was trained as a victims advocate and joined the Utah County rape crisis team.

Immediately after graduation she was trained as a sexual assault nurse examiner.

She received a master's degree in health policy at the London School of Economics focusing her research and thesis on the role of religious leaders in health policy formulation and implementation.

Together with Dr. Jennifer Wurtham, the executive director of the initiative on health religion and spirituality at Harvard, Sage recently organized faith and flourishing strategies for preventing and healing child sexual abuse, a symposium that was held at Harvard.

This is All-End, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be All-End the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

I'm Morgan Jones and I am so honored to have Sage Williams on the line with me today. Sage, welcome.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm really delighted to be here.

Well, I should give listeners a little bit of a background. Sage was one of the organizers of a symposium that was held at Harvard.

We were made aware of the symposium because a couple of general conference talks were shared on the symposium website and we did a quick link for LDS living and then received an email from Sage explaining that she's a member of the church and that she was involved in the symposium.

As a result, she and I ended up having a conversation about this topic, preventing childhood sexual abuse and what we can do to better start the conversation and encourage conversation within our realm as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

And so first of all, Sage, I want to hear a little bit about how you became so passionate about the subject because I should tell those listening that I was so, so impressed when we talked.

Not only because this is something that you're very articulate in speaking about, but also because of the passion that you have for this and the time and effort that you've put into being an advocate.

And so first of all, how did you become so passionate about this topic?

That's a great question. I think that I really kind of grew into being passionate about the topic through a few ways. First of all, just through meeting survivors of child sexual abuse and of sexual abuse and adulthood.

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