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Podcast: East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray
Episode: Keeley Olson: Director of STAR, Alaska's sexual trauma prevention and response organization
Description: Send us Fan MailKeeley Olson has been the executive director of STAR since 2016. She has spent all of her adult life working with the survivors of sexual assault – from her college days in Montana through her time at STAR which began in Anchorage in 2007. STAR was founded in 1978 to respond to the needs of survivors of sexual assault. It also provides prevention and education programs to schools and organizations throughout Alaska to prevent assaults from happening. When STAR was founded the acronym stood for Standing Together Against Rape, but the organization is atte...