Understanding Healthy Relationships and Dating Abuse (Youth Workshop 15+)

Healthy, is it? 

Name: Angela Lee

Title: Love Is Respect Director

Organization: The National Domestic Violence Hotline (The Hotline)

Angela Lee is the love is respect Director for The National Domestic Violence Hotline (The Hotline). They lead the strategy, implementation, and operations to ensure love is respect is the national resource to disrupt and prevent unhealthy relationships and intimate partner abuse by empowering young people through inclusive and equitable education, support, and resources.Angela, a survivor, identifies as a lesbian and knows first-hand the barriers and challenges the LGBTQ+ community faces. Angela feels youth, regardless of age, race, sexual orientation, or identity, experience severe life stressors, including unhealthy relationships, which makes their job purpose driven. Their great passion is empowering young people to find healthy perceptions of themselves as complete and safe, healthy individuals.