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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Jasmine Joseph, Administrative Associate and DJ from Outsmart
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Jasmine Joseph, an Administrative Associate at Outsmart and professional DJ in New York City Nightlife, testified about the importance of Outsmart's work in addressing sexual violence in the nightlife community. She emphasized how her dual roles allow her to bring valuable insights to Outsmart's bystander intervention trainings and help tailor them to the needs of the nightlife community.
- Joseph highlighted the underreporting of sexual violence in nightlife and the importance of word-of-mouth information from the community.
- She stressed the need for funding to expand Outsmart's reach to other boroughs like the Bronx, Queens, and Upper Manhattan.
- Joseph emphasized the significance of New York City nightlife as part of the city's social fabric and the impact of Outsmart's work in this sector.
Jasmine Joseph
6:41:02
Good afternoon and thank you for allowing us to speak today.
6:41:06
My name is Jasmine Joseph and I work for Outsmart as their administrative associate and social media manager.
6:41:13
However, I've also been working as a professional DJ in New York City Nightlife for over ten years.
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I also currently work as a DJ in New York City Nightlife in addition to my role at Outsmart.
6:41:25
This allows me to do several things.
6:41:28
For one, I can bring back experiences that I'm having in my work as a DJ back to the Outsmart team, which they use to help make their curriculum and trainings, their bystander intervention trainings, which we offer to New York City nightlife venues as relevant as possible.
6:41:45
I'm also tapped into the New York City Nightlife community, specifically New York City Nightlife Workers and performers as somebody who's been DJing in New York City Nightlife for over ten years.
6:41:56
And I hear a lot of things through word-of-mouth.
6:41:58
Scarlett shared with you stats and stats are great, however, sexual violence is seriously underreported, especially in the New York City nightlife community where a lot of things that we experience, our jobs and income depend on our us being able to tolerate it in so many words.
6:42:18
And so, I am able to bring back a lot of things that I'm hearing through word-of-mouth from my community to the Outsmart team and they were able to apply the things that I'm bringing back to them to help tailor their trainings and to help make New York City nightlife community comfortable with us when we come in because there are nightlife workers on the staff who can speak their language with them.
6:42:41
Additionally, I just wanna say that prior to being a DJ, I was simply a patron.
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I am a native New Yorker and I love this city.
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New York City nightlife is a huge part of the social fabric of this city and I really truly believe after the past three years of working with Outsmart that the work that they do is incredibly impactful and I really think that the funding would help us to expand our reach outside of Brooklyn, Manhattan where we're most active to boroughs like Bronx and Queens and also Upper Manhattan, Harlem where we're really looking to target.
6:43:18
So, thanks again for allowing me to speak.