Councilwoman Rebecca Viagran shared her experience of learning to speak up for herself early in her career:
"I was in a meeting of all men and somebody came up behind me and started putting his hands on my shoulders,” she said. “I moved out of the way, looked at him, and said, ‘Please don’t do that again.’ … What also happened is that I found my voice to be strong enough to say that again any other time it happens.”
