Join us on March 11th at 7pm central time as Aradia, Dawn, and Tish speak with Lisa Brady Veal.
Lisa is a former nurse, who left after giving it 25+years, her back and both knees. She now works for a pathology lab doing coding and insurance. She is married, and the step-mom to two teenage boys, and human mom to three cats. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse, as well as domestic violence and sexual assaults as an adult, Lisa is a trained rape crisis counselor and victim’s advocate. She left the battered women’s shelter she worked at for years, but she still works on her own to assist women in their journey from “victim” to “survivor,” and to support victims in the area. She has appeared in two productions of The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler. Never interested in politics in the past, Lisa is now horrified to watch what the current administration is preparing to do to not only women’s rights, but to LGBTQ rights, healthcare, and our country as a whole. This horror has empowered her to speak out in ways she has never before done. On January 21, the day after Trump’s inauguration, and her own 47thbirthday, Lisa joined thousands of other women for the Women’s March on Nashville, coinciding with marches all across the country for the same purpose. Since then, she has proudly protested twice more (with others already planned) in her small college-town of Cookeville, TN , standing up and giving her voice for topics such as supporting Planned Parenthood and a woman’s right to make her own medical decisions, safe abortion, a free and unrestricted media, immigration, Native Americans’ rights, and proper healthcare.
Lisa Brady Veal. Survivor. Warrior. Defender. Pagan. Feminist. Wife. Mother. Proud Nasty Woman.