BraveBU Coalition

Bellarmine’s Coordinated Community Response Team (CCRT), sometimes referred to as the BraveBU Coalition, is a team of faculty, staff, students, and community partners working to form an effective response to sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking through comprehensive prevention and intervention efforts. 

A coordinated community response approach ensures a timely, culturally relevant, and respectful response to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking committed on or off campus. Implementing such an approach requires establishing a CCRT. This team coordinates all prevention and intervention efforts; facilitates communication between key campus departments and community partners; ensures messages across efforts are consistent and reinforced; and ensures the system’s response to victims is seamless, consistent, and supportive.

Values 

We commit to the following core values in order to successfully live out the CCRT’s mission: 

  • Providing innovative solutions and programmatic offerings to the campus and greater community. 

  • Offering a supportive environment for victims, survivors, and the campus community. 

  • Encouraging faculty, staff, students and the greater BU community to be courageous in the development and implementation of practices, programs, and protocols surrounding gender-based and sexual violence. 

  • We believe in the practice of utilizing person-centered and trauma-informed responses, practices, and protocols.  

  • We will foster a culture that strives for equity as a solution to end gender-based violence. 

  • Our pursuit to eradicate gender-based violence is inclusive across gender, race, and all other social identities. 

  • We hold on to the hope that individuals and institutions have the innate ability to grow and change to shift social and cultural norms to end all gender-based violence. 

Current CCRT Coalition Members

We commit to the following core values in order to successfully live out Brave BU Coalition’s mission:

  • Danielle White*, Sexual Assault Prevention Coordinator 

  • Emily Werner*, Associate Director of Campus Wellness 

  • Allison Schumaker Smithkier*, Assistant Dean of Students & Chief Title IX Officer 

  • Marlana Bragg*, Associate Director of Clinical Services 

  • Meghan Ware*, LMPD Victim Services Unit 

  • Annie Coryell, Associate Athletic Director, NCAA Compliance 

  • Debbie Fox, Director of Public Safety 

  • Lindsay Gargotto, Director, Office of Military & Veteran Student Services 

  • Lindsey Gilmore, Director of Residence Life 

  • Kam Guess, COII AmeriCorps VISTA- Knights of Color 

  • Angel Kitchens, BraveBU Student Ambassador 

  • Evah-Marie Lemma, BraveBU Student Ambassador 

  • Amanda Martin, Director of Sexual Assault Services, Center for Women & Families 

  • Leslie Maxie, Dean of Students 

  • Kyle Rieber, Deputy Director of Public Safety 

  • Daeja Robinson, Assistant Director, Carver Office of Identity & Inclusion 

  • Jacob Smith, Associate Director of Residence Life 

  • Michael Watts, Residence Life Coordinator 

 

*Core Team