((PKG))  RESTORE DIGNITY JEWELRY   
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((Topic Banner:  Healing through Beauty))  
((Reporter:  Maxin Moskalkov))
((Camera:  Andrey Degtyarev))  
((Adapted by:  Zdenko Novacki)) 
((Map:  Washington, D.C.))    
((Main characters:  3 female))  
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((Ellie Clougherty, Co-Founder, Restore Dignity))  
I started making jewelry a few years ago as a form of art therapy 
for PTSD [Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder].  So, I was going 
through re-exposure therapy and part of that therapy you have to 
recall, kind of like, tough images.  So, being surrounded by 
beautiful gemstones, sparkle, other cultures, was really an 
inspiration.  
((Kristen Malinowski, Co-Founder, Restore Dignity)) 
We decided to create a jewelry business because we wanted an 
economy to support other survivors.  Both me and Ellie are 
survivors of sexual assault.  So, we first decided to create the 
jewelry business, but we wanted to have a non-profit behind it.  
That's why, with Ann, we started Restore Dignity.  
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((Ann Clougherty, Ellie’s Mother & Executive Director, 
Restore Dignity)) 
Before the jewelry company, we became pretty big activists in the 
campus sexual assault space.  So, after Ellie came home from 
school, I got myself very educated on what happens to a person 
who's been sexually assaulted and how does that impact their life.  
And then we decided that we saw a void in a space of support 
that was directly helping a student in real time while they're in 
school. 
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((Kristen Malinowski, Co-Founder, Restore Dignity)) 
That’s what Restore Dignity is.  We're just strangers that have 
your back.  We're going to support you whatever it is you need.  If 
you need to change locations, get a meal plan because you lost 
your job, you need tuition assistance, you need medical help, we 
are there to help you.  
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((Ellie Clougherty, Co-Founder, Restore Dignity)) 
Survivors will actually tell us, like, what their needs are.  And then 
within three weeks, we'll turn around the funds.  So, I think from 
this, like, D.C. Democratic empowering community, we've been 
able to spread that message to New York, to California.  
((Kristen Malinowski, Co-Founder, Restore Dignity)) 
Throughout the whole world, actually.  
((Ellie Clougherty, Co-Founder, Restore Dignity)) 
London.   
((Kristen Malinowski, Co-Founder, Restore Dignity)) Yeah. 
((Ellie Clougherty, Co-Founder, Restore Dignity))  
Yeah.  And it's such a simple message, but everyone relates to it, 
especially if you turn your focus away from the perpetrator and to 
the survivor, and just say, “How can we rehabilitate this student?  
How can we get them back on the path they were on?”  I mean, 
that's like one of the purest forms of justice and there's really 
nothing stopping you.  
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((Ann Clougherty, Ellie’s Mother & Executive Director, 
Restore Dignity)) 
As a parent, educate yourself on what power imbalance looks like 
and what that power imbalance could be, whether it's a 
relationship with a teacher, a coach, a boyfriend, and really 
understand if your student, your child is experiencing a different 
pattern of behavior than is normal,  more than likely, they might 
have experienced something that they don't want to talk about. 
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((Ellie Clougherty, Co-Founder, Restore Dignity))  
A symptom of PTSD is that you can't imagine the future, which 
you can imagine every other symptom, from hypervigilance to 
just, kind of like, intense emotions but just not being able to 
imagine your future is one that, I think, is really debilitating.  
Because how could you plan your career?  How could you call a 
friend and check in with someone?  Like, it doesn't happen as 
often.  
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((Ann Clougherty, Ellie’s Mother & Executive Director, 
Restore Dignity)) 
That trauma puts us all in the same space.  And that supporting a 
person who's been sexually traumatized whether, you know, they 
go to an Ivy League school or they are in a community college, it 
doesn't matter to us.  It's just that if you have been traumatized, 
we want to support you.  
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