Lockwood wins national Visionary Voice Award

Becky Lockwood, associate director of the Center for Women & Community, is one of 23 people in the country being recognized by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) for their outstanding work to end sexual violence.

Each April as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the NSVRC gives its Visionary Voice Awards to outstanding individuals nominated by state, territorial and tribal coalitions. Lockwood was nominated by Jane Doe Inc., the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.

The Center for Women & Community houses the rape crisis center for survivors of all gender expressions in the Five College community and Hampshire County. Lockwood co-chairs the statewide Higher Education Sexual Violence Working Group, an advisory committee of the Governor’s Council on Sexual and Domestic Violence, and worked on the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s EMPOWER project, which completed a statewide sexual assault prevention plan in 2010.

Lockwood joined the center’s staff in 2001 and currently co-chairs the statewide Higher Education Working Group on Sexual and Domestic Violence, an advisory committee of the Governor’s Council on Sexual and Domestic Violence, and worked on the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s EMPOWER project, which completed a statewide sexual assault prevention plan in 2010.

Lockwood also worked for 10 years as director of youth programs at Community Action, where she created and implemented prevention programs focused on reducing youth substance abuse, teen pregnancy, interpersonal violence and HIV/AIDS, and developed and facilitated the area’s first social support group for youth who identify themselves as queer/transgender.

A celebration of Lockwood’s award is scheduled for Tuesday, April 30 from 2:15- 3:45 p.m. in the Reading Room, on the second floor of New Africa House.