Video producer, writer and director Grace Poore has firsthand knowledge of what it is like to grow up in a violent home. It is this personal experience that drives the focus of her documentaries and the passion for her work as an activist who produces and uses videos to advocate for an end to violence against women and girls.
Poore has been giving workshops and interactive seminars to campus and community groups internationally for over ten years where much of her work looks at incestuous sexual abuse in South Asian communities, as well as the intersections between domestic violence and other oppressions, and how mainstreaming the movement to stop domestic violence continues to marginalize women who defy the conventional understanding of violence in intimate relationships.
She has worked for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women in Sri Lanka as well as the US-based National Coalition Against Domestic Violence where she did crisis advocacy on the national battered women's hotline and edited the quarterly journal, NCADV Voice.
As a videomaker, Poore blurs the line between those who are survivors of violence and those who are traditionally thought of as ìexpertsî on violence. Her award-winning videos, ìVoices Heard, Sisters Unseenî and ìThe Children We Sacrificeî are widely used by advocates working to stop child sexual abuse, women's rights groups, battered women's programs, mental health agencies, colleges and universities in the United States and around the world.
Poore has published in various journals and anthologies and is a graduate of Syracuse University. She is a South Asian of dual Tamil heritage, born and raised in Malaysia. She has lived in the US for the last 20 years.
