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Even with the airlines' more-restrictive baggage limit, I was able to transport some of Portland's creative spirit to New Orleans. I'm here for a national sexual-assault training for law enforcement officers, lawyers, nurses and domestic violence workers from across the country.
The conference, titled Transforming Our Nation's Response to Rape, is looking for new ideas -- besides legal remedies -- to help victims. So, I'm importing a suggestion the folks in the room might not have heard:...

1 in 4 girls will be date raped before college. 140,000 abductions will be attempted
this year. What can girls do to stop these statistics from becoming fact? Dallas Jessup
had a plan. What she didn't realize was that her plan would turn into a program that
would help girls all over the world.
Q. What school do you attend and what are your college plans?
A. I'm junior in high school at St. Mary's Academy in Portland, and reside in Vancouver, Washington....

CHICAGO - The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has selected its 2008 list of Notable Children's Videos. The list includes videos for children 14 years of age and younger that exhibit especially commendable quality, show respect for children's intelligence and imagination and reflect and encourage the interests of children in exemplary ways.
The selected videos are:
"Becoming an Organized Student," Human...

Jessup a Finalist
Vancouver's Dallas Jessup was a big winner with online voters who named her one of the finalists for the Volvo Life Awards.
Jessup, 16, will be awarded $10,000 as a finalist in the exceptional child hero category. She could receive $25,000 if chosen the overall winner at a ceremony March 19 in New York City.
Jessup, who attends St. Mary's Academy in Portland, wrote, produced and co-starred in "Just Yell Fire," a film that shows women how to protect themselves...

FORT COLLINS, CO, Jan 23 /PRNewswire/ - America's most recognized teen safety advocate, Dallas Jessup (16), will speak and conduct workshops along with co-star Matt Wadzita at the 2008 Amazing Women's Safety Awareness Conference on February 2, 2008.
Attendees will view Jessup's Just Yell Fire film and Dallas and Matt will teach some simple street fighting techniques (including eye gouging, face biting, whip-slapping an ear and seven others) that anyone can learn in less than an hour. The...

Dallas Jessup
Vancouver, Washington
Watching on the news the surveillance video showing an older man grabbing a young girl at a car wash and kidnapping her, Dallas Jessup was outraged. The abduction, and subsequent rape and murder, of eleven-year-old Carlie Brucia shocked the entire nation. But when the shock and anger subsided, and her abductor was finally captured, many went on with their lives and forgot about the young girl whose own life had been so savagely cut short. But Dallas,...

Corporate Social Responsibility Press Release- CSR News from Volvo Cars of North America
Finalists Named in 6th Annual Volvo for life Awards
Celebrity Judges To Now Select Top Four Winners; Grand Award Winner will be Named March 19 in New York City
(CSRwire) IRVINE, CA. - January 16, 2008 - For the past nine weeks hundreds of thousands of members of the American public have been casting their votes online to decide the country's favorite hometown heroes in the 6th Annual Volvo...

All the Cool Girls we feature in the magazine are seriously cool. And Dallas Jessup is no exception. Just a few days after our interview, she was the Keynote Speaker at the Annual FBI Conference in Oregon and received a standing ovation from 200 FBI agents. How cool is that? Here’s more from out interview with Dallas...
GL: Tell us about your martial arts background?
I started out in Tae Kwon Do when I was 10. Once I started I really loved the sport, the competitive spirit,...

Dallas Jessup, a Vancouver teenager vying for a national award for teaching girls how to fend off attackers, is offering her Just Yell Fire video for free on her Web site. You can also vote for her in the Volvo For Life contest. Visit her Web site at www.justyellfire.com.