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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Dallas Jessup, founder of the nonprofit organization, 'Just Yell Fire,' taught girls at Girls Incorporated Tuesday how to defend themselves.
Jessup, a Vanderbilt University student originally from Vancouver, Wash., created the nonprofit to help girls defend themselves against assault and abduction.

Girls Incorporated of Oak Ridge will sponsor the program "Just Yell Fire," presented by founder Dallas Jessup.
Jessup is a student at Vanderbilt University, and she developed this program while in high school after learning that 1 in 4 girls will be sexually assaulted and that there are 114,000 attempted abductions each year in the U.S. She set out to create a home movie to teach her schoolmates some street fighting techniques to defend themselves. In 60 days she had a professional crew...

Eighteen-year-old Dallas Jessup has grown a community service project into a nonprofit program that has become a global all-girl revolution:
Dallas Jessup is an activist. She fights against sexual predators who attack girls worldwide, and she recently testified before the U.S. House of Representatives. “The police can’t be everywhere; parents can’t be everywhere -- girls are having to learn how to defend themselves.”
Dallas Jessup is a filmmaker. She produced...

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At 13 years old, Dallas Jessup, a Martial Arts Black Belt, saw a news clip about a girl who was abducted and murdered. She realized that this could have happened to her or any of her classmates. She also thought that...

Vanderbilt sophomore Dallas Jessup already has a resume that many would envy.
Her high school community service project has grown into a worldwide nonprofit called Just Yell Fire with a message to protect young women against sexual assault, predators and human trafficking. “The Vanderbilt faculty and administration encourage us to live high-impact lives,” Jessup says.
Jessup, a communication studies and political science double major, founded Just Yell Fire in 2006. The...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – "Just Yell Fire" has captured the attention and support of the local Girls Incorporated organization, and Girls Inc. representatives are hoping this "Fire" will spread across the city next Tuesday through Thursday.
"Dallas Jessup is the founder of Just Yell Fire, a nonprofit program committed to helping girls defend themselves," Girls Inc.'s officials explain in a news release. "She is conducting her teen safety program (this month) to teach our girls skills that...

Just Yell Fire, has taken on the problem of keeping teenage girls safe from assault, abduction, and even death. They teach girls that they have the right to fight back and giving them the skills to stop them selfs from getting raped.
They have a movie all about learning about how to fight back. They say that if you ever get into a life threatening situation like getting kidnapped, or anything else to Just Yell Fire, more people will get involved if you yell it.
Since...

A teenage girl is at the bus stop, or at an ATM, or in a parking lot. A man approaches to ask her for directions, grabs hold of her arm and drags her kicking and screaming to his car.
Or maybe she is on a run – the same run she does every day through her quiet neighborhood. Only this time, a man is waiting. He throws his arms around her from behind and cages her in his vice-like grip.
The danger could also lie closer to home with a boyfriend or...

For the past five years a young woman from the state of Washington has made it her mission to teach girls how to defend themselves from attackers. The teen plans to spread her message one high school at a time.
It may look like a gym class at Albion Central School, but it's not.
11-year-old Michayla Kovaleski is learning early how to protect herself. It's a lesson from a role model who has made it her mission to teach self defense to teens and young girls.
At age...

At 13 years of age, Dallas Jessup earned her black belt in tae kwon do. Now 18, she has spent the last four years teaching young girls all over the world how to defend themselves.
Jessup, of Vancouver, Wash., founded Just Yell Fire in 2005. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to teaching basic street-fighting skills to teenage girls to fend off attackers and avoid a possible abduction or sexual assault.
“The idea is to get about five seconds to get away from a bad...