The One Billion Rising movement was started by American playwright and feminist Eve Ensler to mark the 15th anniversary of the V-day campaign to end violence against women.
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"She was very bold, " said Ensler, who at Merlet's insistence brought her play "The Vagina Monologues" to Haiti and helped establish safe houses for women in Port-au-Prince and Cap Haitien.
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This past year, V DAY founder, Eve Ensler, work-shopped her new play in our Theater Lab with professional actors alongside our undergrad and grad students focusing on the environment and issues for women and girls.