Waltham-Based Domestic Violence Service Agency to Honor Lasell Educator

WALTHAM, MA - A Lasell College educator and advocate for victims of domestic violence will be honored for her work by a local domestic violence service agency.

Karin Raye, an associate professor of Justice Studies at the school, will receive a Voice for Justice Award from REACH Beyond Domestic Violence on June 1.

"This award is well-deserved for her work in this field, and for all she has done to advance Lasell community awareness of and activism around domestic and relationship violence," Jim Ostrow, Lasell's Vice President of Academic Affairs, said in a release on the college's website.

REACH Beyond Domestic Violence will hold its annual meeting June 1, which will also include a panel discussion called "Supporting the Young People in our Lives: Addressing Relationship Violence on College Campuses."

Raye will be joined by Jacqueline Anchondo, director of Title IX Compliance and Title IX coordinator at Mount Ida College, and Ashleigh Hala, associate director of Wellness and director of Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Service at Babson College, for a panel discussion.

REACH was founded in 1981 as the Waltham Battered Women Support Committee, Inc. by a group of volunteers seeking to establish domestic violence services in the community. In 2004 it changed its name to REACH, which is an acronym for Refuge, Education, Advocacy and Change.