Anchor Point Documentary and Q&A with Holly Tuckett and Kelly Martin

1001 Northwest 4th Street,Gainesville FL 32601

10 April, 2022

Description

Anchor Point is a documentary film about women changing the culture of firefighting on our nation’s public lands. Testifying before Congress was the last thing Kelly Martin wanted to do. But for decades she had been keeping a secret. Early in her U.S. Forest Service career, she had been victimized by a sexual predator; her co-worker at the Grand Canyon. When new reports of assault at the park surfaced in 2016, Kelly could no longer be silent. So she went to Congress and told the world that these horrific experiences are far too common among women in wildland firefighting. Kelly’s bravery earned her a spot among Time magazine’s Silence Breakers, which launched the #MeToo movement. It also fueled the creation of the annual Women-in-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (WTREX), a place where women train shoulder to shoulder to develop their skills as firefighters and leaders. Addtionally there will be a Q and A with the director of the film Holly Tucket and Kelly Martin. We would like to thank our sponsors for making this event possible. The Student Association for Fire Ecology, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, University of Florida Biodiversity Institute, Southern Fire Exchange, and Florida Museum of Natural History.