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We were so excited to partner with Girls Fight Back to host a virtual self defense training session as part of our Empowerment Summit Digital Learning Series, which is a program geared towards high school students who identify as female. From start-to-finish the process was informative, collaborative and seamless.

​Nicole is an absolute rock star and made a virtual event fun, engaging and empowering for all who attended. As a result of the session, young women in our community are now more equipped with practical and empowering options for violence prevention and self-defense.

Denver Broncos Community Development

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Nicole is a GREAT speaker. She was really engaging and interacting with the students. We enjoyed the step-by-step basic self-defense, she made everyone feel comfortable and created a safe space for students to be able to try it out!  Her travel stories were also very engaging and captivating.

Jocelin Crisantos
Graduate Intern, Women's Center
Eastern Connecticut State University

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We loved it! Nicole was great, she was really helpful. The students enjoyed the event, as did I. Thank you for working with us! I hope we can have more events together in the future.

Brenda Bravo
President, Latinas In Power Club
Westchester Community College

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Erin has honored her friend by starting this program and empowering women. I really think women need to know they can fight back.

John Walsh
Founder of America's Most Wanted

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Bree was amazing! The presentation was absolutely fantastic! She was very engaging with the students and knew how to relate with them on their level. She had me laughing throughout the presentation. I would love to bring this organization back to campus, perhaps the Students Fight Back Program. Bree was phenomenal with the crowd we offered her. I have received nothing but praise from the professional staff that were in attendance, including the Director of our Counseling Center and our Victim Advocate. Also, because of her presentation a few of us in Campus Recreation and Wellness have signed up for a Women’s Self-Defense class! I look forward to working with you all in the future.

Lydia Hitchcock
Interim Assistant Director for Wellness Promotions East Carolina University

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The message is perfect, but the delivery is what sells the show. Bree is young and relate-able. She did an awesome job of being funny, but yet getting the message across. Bree Swartz is fantastic presenter for students fight back. She's highly engaging and excellent at incorporating the students into the presentation. I will have Students Fight Back return again and hope to bring other programming that Girls Fight Back offers.

Claire Wiegand
​William Woods University

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GFB is amazing at getting this important information to women in a way that is empowering and engaging. I don’t think that I have ever heard anyone speak about self-defense with that much enthusiasm and humor.

Stephanie Ahrens
​Baylor University

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GFB is truly sensational and inspirational. I love that she didn’t make me fearful of attackers or of being attacked. Instead, it made me aware of my surroundings, and her techniques made me feel safer. This presentation is one that I would definitely see again.

Suzanne Smith
​Texas A&M University

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Thank you so much for coming to OWU. I have already heard a ton of positive feedback! Absolutely wonderful to have you come on campus to empower and educate our community. Thank you so much for making the trip out here and creating such a lively and interactive presentation.

Elise Baer
President of Panhellenic Association
​Ohio Wesleyan University

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Bree gave a very animated and memorable performance. She had audience participation and gave great demonstrations.

Tanya Ridpath
Director of Community Programs
​Roanoke College

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She (Bree) was fantastic at engaging students and keeping their attention. Good energy and mixture of activity and lecture. People who we never see at our events came up to us and thanked us for bringing her to campus.

Ashley Hoffman
​Student Programming Board Chair, University of Minnesota – Crookston

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The workshop went very well and we heard lots of positive feedback from the participants. Nicole was very fun and engaging. We'll keep Girls Fight Back in mind for future programs. Thanks very much!

Megan Tagle Adams, Director,
Women's Resource Center,
California State University, Dominguez Hills

 

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We had a great session with Nicole! Nicole's presence was very encouraging & I appreciated how she shaped the presentation to fit our outdoorsy women & non-binary folks crowd. Her use of interaction made the Zoom call very engaging.

Sarah Histand
Owner
​Ski Babes

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Nicole specifically was BADASS! We loved her energy, her information, her genuine delivery of the topic. She deserves special applause!

May Isbell
​Troop Leader
Girl Scouts Troop 15875

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Everything about Nicole's talk was fantastic and she was so great to work with. The material was relevant to our group and well presented. Thank you!

Sarah Canney
Founder
Rise.Run.Retreat

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We had an amazing self-defense session at practice on Friday to teach our girls cross-country team some basic safety tactics. The 75-minute session was really well-paced and very digestible, and the trainer, Nicole is amazing: super high energy, easy to work with, very professional. I want her on anyone's radar in case there's an opportunity to bring her into physical education, to work with athletic teams, or to offer something for the general student body. The girls raved about the session, and I hope we can do this again in the future!

Jill Henry
Head Coach, Girl's Cross Country
Flintridge Preparatory School

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Nicole did a great job presenting real-life response to unwanted contact, even through a Zoom meeting.  She was incredibly helpful and informative.  We will reach out to her again!


Sarah Luna
Director of Wellness
St Agnes Academy (Houston, TX)

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Nicole was amazing! She was able to fully go through her entire presentation and capture each student's interest! Nicole was also very personable and was able to connect on a personal level with each student as well! 10/10
I loved how Nicole was able to demonstrate all of her moves and get every student to stand up and do it together! We were able to create a safe space for each other! Passersby would also pop their heads into the room as they were wondering what the noise was! It was awesome to see my students be that involved with Nicole.
No complaints at all! All positives! Nicole was able to tailor her presentation to match the energy of the room! Thank you again for all your help in making this a smooth transition and event!

Brooke Gibson
Student Activities and Engagement Specialist
Fox Valley Technical College - Appleton

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Very satisfied. This was such an empowering moment and session for the students. I loved how organized it was and how the information is laid out. The amount of time for the Q&A was perfect, and I loved ending with all the students holding up their words of empowerment.


Ashley Meyer
​Stem Director - Biology Instructor - Poms Coach
Acero Schools

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Hi, Gina! Wanted to tell you what an amazing job Morgan did Monday night. She was amusing and very engaging with the audience. You could tell that she had a wonderful connection with ALL the ladies that attended. She made Shannon proud!

Cindy McNamara
Mother of Shannon McNamara

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Bree was great. She had to do her presentation with no mics and the videos were messing up. In spite of all of the technical difficulties, Bree was engaging and fun. I have heard nothing but positive feedback regarding the Girls Fight Back presentation.

Allison C. Ouellette
Director of Residence and Student Life
​Neosho County Community College

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I've worked in Student Activities for some time now, and Girls Fight Back completely blew me away with their presentation. They were prepared, prompt, engaging, and professional. I haven't been this impressed with an event in quite some time. Bree was engaging, dynamic, and poised. She connected with our group of students, and kept the presentation fun and interactive.

Sarah Hilston
​HACC – York

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Girls Fight Back was an awesome and fun event! The subject matter was of special interest on our campus, and we had an awesome turnout! Bree was able to make the subject matter serious, yet fun!

Ali Morrissette
​St. Xavier University

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Girls Fight Back was easily the best program I have seen come to Denison since I have been here. It was educational and entertaining. The women who went could not stop talking about it the next day. I will take what I learned from Erin and use it for the rest of my life.

Blair Dunlevy
​Denison University

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Nicole was WONDERFUL. We have a small campus and sometimes our audiences can be small. In the past, this has almost bothered presenters in some way (much more intimate than they are used to, I suppose). Nicole was not bothered at all. She embraced all of the students and made great use of the intimate setting. She is such a dynamic and engaging speaker, and the students really enjoyed her. I cannot praise her enough.

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Yesterday we had the event and I wanted to thank you for your assistance in bringing this excellent event to our campus. The speaker was AMAZING! We all walked away inspired and empowered. Thank you again and we hope to work with you next year.

Gisela Rivera
Director of Student Leadership & Development Queensborough Community College

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Just wanted to once again thank you so much for presenting for our new member education! I've had a ton of people raving about how wonderful the presentation was. I can't wait to coordinate more events in the future!

Taelor Trimble
Vice President, Panhellenic Council (PHA)
​California Polytechnic State University
​San Luis Obispo

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Bree was AMAZING!!! She was personable and very knowledgeable. Our guests had a great time and learned a wealth of knowledge that could help save their lives.

Caleb Fils-Aime
​Nova Southeastern University

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Students were talking about and practicing what they had learned as they walked out of the seminar and all the way back to their homes. I was very impressed by that!

Jordan Coplin
​North Dakota State University

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Nicole was fantastic and the presentation went really well. It was great to have such an interactive virtual experience. 
 
I'll be in touch in the coming weeks about a potential partnership for another one of our fall Virtual Retreats--it was great to have Nicole as a guest speaker and we'd love to have her back. 

Sarah Canney
​Founder
Rise.Run.Retreat

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Nicole was a wonderful speaker. She was very respectful to us and she was so energetic and I felt so comfortable talking to her!

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Girl Scouts Troop 15875

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