Last semester, the Campus Advocacy and Prevention Education (CAPE) project’s former director accepted a new job, which meant a job opening for this role. After searching over the summer and into the fall semester, they were able to hire a new CAPE director, this being Doane Alum Addison Rosno.
This role entails Rosno overseeing the CAPE Project and all CAPE Peer Educators, while also being a student support specialist. She’s now a little under a month into the job, but has already led the new and returning CAPE Peer Educators and hosted events for campus that focus on sharing resources, signing pledges and open discussions. “I’m super excited, CAPE is like my little baby,” Rosno said. “I feel like I worked really hard on it while I was in undergrad here, and so having an opportunity to come back, and keep working on it, and keep making campus a better place is just really exciting.”
Rosno then shared that former director Jaden Hilkemann was a factor in her decision to come back. Hilkemann, being her mentor, told her about the position and what it did for her as a person, which interested Rosno. Other Peer Educators also reached out to her about the position and encouraged her to apply, which made Rosno feel as though she could confidently take on this role.
Rosno is also passionate about implementing more research into CAPE education and taking in more student input about what kinds of education they want to have. She also wants CAPE to host more events centered around having conversations.
Rosno wants readers to know that CAPE will start hosting monthly “Survivors Space” meetings in November. Rosno started this club last semester, a place where survivors and supporters could hang out and conversate with like-minded people. She’s also asking people to be on the lookout for No Means November events, as CAPE will be in collaboration with some of them.
Graphic by Hailey Schweitzer
