I am a sexual assault nurse examiner in Philadelphia. For the past 10 years, I have also studied how people heal after sexual harm, and I answer anonymous questions from survivors on Our Wave, a free online healing platform for people who have experienced violence. In both places, the question I hear most often is “Does this count?” Cornell’s Jane Doe spent three weeks asking herself that question.
What does it cost us to always be the strong one? This week, Tracey-Lee Kotzen sits down with Kyle Linton, Dr Njabulo Banda and Mari Lee to explore what happens when we carry our struggles in silence and feel unable to say when we are not okay. From the pressure to appear strong to the difficulty of asking for help, this is a conversation about vulnerability, connection and what we lose when we cannot speak about our struggles.
Meet three technologists using AI to protect survivors of violence, tackle food insecurity, and bring mobile healthcare to remote Nigeria — then watch them debate whether AI can truly be trusted in life-or-death settings.
