Spotlight on Student Organizers is a series of conversations with students who are community builders, change leaders, advocates, and community carers. In the fourth and last instalment of the series, Muzna chats with Micah Kalisch, founder and director of the Prevention Empowerment Advocacy Response Project (PEARS) for survivors at the University of Toronto.  Micah shares their experience creating a peer-led, grassroots support organization while still an undergraduate student, the need to be nimble and responsive in this work, and the compelling reasons she is called to create a community of care and support for survivors. This episode comes with a content warning. In this conversation we talk about sexual assault and abuse, which we know can be distressing topics. We offer this content warning to empower you, our audience,  to make healthy decisions about how, and if, you should consume this podcast content. Please take care.Micah is a fourth year undergraduate student doing a specialist in gender studies, a major in sociology, and a minor in equity studies. They have been doing survivor advocacy work for over half a decade and are the founder and director of The PEARS Project.Heartfelt thanks to Micah for sharing their story, and for all the amazing work you do.To learn more about the PEARS Project follow them on instagram @thepearsproject Safety and Support ResourcesIf you or anyone you know needs support around experiencing sexual or gender-based violence, Visit safety.utoronto.ca for a list of safety resources, or reach out to one the organizations listed below. Other Community Resources 24/7 Crisis Support Peel905-278-9036Assaulted Women’s Helpline1-800-863-0511Canada Suicide Prevention Service1-833-456-4566 (or text: 45645)Fem’aide1-866-860-7082First Nations, Inuit and Metis Hope and Wellness Line1-855-242-3310Gerstein Crisis Centre416-929-5200Good2Talk – Helpline for Post-secondary Students1-866-925-5454Hope 24/7: Sexual Assault Centre of Peel1-800-810-0180LGBT Youthline1-800-268-9688Info & Referral Services for Male Survivors of Sexual Violence1-866-887-0015Talk4Healing (For Indigenous Women)1-855-554-4325Toronto Rape Crisis Centre416-597-8808Trans Life Line1-877-330-6366