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FSU's Maura’s Voice Research Fund Advances Partnership with ADL to Conduct Research to Prevent Misogynistic Violent Extremism

Maura’s Voice Research Fund (MVRF) at the Florida State University (FSU) College of Social Work and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) are renewing their partnership established in 2023 to perform research into the extremist elements of misogynistic subculture, including potentially violent incels, who continue their often-deadly attacks on women and girls in the US and around and the world.

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Maura’s Voice Marks 5 Years with Symposium and Memorial

November 2, 2023, marked five years since the hate crime shooting at a Tallahassee yoga studio that took the lives of then-FSU student Maura Binkley and FSU College of Medicine professor Dr. Nancy Van Vessem. Four other women were wounded. The victims were targeted for no other reason than being women.

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Opinion - Maura's Voice Funding FSU College of Social Work To Help Prevent Violence Against Women

**Originally published in the Tallahassee Democrat here.**

Maura’s Voice Research Fund was established by the Binkley family after losing their daughter, Maura Binkley, in the 2018 Hot Yoga Tallahassee shooting, in which FSU Medical School professor Dr. Nancy Van Vessem was also lost, and four other women were wounded.

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