Elizabeth Phillips
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He ended his life in 2019.
And I've been on a journey ever since to find out what happened to my brother.
And then that led down this path of
what's up with Kanakuk and then what's up with summer camps in general?
And so I've been like Erin Brockovich-ing this whole situation of like, how do we get to the bottom of what's going on here?
And then how do we prevent it in the future?
Speaking specifically about institutional child sexual abuse.
We're going to laugh.
We're going to cry.
We're going to feel all the things.
I know I'm going to cry because talking about my brother's the hardest part of this for me.
I can talk about statistics and stuff all day, but I'm here because I lost a sibling under really horrible circumstances that he didn't deserve.
Thanks.
You've lost a lot of people too.
So we grew up in, I was born in Boston.
Dad was in grad school up there.
I moved to Tampa, Florida, and then to Dallas, and then Atlanta, and then back to Dallas.
So I changed schools eight times before college.
Always the new kid.
Kind of sink or swim, right?