Staff Writer
A local community leader is looking to share his expertise in law enforcement to better enable women to defend themselves against unwanted advances.
Zach Allman had previously worked with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office and county prosecutor’s office, and is currently a magistrate judge for the county. Allman is pulling from his years of experience to instruct a freelance class on preventing sexual assault, stalking and date rape. Allman is offering to give a roughly hour-long lesson on cultivating a safety-oriented mindset, meant to keep women less vulnerable to predation.
Allman said he was approached by members of some sororities at Bethany College, where he is a teacher, who asked him to teach a self-defense class. Rather than focus on physical defense, Allman thought it more prudent to teach women to be more mindful in avoiding danger and to react quickly in a crisis, a mindset he developed in the military.