Hundreds of men took part in the annual Walk a Mile in Their Shoes event, wearing high heels to raise awareness about sexual assault and domestic violence.
What do you call a crowd of more than 600 people — overwhelmingly men — walking around Santana Row in high heels and carrying signs? If you’re Adriana Caldera Boroffice, CEO of the YWCA of Golden Gate Silicon Valley, you’d call that a huge success.
Walkers, including hundreds of men wearing high heels, take to the streets at Santana Row in San Jose for the YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley's Walk a Mile in Their Shoes event on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Members of the San Jose State men's basketball team were among the walkers at Santana Row in San Jose for the YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley's Walk a Mile in Their Shoes event on Thursday, June 22, 2023.
They aren’t the only ones. The well-heeled included the members of plumbers and steamfitters union Local 393 and IBEW, employees of law firm Cooley, Meriwest Credit Union, Oracle and the Santa Clara County Probation Department. San Jose City Councilmembers Domingo Candelas and Sergio Jimenez were in heels , as was emcee Marcus Washington of NBC Bay Area and Assistant District Attorney James Gibbons-Shapiro, who again rallied the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office around the event.
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