Jaclyn Friedman
Jaclyn Friedman is the Founder and Executive Director of EducateUS, where she is building a movement to change US public school sex education for good. Friedman’s work has globally popularized the affirmative consent standard of sexual consent. Her first book, Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, was one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 100 Books of 2009, and has inspired new laws in five U.S. states, as well as policies on countless campuses across the country and the world. She also spearheaded the legendary #FBrape campaign, which forced Facebook to address and exclude content that promotes or trivializes violence against women under their hate speech policy, and is founder and former executive director of Women, Action & the Media (WAM!).
In this WMC Talks conversation, Soraya Chemaly talks with activist and educator Jaclyn Friedman to explore why comprehensive sex education is largely absent from national discourse despite overwhelming public support for it. She explains how inclusive, K–12 sex ed goes far beyond health—shaping civic engagement, reducing violence and bullying, and strengthening democratic values like autonomy, respect, and critical thinking.
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