Shelby Knox

Shelby Knox directs and manages the online safety team at ParentsTogether. In addition to the campaign work, she leads the online safety team’s robust federal and state legislative portfolio and is a frequent media spokesperson. Previously, Shelby founded the Women’s Rights vertical at change.org, where she developed a distributed campaigning platform for college survivors of sexual violence and got the FBI to change their outdated definition of rape. Shelby also has extensive experience in documentary film and ran Netflix’s first funded impact campaign for a documentary, Audrie & Daisy.

In 2005, Knox was the subject of the Sundance award-winning film, The Education of Shelby Knox, a documentary chronicling her teenage activism for comprehensive sex education and gay rights in her Southern Baptist community. After the film’s release, Shelby became a national advocate for comprehensive sex education, testifying before Congress and many other local and regional civic bodies about the failure of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.

A widely-sought after speaker and prominent media commentator on feminism and reproductive rights, Shelby travels across the country as an itinerant feminist organizer, doing trainings, workshops and civil disobedience in the name of reproductive justice and sexual health. Follow Shelby on Twitter @ShelbyKnox.

(The ParentsTogether Online Safety Team organizes parents to fight for a safer internet and hold Big Tech accountable for online harms.)