Andrea Pino is co-author of "We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out," and co-founder of the national survivor advocacy organization End Rape on Campus. Media includes: The New York Times, Vogue, CNN, Good Morning America.

Jaclyn Friedman’s work has redefined the concept of “healthy sexuality” and popularized the “yes means yes” standard of sexual consent that is quickly becoming law on many US campuses. She is the author of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape and What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex & Safety. Media includes: CNN, The Washington Post, Today Show, Time, BBC, Huffington Post, Salon.

Wagatwe Wanjuki is a writer and activist who first got her start blogging and organizing for social change as a co-organizer of the movement at Tufts University for an improved sexual assault policy. As a survivor-turned-activist, she uses her experience to help the most disempowered to use the power of new media to raise the voices of the most marginalized. Knowing the importance of Title IX and empowering students, she served as a contributor and media consultant with the Know Your IX campaign to educate students about their Title IX right. Media includes: PolicyMic, Feministing, ESSENCE magazine.

Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, RN, is Chief Executive Officer for the International Association of Forensic Nurses. She comes with 30 years nursing experience, with a focus on forensic nursing since 1995. She presents nationally on a variety of forensic nursing-related topics, including sexual assault and abuse, intimate partner violence, strangulation, child maltreatment and program sustainability. Media includes: CNN, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue.

Debjani Roy has been an advocate for women’s rights and equality in the US and UK for ten years. She serves as Deputy Director of Hollaback!, a movement to end street harassment powered by a network of local activists around the world.  She has worked on issues including domestic violence, sexual assault, forced marriage, 'honor' based violence, sexual trafficking/forced prostitution, widows’ rights and immigrant rights. Media includes: Fox News, Al Jazeera, NPR.  

Since 1990, Randi Bregman has worked with Vera House, Inc., a not-for-profit human service agency which prevents, responds to and partners to end domestic and sexual violence and other forms of abuse. Bregman also serves as Chair of the Syracuse Area Domestic and Sexual Violence Coalition, providing leadership to a broad community coalition dedicated to victim safety and offender accountability. Media includes: WSYR, WAER, WRVO, Spectrum News. 

Portia L. Shepard is the Prevention Education Director with Family Services of North Alabama a non-profit organization that serves survivors of sexual assault. Shepard is a consultant across a wide range of industries: political campaigns, nonprofit and professional services, environmental injustice, domestic and sexual violence and the Blackbelt of Alabama. Media incldues:  FOX News Tucker Carson, NOWTHIS.

Hannah Brancato is Co-Founder of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture. FORCE is a creative activist collaboration to upset the dominant culture of rape and promote a culture of consent. FORCE was formed in 2010 to create a more public, difficult and honest conversation, demanding that we face the realities of sexual violence in the US. To promote this needed conversation, FORCE creates art actions to generate media attention and get millions of people talking. Media includes: NPR, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, Fast Company.

As the co-founder and co-director of Healing to Action, Karla Altmayer, Esq. advances a multidisciplinary, community-driven model to transform individuals, neighborhoods, and broader communities, to break the silence of gender-based violence. Altmayer also co-founded the Coalition Against Workplace Sexual Violence (CAWSV), a collaboration among sexual assault advocates, attorneys, and labor organizers in Chicago, and co-authored its popular education curriculum and legal guide. Media includes: Univision, CBS, Vocalo, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, The Chicagoist. 

Karen Naimer directs Physicians for Human Right's Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones, a training and advocacy initiative that bolsters the ability of doctors, nurses, police officers, lawyers, and judges to support survivors of sexual violence and to collect, document, and preserve forensic evidence related to these crimes. Media includes: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, PBS NewsHour, NPR.

Chaitra “Chai” Shenoy is the Gender-Based Violence Adviser at USAID. Prior to her role at USAID, Shenoy was the Executive Director and founder of Collective Action for Safe Spaces (formerly Hollaback DC!) a mostly volunteer-run, community-based organization whose aim is to educate and address public sexual harassment and assault. She is also an attorney representing sexual assault survivors with their civil legal needs. Media includes: The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Hyphen Magazine.

Brooke Axtell is the founder of Survivor Healing and Empowerment (S.H.E.), a healing community for survivors of rape, abuse and sex trafficking. As an advocate, Axtell mentors women and girls who have experienced violence and exploitation to help them become leaders in their community. She is also the author of Beautiful Justice: Reclaiming My Worth After Human Trafficking and Sexual Abuse. Media includes:The New York Times, LA Times, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, CNN.

Angela Esquivel Hawkins is an Assistant Dean at Stanford University’s Graduate Life Office. She is also Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the As One Project, a national 501(c)(3) organization that supports friends and family of survivors of sexual assault. A survivor of sexual assault, she has committed herself to leveraging traumatic experiences into powerful catalysts for change. From 2011-2015, Esquivel Hawkins taught a sex-positive, consent-based course in Human Sexuality to undergraduates at the George Washington University, work she was inspired to do after serving as a rape crisis counselor for the District of Columbia Rape Crisis Center (DCRCC). Media includes: Huffington Post, SELF, Mainstream Mental Health Radio with Dr. John Huber.

Jane Manning is a former prosecutor who now serves as Director of Advocacy of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women, focusing on their new initiative to combat drug-facilitated sexual assault. Manning began her career as a prosecutor, specializing in cases of domestic violence, child abuse, and sex crimes. In private practice, she provided pro bono representation to a coalition of battered women’s organizations. Media includes: The New York Times, NPR.

Antonieta Rico is the Director of Communications and Policy at the Service Women's Action Network (SWAN), where she leads their public affairs efforts. She served in the U.S. Army from October 2001 to September 2008, working as a military journalist and public affairs NCO. Rico has been published in various outlets including USA TODAY and most recently wrote in TIME about the military's sexual assault epidemic and #MeToo. She also speaks on different panels and forums on the challenges women veterans and military women face. Media includes: Time, Task & Purpose, USA Today, National Geographic.

Elizabeth L. Jeglic Ph.D is a Professor of Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She is an internationally renowned expert on criminal justice reform, sexual violence prevention, child abuse prevention, sexual offenders and sex offender legislation as well as suicide and suicide prevention. She also co-edited the book Sexual Violence: Evidence Based Policy and Prevention(Springer, 2016) and is the co-author of the book: Protecting Your Child from Sexual Abuse: What you Need to Know to Keep your Kids Safe (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017). Media includes: The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Guardian.

Mary Kathryn Nagle (citizen, Cherokee Nation) is an attorney/playwright working to restore and preserve tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction. As a Partner at Pipestem Law PC, she has filed briefs in the United States Supreme Court that advocate for safety for Native women from domestic violence and sexual assault. Nagle graduated summa cum laude from Tulane Law School and subsequently clerked on both the federal district court and United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Media includes: MSNBC, MoveOn.Org, Slate.com, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post.

Laura L. Dunn, Esq., is a nationally recognized victim rights attorney. In 2014, Dunn received a J.D. from the University of Maryland Carey School of Law graduating Order of the Barristers and receiving the William P. Cunningham Award for her national advocacy on campus sexual assault, which included lobbying to pass the 2013 VAWA Reauthorization. Dunn is now the Executive Director of SurvJustice, which provides legal services to survivors across the country and trains institutions of higher education on compliance with Title IX. Extensive media experience.

Michelle Garcia joined the Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants as its director in 2016. Previously, Michelle was director at the Stalking Resource Center at the National Center for Victims of Crime in April 2006 and served as the Director of the Stalking Resource Center since October 2006. She has over twenty years of experience working with victims of stalking, sexual assault, and domestic violence in rural, suburban, and urban settings and advocating for victims’ rights on a local, state, and national level. Media includes: The Washington Post, USA Today, Voice of America, C-SPAN, HuffPost Live, Fox News.

Lisalyn R. Jacobs is the CEO of Just Solutions: Bringing in justice to counteract injustice, and the former V.P. of Government Relations for Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund). She has also fought for and secured needed protections for poor women and survivors of violence in a number of key federal laws including two reauthorizations of the Violence Against Women Act (2005 and 2013), the 2006 reauthorization of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, and the 2009 amendments to the Stimulus law. Media includes: The New York Times, NPR, MSNBC, CNN, Fox, Huffington Post.

Since 2009, JoAnn Buttaro has been a keynote speaker on the subject of rape and sexual assault with experience speaking to groups ranging from victims advocate trainings and Take Back the Night events on college and university campuses across the country. As a victim, Buttaro experienced the full range of the law enforcement process and criminal justice system resulting in a life sentence for her attacker. Throughout that time period she received trauma counseling for sexual assault/rape victims and made it to the other side healthier and stronger. Media includes: ABC News, E! True Hollywood Story, Paul Gilmartin’s Mental Illness Happy Hour, Jay Coulter’s Conquer Worry. 

Shanon Lee is a Survivor Activist & Storyteller. As an official member of the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) Speakers Bureau and the National Speakers Bureau for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), Shanon advocates for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. She is the writer, producer and director of Marital Rape Is Real. Media includes: Cosmopolitan, Playboy, Good Housekeeping, ELLE, Marie Claire, Woman's Day, Women's Health, Refinery29, BBC Radio.

Dr. Amber J. Keyser has a PhD from the University of Georgia and is the author of fifteen books for tweens and teens. She has significant expertise in sex-positive and consent-focused sex education, rape culture and the #MeToo movement, and the commodification of the female body in history, fashion, and media. She is the author of No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture (Twenty-First Century Books, 2019), a deep dive into the #MeToo movement, that dissects the beliefs, behaviors, and cultural norms that excuse and normalize male sexual aggression and violence. Media includes: Oregon Public Broadcasting, KPOV Bend Community Radio, KBOO Portland Community Radio, Portland Monthly.