• I had the privilege to speak on a panel called The Intersection of Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking on Friday during the Netroots Nation conference. I was not familiar with the conference previously and came to understand it as fostering…

    Human Trafficking and Atlanta
  • On Wednesday, I gave a presentation on The Language of Violence to my coworkers. That day was a very long time in coming – six years, to be exact. Ever since I became trained as a crisis counselor and victims…

    A Day as Big as My Dreams
  • (Read these tweets bottom up) Just consolidating some tweets here from an interaction I had this morning with a few men in a local Panera. News broke this week of Oregon State pitcher Luke Heimlich being a registered sex offender…

    The Weight of the Words We Use
  • I promise to post more details soon. Is this not a totally adorable keepsake?! But I am so appreciative and excited that I was named ESPN Volunteer of the Year today. That means an organization of my choosing receives $2500…

    So, This Happened
  • I had the distinct honor of speaking at the University of South Carolina’s It’s On Us gala event. A young woman named Mary Copeland Cain – who co-runs the campus chapter of the national It’s On Us movement to end…

    It’s On Us. All of Us.
  • Last night, Rep Earl Ehrhart, the one-man, pro-rape bill-pushing legislator from Powder Springs, pulled a slime ball move to revive HB 51 which forces GA campus sexual assault victims to enter the criminal justice system to seek remedy. In what…

  • Taking this time to celebrate that Georgia House Bill 51 – which sought to force any victims of sexual assault on Georgia college campuses to go to the police instead of a campus judiciary board if they dared bring a…

    Halle- freakin – lujah! HB51 TABLED
  •   Can I just say…and I have had these pictures in my phone the entire year that I’ve been away from this blog – it’s ABOUT DAMN TIME we see victims presented this way in media. We need to pound…

    Covers I L-O-V-E
  •   Again, I am wayyy behind on my posts but please be only slightly impressed that I KEPT ALL MY PHOTOS because I knew I’d eventually write posts needing them. So, in that warped way, I was always thinking about…

    College Speaking: Clemson University
  • On Tuesday, March 14, I was asked to participate in a panel discussion at the MOSAIC symposium hosted by the Atlanta Hawks. The invitation was a complete surprise and one that I was thankful to receive from Nzinga Shaw, the…

    Recent Speech: Atlanta Hawks and Me