She works to provide educational workshops to students, staff, and faculty at a dozen NYC colleges and universities about sexual violence awareness, prevention, consent, and bystander skills. Jeenie Yoon (moderator), LMSW works at the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault as the Campus Sexual Assault Coordinator. He has led multi-lingual training, education and research efforts for organizations including: the United Nations (UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations), MTV, Planned Parenthood, Durex, Hetrick-Martin Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York Academy of Medicine, and the NAACP. For 20 years, Francisco has dedicated his career to responding to the sexual health and public health needs of diverse communities worldwide. As a PAVE ambassador, Chessy travels around the country to speak about the importance of consent education in K-12 schools encourages survivors and others to assert their most important, basic rights and uses her voice to let other survivors know that they are not alone.įrancisco Ramirez holds a Master of Public Health (concentration in sexuality & health) from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health where he was named a Rosenfield Scholar in Sexual and Reproductive Health. In August 2016 she launched the #IHaveTheRightTo initiative with the organization PAVE, for which she is an ambassador. Chessy’s case and the trial garnered national and international media attention, as her assault was part of a ritual competition at the school called "Senior Salute." Two years later, in Chessy’s pursuit of justice, she decided to step forward publicly. There, as a freshman, Chessy was the victim of a sexual assault. Paul’s School-a boarding school in New Hampshire that her father and sister had attended. Raised in Japan, Chessy matriculated to St. However, there’s no denying the survivor’s experience caused us to look anew at the culture and environment.Chessy Prout is a high school sexual assault survivor. In a statement to Today, the school said, in part: “We categorically deny that there ever existed at the School a culture or tradition of sexual assault. The school has denied the family’s allegations. Prout, who initially returned to St Paul’s for her sophomore year before transferring to a different school, said “nobody was talking about the issue … They weren’t trying to prevent it from happening to anyone else.” Prout and her family also spoke to Today about the civil suit they filed against the elite school in June, alleging that Labrie’s attack was the result of the school “fostering, permitting, and condoning a tradition of ritualized statutory rape”, according to the lawsuit. I have the right to say no,’” Prout said. “I want other people to feel empowered and just strong enough to be able to say: ‘I have the right to my body. Prout is working with Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment, a nonprofit focused on sexual violence prevention, to launch a social media campaign, #IHaveTheRightTo. Labrie’s defense team denied that the two had sex. And the fact that he was still able to pull the wool over a group of people’s eyes bothered me a lot and just disgusted me in some way.”Īfter the trial, Labrie had been free while appealing against his conviction before a judge sent him to jail for violating the conditions of his bail. “That frustrated me a lot because he definitely did do it knowingly. “They said that they didn’t believe that he did it knowingly,” she told Today. Prout said she was frustrated by the jury’s decision not to convict Labrie on three aggravated rape charges. Labrie, now 20, was found not guilty of a felony rape charge, although a jury did find him guilty of misdemeanor sexual assault. Prout said on Today that she and her family had been willing to accept a letter from apology from Labrie before proceeding with the criminal charges. She said she became “frozen” out of fear when Labrie began to assault her. Prout gave emotional testimony during the August 2015 trial about the assault. Prosecutors said Labrie raped Prout in a tradition known as the “ senior salute”, a game of sexual conquest in a which a seniors try to have sex with underclassmen before graduation. Prout was a 15-year-old freshman at New Hampshire’s St Paul’s school when her fellow student, then senior Owen Labrie, asked her on a date. Prout, 17, spoke about the assault in an interview with NBC’s Today show that aired on Tuesday. The Guardian does not usually identify victims of sexual assault, but Prout has spoken publicly about her experience.
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