Publisher Description
From young activists at the forefront of the movement to end sexual assault on college campuses, a collection of survivor stories that will connect with students and inform and inspire us all
Across the U.S. student activists are exposing a pervasive cover-up of sexual assault on college campuses. Every day more survivors come forward. But other survivors choose not to. We Believe You elevates the stories the headlines about this issue have been missing--more than 30 experiences of trauma, healing and everyday activism, representing a diversity of races, economic and family backgrounds, gender identities, immigration statuses, interests, capacities and loves.
More than 1 in 5 women and 5 percent of men are sexually assaulted at college, a shocking status quo that might have stayed largely hidden and unaddressed but for the two authors of We Believe You. In 2013, Annie E. Clark and Andrea L. Pino, then 23 and 20, building on the work of earlier activists, outed themselves as assault survivors and filed a federal complaint against the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) for mishandling such crimes; within a month, the U.S. government began to investigate UNC. Within a year, dozens of colleges were under federal investigation.
But Clark and Pino rightly see themselves as two among many. Students from every kind of college and university—large and small, public and private, highly selective and less so—are sounding alarms and staking claims to justice by filing complaints, by pressing charges, and by simply living beyond the effects of assault and the betrayals of their schools.
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About the Narrators
Eileen Stevens is a voice-over actress living and working in New York City whose voice can be heard on cartoons, promos, programs for English-language learners, and audiobooks. She has voiced Iris on Pokémon. An Earphones Award–winning narrator, she has also directed and produced audiobooks for over six years.
Josh Hurley is an actor, improviser, narrator, and writer. His audiobook credits include Saving Lucas Biggs and Where Things Come Back. He has won two AudioFile Earphones Awards and lives in New York.
Katie Schorr is an actor and
writer in New York. Her one-woman show, Take
Me. Seriously, ran for six months at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater,
and she performs throughout New York in new works at the Ensemble Studio
Theatre and Ars Nova, among other theaters. She has appeared on VH1’s Best Week Ever and costars in the web
series Head in the Oven with Saturday Night Live actor Bill Hader.
Her audiobook credits include narrating the novels in Alyson Noel’s bestselling
Immortals series. Of her work on the series, AudioFile magazine has said, “Narrator Katie Schorr has a
wonderfully raspy, youthful voice, which she puts to good effect on the cast of
teenage characters.”
Samia Mounts is an Earphones Award–winning narrator. Born in Germany, raised in Korea, and educated at the University of Arizona and the Boston Conservatory, she fronts and writes music for her electropop music project, Samia XI, records voice-overs for commercials, animations, and video games, and is the author of young adult novel, Frunk the Skunk.