These wrongs will keep happening until we stop treating them as single incidents, start seeing the systemic pattern, and encourage those rare organizations that have chosen correctly.

All this to say: state institutions have always had the option to choose better. Except the rare exception, they consistently choose wrong.

But they didn't have to tell me their policy change. They didn’t have to update me. They gave me more than the institution that still actively benefits from my work and achievements.

They chose correctly out of ethics, and I'm sure a but of a PR concern (bad look to fund grad students suspended for misconduct).

And I should add, I was not a member to that org during or before the Title IX investigation. I was not a party they had to care about at all.

So small. But it literally moved me from being traumatized by their logo, to volunteering my time as a professional for them.

MONTHS LATER they emailed me their new policy, that required funding recipients disclose misconduct findings at work/school (the list included sexual misconduct). This is what I had recommended in my public statements.

The org found out about me, due to statements I made publicly, statements neither that named the org or assailant. But, small world. Then... they reached out to me privately. Said they were reviewing policies.

In our Title IX case, my assailant utilized photos taken for social media by/for this org as evidence of his value to our campus community.

They heavily utilized his image in advertising, social media, etc, to my trauma. I couldn't apply to this org for funding, knowing it would require me to attend events with him. This was also a major funder/network in both our fields.

An organization that funded my assailant (using taxpayer money) was HORRIFIED to find out they were funding him and having him speak at events WHILE SUSPENDED FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT

So many administrators think doing *anything* wont matter. But I have a counter factual:

Or the attitude of admin that my trauma was "unfixable" so "why ruin his life" (an attitude I intuited the same year Bedera was conducting her research, but couldn't validate), I might've behaved differently

I searched for such research when deciding to report (didn't exist at the time), but had I known about the strategy of "running out the clock"

Honestly, a tad irate it's not. Do yourself a favor, watch Irish cinematic masterpiece Grabbers this spooky season. Tá fáilte romhat in advance

"So much of what I found was that universities were violating their own policies constantly, doing a completely different process than what they told students they would do or what federal regulation required."

New Publication: An individual-based model of basking sharks in Ireland! This paper has been a long time in the making, and I'm so proud to finally share it with the world!