Q&A with Author Donna Freitas
"Schools are taking better measures to protect confidentiality and make the experience less intimidating. But it's difficult to understand exactly how hard it is to come forward unless you've been through it."
When Title IX researcher and lecturer Donna Freitas was herself a graduate student in the 1990s, she was stalked and harassed by a professor and priest—a teacher she had once thought would be her mentor and dissertation director. Eventually, as his behavior became increasingly obsessive and threatening, Freitas spoke up to the administration.
Now an expert on sexual consent, Freitas doesn't hesitate to assure targets of harassment that they aren't to blame, and now she has decided to speak out publicly about her own story. Her story is featured in an excerpt from her book, Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted
