Originally published on change.org By Maria Ruiz We the people would like to petition that Judge Aaron Persky be removed from his Judicial position for the lenient sentence he allowed in the Brock Turner rape case. Despite a unanimous guilty verdict, three felony convictions, the objections of 250 Stanford students,…
Originally published on change.org Stanford Association of Students for Sexual Assault Prevention On January 18, 2015, a woman was brutally assaulted on Stanford’s campus during a Kappa Alpha Fraternity party. Brock Allen Turner, who at the time was a Stanford freshman, was found thrusting himself into an unconscious woman on…
Originally published on Everyday Feminism Magazine on June 4, 2016 by Jon Greenberg and re-published here with their permission. We cannot make good decisions from a distance,” says Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization dedicated to fixing our broken criminal justice…
From a happy-go-lucky musical theatre teen, to surviving sexual abuse, a coma, six years without food or drink, and 27 surgeries, it’s been a very long, detoured journey, and it still isn’t over yet. But what makes the journey meaningful, and ultimately rewarding, is the ability to share, and know…
