Katie Koestner is the first woman in the United States to speak out nationally and publicly as the victim of campus “date” rape at age 18. Katie has been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine, The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC Nightly News, CNBC Talk Live, CNN, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Later Today, MSNBC, Entertainment Tonight and other national television programs. Katie is the subject of an HBO movie and has lectured for over 5000 schools and organizations in North America and around the world.

Shamus Khan, PhD, is a Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He was a Co-Principal Investigator of SHIFT, a multi-year study of sexual health and sexual violence at Columbia University. His more than ninety articles, essays, and book focus on culture, inequality, gender, and elites. He writes regularly for the popular press such as the New Yorker, the New York Times, Washington Post, and has served as a columnist for Time Magazine. In 2016 he was awarded Columbia University’s highest teaching honor, the Presidential Teaching Award, and in 2018 he was awarded the Hans L. Zetterberg Prize from Uppsala University in Sweden as “the best sociologist under 40.”

Cathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA. A poet, painter and teacher, she created the We the Poets program for children. Her poems appear in journals such as Apiary, Baltimore Review, Cagibi, East Coast Ink, North of Oxford, One Art Journal, Passager, Philadelphia Stories, Rockvale Review, Rogue Agent and Toho Journal. She authored Camera Obscura (Moonstone Press, 2017), Etching the Ghost (Atmosphere Press, 2021) and Sparks and Disperses (Cornerstone Press, forthcoming 2021.) Her artwork is on view at Cerulean Arts Gallery.

Jeanine Talento, E-RYT 500, is a Trauma-Informed Educator, Yoga Teacher Trainer, Emotional Freedom Facilitator & passionate writer. The foundation of Jeanine’s work is that liberation from trauma requires a collaboration of compassionate inquiry, somatic curiosity, releasing shame, and recognizing our limiting core beliefs all through creating a safe space where folks can explore their inner landscape with patience and permission. Jeanine teaches weekly group classes at Gather Encinitas and Los Gatos Therapy Center. She leads Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Trainings through School Yoga Institute.

Survivor of date rape at 42. Mom of one. Axe throwing coach and long time non profit fiscal person. Currently empty nesting and healing from the trauma inflicted for simply trying to date again later in life.

Antuan is a New York City-based Advocate, Author, TEDx Speaker, and Actor. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, he uses his voice to help those who have not found their own. Author of Becoming Magic: A Path of Personal Reconstruction and affectionately known as Magic, Antuan’s mission as a Soldier of Love is to empower and encourage others to live a whole life. As a professional actor of 20+ years, Antuan has worked as a Universal Swing for the 11x Tony/Pulitzer/Grammy Award winning “Hamilton.” Other career highlights include the 4x Tony Award-winning In the Heights and six years with the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.