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.

CarrieAnn Mausolf is a 33-year old woman with a love for art and her 7-year old cat, Jude. She recently wrote a book about her experiences living with a dissociative disorder that was caused by childhood sexual abuse. She currently works for a company that provides housing and shelter to individuals experiencing homelessness. In her free time, she likes to feed the wildlife in her backyard, talk to her little nieces and watch documentaries.

Judith Kunst is a poet, essayist, and grant writer in Evansville, Indiana. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic, other journals and anthologies, and in her book The Way Through, published in 2020 by Mayapple Press. She is also the author of The Burning Word: A Christian Encounter with Jewish Midrash, and she holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. During the work week, Judith can be found writing grants for the award-winning school-based social work programs of Youth First, Inc., and on nights and weekends she cheers on her three sons’ athletic endeavors, walks with her dog, or paints with her beloved watercolors.

Eliko Ozeki works at the intersection of mindfulness, education and project management. She’s taught in public and independent schools in Tokyo, New York City, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles. Eliko integrates sustainability and social emotional learning skills in her teaching, incorporating mindfulness activities in a variety of ways to give students access from many entry points.
Her clients build awareness and kindness towards self and others through their work together. She is a Mindful Schools Certified Mindfulness Instructor, a Unified Mindfulness Level 2 Coach, and a Cultivating Emotional Balance Teacher, training under Eve Ekman Ph.D and Ryan Redman. Eliko lives in Los Angeles with her son, enjoys swimming, making ceramics, and building her IMPROV skills.

Michelle works as the Violence Prevention Program Manager at the University of Wyoming. She has a Masters Degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education and has held a variety of roles in Student Affairs, with Violence Prevention being her favorite. She loves her dogs, traveling with her partner, hiking and cooking!

Claire Kaplan joined the anti-violence movement in 1983 in LA. She served as Program Director of Gender Violence and Social Change at UVA’s Women’s Center from 1991-2020. As an Advanced Credentialed Victim Intervention Specialist, she is a confidential advocate, and promotes trauma-informed programs through her teaching and writing. In 2007 she founded the Men’s Leadership Project, a mentoring program that promotes pro-social masculinities in adolescents and their undergraduate mentors. Kaplan is a faculty member of UVA’s Dept. of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and is writing a book for parents on sexual misconduct in higher education. Claire also co-hosts and is associate producer of the “Dear Katie: Survivor Stories” podcast with Katie Koestner.