We Believe You, Annie E. Clark
We Believe You, Annie E. Clark
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We Believe You
Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out

Author: Annie E. Clark, Andrea L. Pino

Narrator: Annie E. Clark, Andrea L. Pino, Katie Schorr, Eileen Stevens, Samia Mounts, Josh Hurley

Unabridged: 8 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/12/2016


Synopsis

From young activists at the forefront of the movement to end sexual assault on college campuses, a collection of survivor stories that will connect with students and inform and inspire us all

Across the U.S. student activists are exposing a pervasive cover-up of sexual assault on college campuses. Every day more survivors come forward. But other survivors choose not to. We Believe You elevates the stories the headlines about this issue have been missing--more than 30 experiences of trauma, healing and everyday activism, representing a diversity of races, economic and family backgrounds, gender identities, immigration statuses, interests, capacities and loves.

More than 1 in 5 women and 5 percent of men are sexually assaulted at college, a shocking status quo that might have stayed largely hidden and unaddressed but for the two authors of We Believe You. In 2013, Annie E. Clark and Andrea L. Pino, then 23 and 20, building on the work of earlier activists, outed themselves as assault survivors and filed a federal complaint against the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) for mishandling such crimes; within a month, the U.S. government began to investigate UNC. Within a year, dozens of colleges were under federal investigation.

But Clark and Pino rightly see themselves as two among many. Students from every kind of college and university—large and small, public and private, highly selective and less so—are sounding alarms and staking claims to justice by filing complaints, by pressing charges, and by simply living beyond the effects of assault and the betrayals of their schools.

About Annie E. Clark

Annie E. Clark and Andrea L. Pino are co-founders of End Rape On Campus, an organization dedicated to survivor support, education and policy reform. They attended The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where they both majored in Political Science. They were two of those who filed Title IX and Clery complaints against UNC. Their stories are prominently featured in the documentary The Hunting Ground, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. We Believe You is their first book.

About Andrea L. Pino

Annie E. Clark and Andrea L. Pino are co-founders of End Rape On Campus, an organization dedicated to survivor support, education and policy reform. They attended The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where they both majored in Political Science. They were two of those who filed Title IX and Clery complaints against UNC. Their stories are prominently featured in the documentary The Hunting Ground, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. We Believe You is their first book.

About Katie Schorr

Katie Schorr's audiobook credits include narrating the novels in Alyson Noel's bestselling Immortals series – Evermore, Blue Moon, Shadowland, and Dark Flame.  Of her work on the series, AudioFile magazine has said, "Narrator Katie Schorr has a wonderfully raspy, youthful voice, which she puts to good effect on the cast of teenaged characters."Schorr’s one-woman show, Take Me. Seriously., ran for six months at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and she performs throughout New York in new works at The Ensemble Studio Theater and Ars Nova, among other theaters.  She has appeared on VH1's Best Week Ever and co-stars in the web series Head in the Oven with Saturday Night Live actor Bill Hader. She is the co-creator of Yoga Partners: A Web Series.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melania 🍒 on April 29, 2019

3,85/5 It’s always uncomfortable to rate something as personal as We Believe You is. Just to be clear I don’t want to diminish in any way the importance of this book. Public attention in this directions is long overdue. I’ll admit it’s hard to wrap my head around how some people are still confused ab......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on July 05, 2016

Wow. This book needs to be read by everyone. I knew that rape happened on campuses, especially with the whole Brock Turner thing going on. And I knew it probably happened all the time, but I honestly thought it was dealt with in the way that rape is dealt with NOT on campus. But apparently it's NOT.......more

Goodreads review by Kris (My Novelesque Life) on June 03, 2016

It is terrifying and sickening how many sexual assaults are being hidden by post secondary institutions. They are not only misreporting sexual assault stats, but they are discouraging women to not pursue justice AND treating them like offenders and essentially assaulting them again. While I was atte......more

Goodreads review by John on November 06, 2016

"As a program developer, activist, author, professor, and nonprofit President, I've been educating college students about sexual violence since 1993. I've read legions of books on the topic. None is able to match the depth of so many life narratives in such a gripping way as We Believe You. At first......more

Goodreads review by Carina on April 24, 2016

"We Believe You" chronicles the experiences of 36 victims of sexual assault on and around college campuses. The book is structured so that you learn about the student (both male and female) before and after the assault. It also includes a list of college campuses where sexual violence has been repor......more