Ashley Burczak

2003

Ashley Burczak

Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER)

http://www.safercampus.org

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Civil and Human Rights

The Bold Idea:

Improving sexual assault prevention and response efforts on campuses by providing training and support for college students.

Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) provides organizing training and support to college and university students so that they can win improvements to their schools' sexual assault prevention and response activities. By offering students the necessary support and resources, confidence-building and leadership training, SAFER empowers student activists to rally the community and push school administrations to take action.

Through these efforts, students across the country can begin to build a larger movement that will have widespread effects on the perception and response to sexual violence on a societal level.

Biography:

Ashley Burczak is a 2003 Echoing Green Fellow and the founder of the organization Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER), a nonprofit organization devoted to improving campus sexual assault prevention and response by providing students with training in effective grassroots organizing tactics. Since founding SAFER Ashley served as the coordinator of the Violence Prevention Project at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and completed studies at the Union Theological Seminary. She currently works as a chaplain in Philadelphia.