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Shale Norris

Co-founder and Founding Executive Director of SafeBAE, a national survivor-founded, youth-led nonprofit preventing sexual violence among teens.

Sep 9, 2026

11:55
But how did tell us like how the full story of how the organization was founded?
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Yeah.
12:04
So the staff infrastructure at V-Day was disbanding.
12:08
The play was 20 years old at the time.
12:10
So because of the momentum of what I'd seen on college campuses, right, this shift to Title IX awareness and students really advocating for their rights and looking under the rug for what had been shoved under there for many, many years – And I think we began to see this transformation on college campuses.
12:32
Don't get me wrong, still a lot of work to do, but it's night and day from where it was.
12:37
And when we looked at, you know, when I sort of stood back and looked at where V-Day stood in that and how that came about, I really wanted to look at middle school and high school because it just was obvious.

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