EMILY BACH
Emily is a researcher and organizer based in Oakland. Her work focuses on restorative responses to sexual violence.
Currently,
Emily studies restorative responses to youth sexual violence. Following a long line of feminist organizers, their work argues that consent education is a crucial practice for realizing leftist visions of community sovereignity. In turn, she focuses on how communities can develop consent education programs outside of state-based avenues, particularly among young people. Their research was endowed by the Laidlaw Foundation, and they're currently working under CDC-RFA-CE-24-0068.
Organizing
National Student Engagement Organizer
Board of Directors
Co-Founder
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Previously, Emily worked on education programming at the United Nations, NASA, About Face, Active Minds, and Student Voice.
Stories of Consent
Emily is the Co-Founder of Stories of Consent, a non-profit organization devoted to community-based consent education through storytelling.
Supporting student-powered, student-led consent education in 45 states.
Sharing real, personal stories about consent from 9 countries (and counting).
Educating over 400,000 people on how consent looks and feels.
Recognition
Notable Awards and Fellowships
Vital Voices Visionary Fellow (Vital Voices, Estee Lauder Emerging Leaders Fund) • Youth Social Innovator of 2023 (The Oak and Tides Foundation, LookUp) • International Social Innovation Fellowship (U.S. Embassy) • Future Women's Leader (Supermajority) • Gold Award for Youth Organizing (Funder's Collective for Youth Organizing) • Director's Cohort (Athena Center) • Laidlaw Research Fellowship (The Laidlaw Foundation) • Invited Fellow (University of California, Irvine) • Tow Research Presentation Grant (Tow Foundation) • Gold Distinction for Research (NASA)
Notable Speaking
United Nations Day of the Girl Summit • Changemaker's Festival • SafeBAE Youth Activist Institute • Women's March: Reclaim the Court • Youth Voices Against Violence • Feminist Research for Political Action • Richard Mackesey Symposium • Johns Hopkins University • Tufts University • Barnard College • Columbia University • University of Maryland • Australian Feminist Research Collective • University of California, Irvine