EducateUS & Jaclyn Friedman: The Importance of Comprehensive Sex Ed

Jaclyn Friedman is the Founder and Executive Director of EducateUS, where she’s building a movement for universal sex education. A lifelong activist, advocate and organizer. Friedman’s work globally popularized the affirmative consent standard of sexual consent. Her first book, Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, was one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 100 Books of 2009, and has inspired new laws in five U.S. states, as well as policies on countless campuses across the country and the world. She also spearheaded the legendary #FBrape campaign, which forced Facebook to address and exclude content that promotes or trivializes violence against women under their hate speech policy.

Org summary: EducateUS is building a movement of voters laser-focused on advancing sex education across the country. We believe that universal sex education can change the world. Our ultimate goal is to bring about a complete transformation of K-12 public sex education in the United States, in order to foster a new generation of Americans who are secure in their own bodily sovereignty, recognize and respect that sovereignty in everyone else regardless of race, place, creed, class or gender, know all the essential facts about how bodies work, and are fully prepared to build loving relationships with themselves and others.