Executive Director
Shael Norris is the Founding Executive Director of SafeBAE, the only US national survivor-founded, youth-led organization working to prevent sexual violence among teens. She has dedicated her career to ending sexual violence and empowering youth activism. As a young activist, she was a founding staffer of V-Day, overseeing all benefit productions of "The Vagina Monologues"(1999-2016) and the creation of the "Campus Accountability Project" calling for improved prevention/response on college campuses. It was this higher education prevention work, that led her to co-creating SafeBAE (2015), in partnership with Daisy and Charlie Coleman, Ella Fairon, and Jada Smith. Her work will be published in the 2024 Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.
In this Pre-Thanksgiving Super episode, I get to interview three dynamic leaders, highlighting the outstanding work they are doing in the community: Charles DeBow, III, President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Comme...