Christina Beeler
Host: Juvenile and Children’s Advocacy Project
Sponsor: Latham & Watkins LLP
Elizabeth worked to end sexual harassment of students, with a focus on K-12 girls of color who are suspended or otherwise pushed out of school after reporting sexual violence.
Sexual harassment should never be the end of anyone’s education, yet more than one in five girls ages 14-18 are kissed or touched without their consent. And when students report sexual harassment to their schools, many are ignored or even punished (e.g., for engaging in “consensual” sex)—particularly if they are girls of color, pregnant or parenting students, LGBTQ students, and/or students with disabilities.
Title IX is a civil rights law that requires schools to address sexual harassment, but federal courts have created a liability standard that is extremely difficult to overcome. And now, the Department of Education has proposed Title IX rules that would allow—or even require—schools to ignore students who report sexual harassment and to apply unfair procedures that would prejudice and retraumatize survivors.
In the past two years, Elizabeth has:
Following her Fellowship, Elizabeth will remain at NWLC as Counsel. She will continue fighting for students’ Title IX rights through litigation, policy advocacy, and know-your-rights education.
Host: Juvenile and Children’s Advocacy Project
Sponsor: Latham & Watkins LLP
Host: Georgia Appleseed Center for Law & Justice
Sponsor: Anonymous
Host: Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Inc.
Sponsor: The Florida Bar Foundation
Host: Mississippi Center for Justice
Sponsor: Friends and Family of Philip M. Stern