About
It’s On Us
Our Story
It’s On Us was founded in September 2014, as a public awareness campaign of the Obama-Biden Administration, following recommendations from the White House Task Force to Prevent Sexual Assault that noted the importance of calling everyone into the conversation on sexual assault prevention.
Since then, It’s On Us has grown into the nation’s largest nonprofit program dedicated to college sexual assault prevention, training a national network of student-led campus chapters to become peer-educators; developing suites of prevention education programs; and conducting and publishing research to expand the field of knowledge on violence prevention and inform our work.
Our Mission
It’s On Us is on a mission to build the movement to combat campus sexual assault by giving students of all identities, especially young men, the tools to address the cultural norms at the root of sexual harm. We do this by activating the largest student organizing program of its kind in grassroots awareness and prevention education programs.
Our Vision
It’s On Us envisions a world in which no student graduates college having experienced sexual violence because we have created a culture of prevention within higher education.
ON-CAMPUS ORGANIZING
Our on-campus organizing work is grounded in a peer-to-peer sexual assault prevention education model that empowers students to teach one another sexual assault awareness and consent education, bystander intervention, and survivor support. It On Us currently supports 250+ registered campus chapters and affiliate programs nationwide. Student members of our chapters and affiliates are trained by It’s On Us through in-person and webinar events to implement our free-to-use educational tools on their campuses, reaching tens of thousands of students annually with critical sexual assault prevention lessons.
Back To School:
It’s On Us Chapters hold educational events during orientation with first-year and transfer students
Fall Week of Action:
It’s On Us Chapters nationwide rally for one week during Domestic Violence Awareness Month (October) to hold campus-wide events to educate their peers on dating and domestic violence
Spring Week of Action:
It’s On Us Chapters nationwide rally for one week during Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April) to hold campus-wide events to educate their peers on sexual assault
Our chapters educate between 40,000 and 60,000 students nationwide during the Fall and Spring Weeks of Action.
Our Team
TRACEY E. VITCHERS
Executive Director She/Her/Hers @traceyevitchers
DR. M. COLLEEN MCDANIEL
Director of Research & Program Development
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BLAKE KITTERMAN
Director of Campus Organizing & Training
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KYLE RICHARD
Associate Director of Men’s Engagement & Special Projects
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IAN MICHELSON
Virtual Peer Educator
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