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When Dunn was a freshman in college, two crew teammates raped her. She responded by reporting it to campus authorities. “I did what a lot of survivors do; I believed in the systems,” she recalls. “I thought if I reported it to the police and to my campus, then everything would work out and I would receive justice.”
But the state prosecutor chose not to pursue charges, and her university failed to punish the alleged perpetrators. Then, when Dunn turned to the US Department of Education to file a Title IX complaint, it ended up upholding the university’s actions. “I learned then what many survivors are learning now, every single day: that the system doesn’t necessarily serve the most vulnerable — those who are victimized,” she says.
Now Dunn is a victim’s rights attorney and DC managing counsel at The Fierberg National Law Group in Washington, DC (and a TED Fellow). In 2014, Dunn founded the national nonprofit SurvJustice, which offers legal assistance to campus sexual assault survivors, advocates for better victims’ rights policies, and trains institutions to prevent and respond to sexual violence. In January 2018, SurvJustice sued Education Secretary Betsy Devos, the US Department of Education, and Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Candice Jackson for its rollback of Title IX protections for sexual misconduct survivors.
Dunn believes US law needs to go further to protect victims of sexual violence. She is pushing for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a proposed constitutional amendment which reads, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Back in the 1970s, the ERA was supported by both major political parties, as well as president Nixon (and later presidents Ford and Carter). In 1972, the House of Representatives and the Senate approved the ERA.