Staff - Respect My Red

Katie Koestner

Development Director

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Katie Koestner is a national expert on student safety and healthy relationships and the first woman in the US to speak out nationally and publicly as the victim of campus “date” rape at age 18.
Appeared on the cover of TIME Magazine on June 3, 1991.
Featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC Nightly News, CNBC Talk Live, CNN, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Later Today, MSNBC, Entertainment Tonight and over 200 other national television programs.
Subject of an HBO movie.
Has lectured at over 5000 schools and organizations in North America and around the world. Her audiences have included the incoming classes at MIT, Brown University, West Point, the US Naval Academy, Amherst College, Williams College, the top 200 officers of the Department of Defense, and the American Association of School Administrators.
Katie is the architect of a sexual misconduct response system, model school sexual misconduct policies and the Respect My Red campaign.
Katie’s energy and enthusiasm spur audiences from age 8 to 80 to positive action around the globe.

National Diversity & Leadership Trainer

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Graduate from Baylor University and holds a Master’s in Exercise Physiology.
Has over 15 years of experience in collegiate athletics and currently oversees the Student-Athlete Development department at Baylor University.
Serves as a Green Dot Coordinator at Baylor University.
Served on the board for the National Association of Academic Athletic Advisors.
Served as the Director of the Baylor Leadership Academy.
2011 graduate of the NCAA Leadership Institute.
Facilitated the NCAA Career in Sports Forum, Leadership Forum, and NFL Prep 100.

Curriculum Director

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Graduate from Mount St. Mary’s University and holds a Master’s of Science from Shippensburg University.
Formed a Women’s Empowerment program at Mount St. Mary’s University and was awarded the Third Century Scholar Award in 2009.
Serves as the Program Director for the Take Back The Night Foundation, overseeing national campaigns and assisting event holders to organize walks, runs, vigils and other programming components.
Served as the Conference Coordinator for The International Summit to End Sexual Violence in 2016.
Awarded a Certificate of Advocacy from the United States Department of Veteran Affairs in 2016.

Director of Men’s Involvement

Pronouns: he/him/his

Graduate from University of Virginia and holds a Master’s in Education from Harvard.
Began work in sexual violence prevention as a peer educator at UVA, and was awarded the Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award from UVA
Identified by Ebony Magazine as “super man” because of commitment to activism focused on fighting intimate violence.
Served as a Prevention Specialist at Harvard and helped to implement the University’s violence prevention policies.
Work has been featured in Huffington Post, Ebony Magazine, and VoiceMale.
Recipient of the Men of Vision Award, the 2000 Gilbert J. Sullivan Award, the 2001 Gregory Raven Batipps Scholarship, and the Association of Black Harvard Women’s 2007 “Strivers in the Community” Panel Position.

Inclusivity Director

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Graduate from St. Norbert College and holds a Master of Arts from Stony Brook Univeristy.
Started working with and advocating for diverse populations as a graduate student at Stony Brook University.
Continues advocacy through being an active member of the National Academic Advising Association and presenting for the National Association of Student Affairs.
Awarded “Outstanding Student Organization Advisor of the Year for their work with Colleges Against Cancer at Carthage College.
Empowers others to reflect on their leadership styles in terms of their advocacy & allyhood to diverse communities and inspires them to step up and take action.
Distinct capacity to create lasting, meaningful connections with wide audiences including students, faculty, staff, and parents.

Events Coordinator

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Nyk Robertson grew up in Kansas as a young queer person struggling to reconcile family, religion, queerness and gender identity in small town America.
Holds a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in poetry and a Master’s in Gender Culture Studies.
Most recently served as Swarthmore College’s Inclusivity and Diversity Director and is now pursing their Doctorate in Kansas.
Expertise in working with educational institutions to assess services and support for Asian American, LatinX, Multiracial, Native American, Queer (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender), low-income, and international students.
Presents about the ways in which language constructs a subjectivity for gender non-binary folx and helps others understand diverse perspectives on sexual violence and discrimination.
Lauded for their sincerity and authenticity as an educator and ability to build networks and continuing dialogue past the program and day of training.

Alina Aslanova

Moscow, Russia

Go RMR. Make Respect the Standard, not the Exception.