Home / BlogSafeBAE Joins HopSkipDrive’s Safety Advisory Board SafeBAE brings expert youth safety insights to HopSkipDrive’s advisory board, shaping safer rides for students nationwide. Partnering for Safer Journeys: SafeBAE Joins HopSkipDrive’s Safety Advisory Board This week, our Executive Director, Shael Norris, traveled to Los Angeles to represent SafeBAE at HopSkipDrive’s Safety Advisory Board meeting. HopSkipDrive…
Home / BlogConsent Education Wins in Indiana After Students Speak Out After protests from students, teachers, and parents — Indiana restores consent education to school bill. What Happened in Indiana Earlier this year, Indiana lawmakers quietly removed consent education from a proposed sex ed bill — a decision that sparked immediate outrage. Parents, educators, advocates,…
Home / BlogApollo’s Story: What Impact Can Youth-Led Consent Education Really Have? Learn how SafeBAE Summer Activist Institute alum Apollo became a powerful youth voice for consent education and survivor advocacy. Who Is Apollo? Apollo is a student leader from Southeast Ohio with a passion for changing the way we talk about sexual violence. Their…
Home / BlogWhy Is Consent Education Being Removed from Sex Ed Laws? Indiana lawmakers removed consent education from state sex ed laws. Here’s why that’s dangerous — and how SafeBAE is working nationally to protect students. In April 2025, Indiana lawmakers quietly made a dangerous change to the state’s sex education legislation: they removed the…
Home / BlogA Future Without the Department of Education: What We Must Do Now Without federal leadership, protecting students falls to all of us—parents, educators, and students alike. Written By Founding Executive Director – Shael Norris Protecting Students in a Post-Department of Education Era As we begin to process the possibility of a country without the…
Home / BlogSedona Prince Goes Undrafted in 2025 WNBA Draft After Year of Assault Allegations No official reason given. But survivors already know. No One Is Above Accountability This week, 6’7″ TCU standout Sedona Prince went undrafted in the 2025 WNBA Draft. For many, it was a shock—she’d been projected as a late first- or…
Home / BlogKicking Off Our Whole-School Approach with Alliance Public Schools in Los Angeles Prevention doesn’t happen in a single lesson. That’s why we’re staying. A Week of Momentum in Los Angeles This week, we had the chance to do something we love most—show up for students, in person, and spark real conversations about preventing…
Home / BlogA Rape Game Was Live on Steam. That Should Tell Us Everything. Zerat Games created a rape and incest simulator—and Steam, one of the world’s largest gaming platforms, let it go live. When a Video Game Glorifies Sexual Violence Last week, a game called No Mercy quietly appeared on the gaming platform Steam—and…
Home / BlogSummer Activist Institute Alumni Spotlight: Hector’s Journey from Student to Leader From attending the Institute to mentoring others, Hector shows what youth leadership really looks like. From Spark to Sparkle – How Hector Found SafeBAE It started with a conference. Hector, a student leader already engaged in making change at school, was at…