Emily May Biography

Emily May is an award-winning leader in the anti-street-harassment movement. In 2005 at the age of 24 she co-founded Hollaback! in New York City and in 2010 she became its first full-time executive director. Hollaback!’s mission is to give women and LGBTQ folks an empowered response to street harassment and ultimately to end it.
Emily brings a fresh perspective to social action in the digital age. She believes the internet provides opportunities to tackle discrimination by transforming discrimination from a lonely experience into a piece of a larger public movement. Hollaback! gives women girls and LGBTQ individuals an empowered real-time response to street harassment that will build public awareness on why street harassment matters and how it hurts. Emily who hold a Master’s Degree in Social Policy from the London School of Economics argues that a crowd-sourced movement is the key to changing policy and minds and ultimately creating a world where everyone has the right to feel safe and confident. For a sample flier used for college events click here.
Prior to running Hollaback! Emily worked in the anti-poverty world as a case manager political action coordinator director of development and most recently a one-woman research and development team. She has also worked on four political campaigns.

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