On Friday, March 15th, Julia Strange, CASS’s Director of Programs and Policy, testified on behalf of CASS at the DC Council’s performance oversight hearing on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA). Julia addressed the agency’s handling of sexual harassment and assault on public transit, an issue that CASS first shed light on in February 2012 when […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This morning, WMATA unveiled its revamped web portal – www.wmata.com/harassment – for Metro-riders to report incidents of sexual harassment or assault. The updated portal includes greater options for users to enter details on incidents. More details below. The piece below is by Caroline Lukas is Media Relations Manager for the Washington Metropolitan Area […]
On Thursday, February 27th, CASS was honored to attend the Women’s Information Network’s (WIN) Young Women of Achievement Awards (YWA), in which two of its staff members — co-founder and Executive Director Chai Shenoy and Director of Programs and Policy, Julia Strange — were recognized for their achievements in the field of Service/Nonprofit Advocacy. According […]
On Tuesday (2/19), CASS teamed up with Holly Kearl of Stop Street Harassment (SSH) to meet with WMATA’s taskforce on sexual harassment. The meeting was to touch base with WMATA nearly a year after CASS worked with the agency to implement its first-ever anti-harassment campaign. On Wednesday, we posted SSH’s response to the meeting as told through SSH’s report […]
Note: We submitted the following letter to the editor to the Washington Post on January 25th. Our letter was not published, so we are publishing it here in full. The Post’s editorial, “The District’s Response to Rape Charges” (January 22, 2013) hailed Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)’s Chief Cathy Lanier for implementing recommendations by Human Rights […]