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This time two years ago, our Co-Founder & Executive Director, Chai Shenoy, testified at a DC Council hearing about the overwhelming need to prevent sexual harassment & assault on the DC public transportation system. CASS’s testimony stemmed from hundreds of incidents of public sexual harassment that CASS had collected over the years — at least 30 percent of which had taken place on or […]

  Location: DC Metro; red line to Forest Glen Time: Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) I walked into the elevator and a man waited to (approx. 45-50) follow me in. He looked me up and down three times before pushing the button to go down to the train level. I hurriedly walked to a different end of the […]

Location: Circulator stop at K St. NW and 12th St. NW DC (Mt. Vernon/Convention Center) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) This driver pulled up next to me while I stood at a bus stop, with the passenger side window rolled down, and had his penis out and was masturbating, and leaned over to further get my attention. He only pulled […]

Remember back in 2012 when we testified in front of the DC City Council for improvements in the way the Washington Metropolitan Transportation Authority (WMATA) handles sexual harassment? Well, one of the most-anticipated results of our advocacy with WMATA is coming up early in the new year. Starting in 2014, all 3,000 of WMATA’s frontline employees […]

Location: Yellow Line, DC Metro Time: Late Night (12am-5am) I was on the Metro last night, coming home by myself. I was seated next to a group of three young men, who were talking to a young woman. Although their attentions would have made me uncomfortable, she appeared to be flirting back, so I didn’t say anything. […]