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Katie Koestner, outspoken advocate for the prevention of sexual assault, will present a program about date-rape called “No/Yes” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in Lafayette College’s Colton Chapel.
Koestner, a certified peer educator and sexual-assault counselor, has spoken to hundreds of thousands of students in the United States and internationally. The talk, sponsored by the Association of Lafayette Women, is free and open to the public.
Koestner received national attention when she went public with her story after being sexually assaulted by a fellow student as a college freshman in 1990. She was featured on the cover of Time magazine in June 1991 and has been the subject of articles in national and regional newspapers and magazines. She has also appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Larry King Live, MTV, Entertainment Tonight, and dozens of other national, regional, and local news programs.
Her appearance on Capitol Hill with Congressman Jim Ramstad encouraged Congress, and later President Bush, to pass the Campus Sexual Assault Victim’s Bill of Rights into law in 1992. In 1993 she collaborated with HBO on the docudrama No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner Story.
She is currently writing a book called Without Consent, an autobiographical travelogue of four years of her presentations to colleges and high schools. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she holds degrees in public policy and women’s studies, magna cum laude, from William and Mary.