Tiffany Reese
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Today we begin chapter one of our season with survivor Luna, whose real name is being protected for her privacy and safety.
Luna was a bright, empathetic first-year nursing student on the East Coast who was excited to begin the next chapter of her life when she began college fall of 2023.
She grew up in a small town, extremely close with her mom and dad, who describe her as a ray of sunshine and someone who brings warmth into every room she enters.
Luna chose her college because it was close to home, had a strong nursing program, and felt safe.
To her, it seemed like a place where she could make new friends, learn independence, and step into the adult life she had worked so hard for.
But just a few months into her freshman year, everything changed.
After what she thought would be a casual movie night with a trusted friend that other students described as well-liked and one of the girls, Luna found herself leaving his dorm room in shock, injured, assaulted, and trying to make sense of what had happened.
Luna followed every instruction given to her.
Report to the RA, seek medical care, participate in the university's Title IX process, trust the system.
But instead of finding safety, clarity, and accountability, Luna and her parents found themselves in a maze of inconsistent communication, confusing policies, long delays, and institutional betrayals that ultimately failed to protect her.
Their story is not an anomaly.
It is part of a national crisis.
And it raises questions that every student and parent sending a child to college deserve to ask.
What duty does a university have to its students?
Who does a Title IX office really serve?
How many young survivors are quietly forced out of their own education while their perpetrators remain?
And what would it take for these institutions to finally put student safety above their own reputation?
These stories are painful, infuriating, and powerful.