Tiffany Reese

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.

Wow, like your graduating class?

She also really spoke very highly of y'all.

And I think that having y'all's support, it sounds like, has meant a lot to her and really helped her throughout this process.

And not everybody has that.

I'm very honored that I get to connect with y'all as well.

I'm curious what your guys' hopes were for her as she left for college.