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Tracey Vitchers

Executive Director
It's On Us

Tracey E. Vitchers is a non-profit executive and nationally recognized expert on sexual violence prevention and survivor advocacy.

Tracey currently serves as the Executive Director of It’s On Us, a nonprofit founded in 2014 as an initiative of the Obama-Biden Administration to combat campus sexual assault through peer-to-peer prevention education programs and activating the largest student organizing program of its kind. It’s On Us is the only national sexual assault prevention nonprofit in the United States to combine grassroots organizing and prevention education with large-scale culture change campaigns through partnerships with creative agencies, influencers, PR and communications firms, and media. Tracey joined It’s On Us in November of 2017 following its transition out of the White House to Civic Nation.

Tracey is a currently an active member of the Advisory Boards of Culture Of Respect, The Every Voice Coalition, and SafeBAE.

Tracey previously served on the Governing Boards of End Rape On Campus, Safe Haven of Pike County, and SAFER. She also previously organized with Know Your IX.

Tracey was named 2014 Women’s Media Center Progressive Women’s Voices Fellow in September 2014.

In May 2011 Tracey founded the national youth service-learning program The 9/12 Generation Project and acted as Director until the fall of 2013.

Tracey holds a BA from Williams College in Women’s & Gender Studies and English Literature and a MA from Utrecht University in Comparative Women’s Studies in Culture & Politics.

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Events featuring Tracey Vitchers
Events featuring Tracey Vitchers