VALERIE SCARLETT Valerie Scarlett is a social rights activist from Buffalo, Wyoming. They’ve worked for the Matthew Shepard Foundation as a Youth Columnist, and they’re currently training with Crisis Text Line to be a Crisis Counselor. Most recently, Val was featured on MicMedia’s video promoting the importance of GLSEN’s Day of Silence. Valerie is passionate about

CHARLOTTE SIMPSON Charlotte Simpson is a senior at Ridgewood High School and a leader of her school’s Gay-Straight-Alliance. She led a movement to hang the pride flag in front of the school for pride month, making Ridgewood High School the first high school in the county to do so. She also led her club in

Shane Shananaquet Shane Shananaquet is a 16 year old Native American, transgender, gay male, living in a rural area of Southern Michigan. Shane lives in a single parent, low income home is a high school junior. His intersectioning identities aside, he is a regular teenager; he enjoys music, hanging out with his friends, choir, and

NEW YORK —  On Thursday, April 26, when the New York City Council Committee on Youth Services takes up a proposed initiative that would require the city to establish a hotline and mobile app for youth affected by bullying, Jason Cianciotto, executive director of the Tyler Clementi Foundation, will speak about the need for proactive

The Tyler Clementi Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending online and offline bullying in schools, workplaces, and faith communities, commends Facebook for its transparency in releasing its community standards to the general public in order to provide a more concrete view of how the company is working to end all forms of bullying and

We need your help to support a bipartisan bill in Maryland that is addressing cyberbullying head-on. Grace’s Law 2.0 has already passed unanimously in the Maryland Senate. There will be a hearing for the bill in the Maryland House of Delegates on Tuesday, March 27 at 1 pm and we wanted to invite you to attend.   The original

Today, First Lady Melania Trump is hosting a summit at the White House with Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat to discuss ways to combat cyberbullying and increase kindness online. In honor of the summit, we want the First Lady to know that Jane Clementi’s invitation to meet with with her — mom to mom —

Inspired by the play “12 Angry Men,” a group of Hickory High students took a stand against cyber bullying by presenting a theatrical production, “12 Teen Jurors,” to help educate both middle and high school students as well as adults. The one hour show played on Thursday, Nov. 16th at Northview Middle School. “Through education,

Join Alan Buie-King, Jane Clementi, Jason Cianciotto, along with entertainment by The Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus at a special event for the Tyler Clementi Foundation on March 10.

The Tyler Clementi Foundation commends the New York City Department of Education for its 2018 “Respect for All Week,” which promotes respect for diversity and engages students in meaningful lessons and activities that prevent bias-based harassment, intimidation, and bullying. We are grateful that our programs and resources are included in Respect for All Week’s “Day 1: Bullying 101” suggested curricula.