Victims’ Voices Are Amplified

From the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School campaigning against gun violence to Christine Blasey Ford accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, and from 150 gymnasts who took the stand at USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s sentencing for sexual abuse to six women who testified at actor and comedian Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial, victims raised their voices in an attempt to transform the American justice system.^[]“March for Our Lives Highlights: Students Protesting Guns Say ‘Enough Is Enough,’” New York Times, March 24, 2018; Haley Sweetland Edwards, “How Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony Changed America,” Time, October 4, 2018; Carla Correa and Meghan Louttit, “More Than 160 Women Say Larry Nassar Sexually Abused Them. Here Are His Accusers In Their Own Words,” New York Times, January 24, 2018; and Graham Bowley and Joe Coscarelli, “Bill Cosby, Once a Model of Fatherhood, Is Sentenced to Prison,” New York Times, September 25, 2018.