Emily J. Renda
Undergraduate student, College of Arts & Sciences Chair, Sexual Assault Leadership Council University of Virginia
Emily Renda is a fourth-year student in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences. She is in the Sociology Distinguished Major Program, and recently completed her thesis, which focuses on the challenges related to sexual assault adjudication on college campuses. Renda is chair of the Sexual Assault Leadership Council at the University and serves on the executive board for the sexual assault peer educator group One Less. She has worked all four years with Take Back the Night, and she interns with the University’s Women's Center Sexual and Domestic Violence Services. She recently served on the Inter-Sorority Council as Women's Concerns Chair, and participated in the Jefferson Public Citizens grant-based research program. In December, she was selected, through a highly competitive process, to be a special intern in President Sullivan’s office for the remainder of the academic year.
No credibility.
I think it's quite likely the same person and story. Their connection is referenced in the story. Wouldn't be surprised if Renda is where Erdely got the contact.
From the Rolling Stone article:
"'When did it happen to you?' Emily Renda asked Jackie as they sat for coffee at the outdoor Downtown Mall in the fall of 2013…"
What is most interesting about this testimony, in the wake of the Rolling Story implosion, is the matter of fact presentation of the gang rape as “fact.” With far-reaching decisions supposedly to be made by Congress based on that “fact.”
It’s also interesting that Ms. Renda has apparently built her entire life around her claimed (and quite possibly real) rape. It obviously dominates her student and social life, even her thesis. Does anybody want to be that when she leaves college she will be hired in some capacity dealing with rape?
How often do mugging victims or people who are defrauded build the rest of their lives around their victimization?
For the love of Pete ladies. If you are raped call the freakin COPS!
Actually the above story has its related similar activity of being multiply raped of your intellectual property by a corporation, then discharged as a disloyal employee when your virginity in this area is no longer saleable, and you have been coached to think your lack of allegiance was your fault.
So she is the Hillary of tomorrow.
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/02/u-va-kicks-off-national-conference-on-sexual-misconduct