“It was really wonderful to get the opportunity to have President Sullivan’s feedback and input on our research through the semester, and to get a sense from her about the personal and institutional challenges of serving as a president,” said Renda, who also participated in the president’s national conference in February, “Dialogue at UVA: Sexual Misconduct Among College Students.”
Emily Renda, U.Va.’s project coordinator for sexual misconduct, policy and prevention, and a member of the governor’s Task Force on Combating Campus Sexual Violence, said she didn’t question Jackie’s credibility because that wasn’t her role. Renda knows Jackie and also was interviewed for the Rolling Stone article.
“Rolling Stone played adjudicator, investigator and advocate - and did a slipshod job at that,” added Renda, a May graduate who said she was raped her freshman year at the school. “As a result Jackie suffers, the young men in Phi Kappa Psi suffered, and survivors everywhere can unfairly be called into question.”
The gall, she told the same story before congress months earlier.