Emma Grasso Levine

Background

About Emma Grasso Levine

Emma Grasso Levine is an organizer, advocate, and writer based in Washington, DC. As the Senior Manager of Title IX Policy and Programs at Advocates for Youth, Emma leads Know Your IX, a survivor- and youth-led project empowering students to end gender-based violence in their schools through policy advocacy and organizing. A leading voice on Title IX, Levine has trained thousands of students and advocates on how to organize to end gender violence and create survivor-centered policy change. She has provided her expertise on gender violence in schools, to governments, and to news outlets across the country, including The New York Times, NPR’s Morning Edition, The Washington Post, Associated Press, Politico, USA Today, The Hill, Mother Jones, Ms. Magazine, and ESPN.Emma is a graduate of NYU, where she double-majored in Social & Cultural Analysis and Dramatic Writing and focused her thesis on transformative justice and community-based solutions to sexual violence. At NYU, they organized with Students for Sexual Respect (SSR), an organization advocating for survivor-centered policies, reproductive justice, and students’ right to an education free of gender-based violence. As a leader of both SSR and the Governance Council of Minority and Marginalized Students, Emma successfully organized to create survivor-centered policy change, improve Title IX trainings and processes to be inclusive of LGBTQI+ students’ experiences, and provide free menstrual hygiene products to students.