This is a guest post from Annie E. Clark and was originally published last week on her blog. Clark is a founding member of the IX Network, a national collective of sexual assault survivors and allies working to improve safety and administrative accountability on college campuses. She supports black coffee, travels as often as possible, and blogs for the Huffington Post.

For those of you who might not be aware, the annual National Sexual Assault Conference (NSAC) is underway in Los Angeles, California today and will continue with inspiring speakers, exchanging of business cards, and sharing of stories for the rest of the week. Fourteen hundred advocates, activists, allies, and academics from all over the ...