Today Zosia Sztykowski, Co-Executive Director of Collective Action for Safe Spaces and I met with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) at their headquarters in Washington, D.C. to talk about sexual harassment on the system. For three years, we’ve been working with them to see the implementation of an online reporting options, collating of reports on verbal harassment incidents (instead of only forms of harassment that rise to the level of a crime), employee training, and a PSA campaign. We’ve collaborated on a number of outreach days, too.
This meeting was in part a celebration of the second wave of ads (see an example on the right) and an opportunity to plan our outreach efforts for International Anti-Street Harassment Week/Sexual Assault Awareness Month. We also discussed other ways the system could do more around this issue. Stay tuned.
WMATA has been responsive to our suggestions and ideas and we are proud to work with them. We hope many other transit systems follow suit!
