Street harassment is a threat that most women face on a regular basis, yet the problem is rarely taken seriously. Too often, we are told it's a compliment, we invited it, men can't help it, and on and ...

In case you haven’t seen the video, here it is: Founder Emily May is an Ashoka Fellow. She describes her strategy for Hollaback at the end of this video. May says it’s part street activism and part ...

Every time a new rejection letter appeared in Emily May’s mailbox, she tried her hardest not to take it personally. She’d been convinced the cause she was rallying for–fighting street harassment–was ...

Jill Dimond started working on the Hollaback! app, which allows women to log and map incidents of street harassment by submitting their stories when they occur, while doing her Ph.D. work that looked ...

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"It's not about there being one right way," Hollaback! co-founder Emily May tells PEOPLE, stressing the "Five D's" to combat harassment: distract, delegate, delay, direct, document April is Sexual ...

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Emily May moved to New York City after college with the intent of working for social change. Initially, she focused on anti-poverty work. But it was her experience of street harassment that became the ...