Andrea Pino
American writer, women's rights activist, and digital strategy and policy advisor (born 1992)
Andrea Lynn Pino (born February 15, 1992) is an American women's rights and civil rights activist, author, and a public scholar on issues of global gender based violence, media framing of violence, gender and sexuality, and narratives of survivorhood. She is the queer daughter of Cuban refugees and has stated that she is a survivor of sexual assault.
As a student, Pino was one of the primary writers and one of five complainants in the 2013 Title IX and Clery Act complaints against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Along with Annie E. Clark, Sophie Karasek, Kamilah Willingham, Wagatwe Wanjuki, and Caroline Heldman, she became a national leader in filing this sort of complaint, advising sexual assault victims at universities across the United States. Pino is a primary subject in the 2015 documentary film The Hunting Ground, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering and is also the author of “We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out". Pino has since been dogged by claims from fellow activists in the field and journalists that there is little truth behind the stories she told to gain her national reputation, some going as far as to call it an elaborate “web of lies.”
Early life
Pino was raised in Miami, Florida, United States, in a family of Cuban descent. She attended International Studies Charter High School.
Education
Pino attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; she was the first in her family to go to college. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
She has stated that she was raped twice while in college.
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