Heidi Goldstein
Heidi Goldstein is an activist committed to improving K-12 institutional policy, practice and infrastructure to both prevent and respond to incidents of sexual harassment and assault, and to provide robust survivor support. She is a founding adult advisor of BHS Stop Harassing, an award-winning student grassroots organization in Berkeley CA, working continuously since 2015 to change the culture and response of the Berkeley Unified School District to incidents of sexual harassment and assault:
She has served since 2020 as the board chair of Stop Sexual Harassment in Schools (SSAIS), a national non-profit dedicated to educating students, families and schools about the right to an equal education free from sexual harassment.
She is also a founding collaborator in the development of SASH Club, a national organization providing free, ready-to-use tools and resources to empower youth to end sexual harassment and assault in their schools and communities.
Heidi's work in the public school environment is broad and deep. She was a founding member of the Berkeley (CA) Unified School District (BUSD) Sexual Harassment Advisory Committee (SHAC) in 2014 and has served on the BUSD Personnel Commission since 2016. She works as a human resources and management consultant to a wide variety of non-profit clients, including school districts, where she leads organizational development to build robust Title IX and Title VII policies and practices that integrate equity and access into daily operations.