Too many survivors who stay silent believe they'd be fighting alone if they raise their voices. The CDC's most recent national survey found that nearly 80 million American adults, close to 58 million women and more than 20 million men, have experienced contact sexual violence. For some people, those are just numbers. In reality, they're a base of power: millions of people who know this trauma intimately and are primed to act.

First, you can join an organization dedicated to addressing sexual violence head-on. Several national organizations are working to bring survivors and our allies together to demand systemic change. Organizations like mine, me too. International, along with the National Women's Law Center and UltraViolet, are on the front lines organizing survivor leaders, fighting for survivors in courtrooms, and keeping people engaged on these issues. Others, like Justice for Migrant Women, Educate Us, and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, work on where sexual and gender-based violence meets immigration, domestic work, and education. The Survivor Justice Network, a coalition of organizations fighting sexual and gender-based violence from a social and political standpoint, runs the Survivors Vote campaign to organize survivors as a voting bloc. And there are countless regional and local organizations fighting this fight every day, especially local rape crisis centers, many of which are struggling.