Soma Sara is the founder of Everyone’s Invited

In June 2020, Soma Sara started a website where young women and men could anonymously publish testimonies of their experience of sexual assault. She called it Everyone’s Invited and by April this year, more than 15,000 accounts had been shared, prompting Ofsted to launch a landmark investigation into sexual assault in our schools. “There needs to be a survivor-focused approach to these problems – that we’re actually listening and believing them and making sure that they feel supported when they come forward,” says Sara, who cites “barriers to reporting” as among the biggest obstacles in tackling the issue. “You should never, ever feel ashamed, or blame yourself, or feel humiliated for what you’ve been through.”