Sarah Jezek is a survivor and a founding member of this nonprofit.
Her involvement is rooted in firsthand experience navigating Canada’s criminal justice system and in the lasting personal, professional, and health impacts that followed. Through that process, she witnessed not only how difficult it is to secure accountability, but how quickly survivors are left without support, protection, or recourse once formal systems conclude.

That experience shaped Sarah’s understanding of where systems break down — not just during investigations or trials, but in the long aftermath survivors are expected to navigate alone. It also clarified what is missing: continuity, accountability beyond outcomes, ethical safeguards, and structures that do not rely on survivors to carry the burden of reform.

In forming this organization, Sarah brings a survivor-informed perspective grounded in lived reality, alongside the ability to translate hard-won insight into durable systems. She contributes a focus on boundaries, consent, and accountability, and a commitment to building survivor-led work that is ethical, resilient, and designed to endure beyond any single case or moment.

Justine Hopkins was the first survivor to come forward publicly regarding Justin Marc Aguiar and the first to uncover massive Telegram chats, websites, and archives exposing abuse. Drawing on her investigative journalism skills, she is driven by a mission for accountability, truth, and systemic change.

Her work spans advocacy, policy, and legal reform, confronting failures within police services, victim programs, and institutional responses to sexual violence and exploitation. Justine brings a rare combination of investigative rigor and systems fluency, exposing emerging trafficking tactics—particularly within nightlife, digital spaces, and encrypted platforms—while translating complex threats into actionable knowledge for communities and decision-makers.

Throughout this process, Justine has operated as her own legal advocate, researcher, and public strategist, navigating highly complex systems independently while building a strong academic foundation in political science, criminology, and forensic science. Her ability to synthesize evidence, identify patterns, and move quickly from discovery to action has made her a central force in accountability efforts well beyond her years.

Justine is widely recognized within the founding team as a decisive, execution-oriented leader—someone who makes things happen. Her judgment, stamina, and clarity consistently exceed expectations, and her contributions reflect the discipline and drive of a future legal professional. She intends to pursue law school and brings to this organization a forward-looking perspective grounded in lived experience, investigative depth, and an uncompromising commitment to survivor-centred reform.

Jayden Posen brings lived experience, research depth, and ethical leadership to the founding team. Her involvement is rooted in firsthand experience with sexual violence, manipulation, coercive control, and trafficking-related tactics, alongside sustained advocacy focused on survivor agency, consent, and systemic accountability.

Her work examines how harm is often misunderstood, minimized, or normalized, both within abusive dynamics and within institutional and advocacy spaces. Jayden brings a critical lens to blurred consent, gaslighting, and power imbalances, particularly where “help” or advocacy comes with conditions that undermine survivor autonomy.

A core contribution Jayden brings to the organization is her focus on informed, ongoing consent in advocacy and storytelling, and her resistance to treating trauma as currency for visibility, funding, or leverage without transparency or accountability.

In addition to lived experience, Jayden has conducted independent research and documentation on emerging recruitment and coercion tactics, highlighting how exploitation has adapted within modern social and informal networks. Her perspective helps anchor the organization in ethical frameworks, education, policy reform, and long-term survivor protection.

Melissa Heaton brings lived experience, public accountability, and care-centered perspective to the founding team. She was the first individual to come forward publicly about Mark Holland at the age of 18, a disclosure that played a critical role in revealing a broader pattern of harm and underscored the systemic barriers faced by young survivors when they speak out.

With a background in professional modeling, Melissa has firsthand experience navigating public visibility, scrutiny, and the pressures placed on survivors once their stories enter the public sphere. This perspective informs her understanding of how exposure can both enable accountability and create additional risk—insight that is essential to shaping ethical advocacy and survivor protections.

In the years following the assault and legal process, Melissa has undergone significant personal transformation and now works in long-term care. This work is grounded in empathy, patience, and dignity, and reflects a sustained commitment to care, trust, and human-centered support, values that translate directly into survivor-informed organizational culture.