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Champion Women’s Work to Remedy Sexual Abuse in Sport:

• Member of the 16-person Commission on the State of the U.S. Olympics and Paralympics, 2021—present. Appointed by Senator Maria Cantwell.
• Commission Final Report: “Passing the Torch; Modernizing Olympic, Paralympic, & Grassroots Sports In America” 2024, available here: https://www.csusop.org/
• 2018; Feinstein and Congress Press Conference re; celebrating the passage of “Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and the Safe Sport Authorization Act”, S. 534 and H.R. 1973: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7vh4TK_o0s

2023, Commission Hearings, pursuant to the U.S. Commission on the Olympic Movement. September 6, 2023, available at: https://www.c-span.org/organization/commission-on-the-state-of-us-olympics-and-paralympics/144298/

•    2017 – 2018; Change.org Campaign with 136,725 signatures supporting S. 534 and H.R. 1973, the SafeSport Act. https://www.change.org/p/pass-the-protecting-young-victims-from-sexual-abuse-act
• Chair, Advisory Board for the CHILD USA Nassar investigation, 2018 – 2022
• CHILD USA’s Game Over Commission to Protect Youth Athletes; A Case-Study of Systemic Abuse in Sports Perpetrated by Larry Nassar, 
    Read the Report, January 28, 2022
• USOC Financial Reforms Report for U.S. Senate, June 2018. Intended to educate Congress on the finances of the Olympic movement, the flow of money, that did not go to athletes. https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/573edb75-6173-4bec-8d91-9972c89dc2cd/downloads/USOC%20Financial%20Reforms%20Report.%20Committee%20to%20Re.pdf 
• White paper: Team Integrity Athlete First Recommendations to USOC, January 19, 2019. https://cdn.swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Team-Integrity-Athlete-First-Recommendations-to-USOC-1-21-2019-1.pdf
• Press Conference re; Congresswoman DeGette and Senator Cory Gardner legislation, June 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/larry-nassar-is-in-jail-but-only-one-usoc-official-was-fired-yes-we-need-reform/2019/06/17/059053dc-912c-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html?utm_term=.5e7adda95521
• One-Page Model SafeSport Code, written with Marci Hamilton and Child USA: https://championwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Champion-Women-and-Child-USA-SafeSport-Policies-and-Boundaries-updated-2020-2-1.pdf
• Co-Author, with Dani Bostick: The U.S Olympic Committee’s Moment of Truth, Huffington Post, June 1, 2018; available at: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-bostick-hogshead-makar-us-olympic-committee_us_5b102e67e4b0870ebd098935
• Author: Michigan State Will Pay $500 Million to Abuse Victims. What Comes Next? The New York Times, May 18, 2018; available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/opinion/michigan-state-will-pay-500-million-to-abuse-victims-what-comes-next.html
• Author: How to Stop Sexual Abuse in Sports, Athletic Business, January 2018; available at: https://www.athleticbusiness.com/athlete-safety/how-to-stop-sexual-abuse-in-sports.html?bid=1976409&amp%3Beid=63819669
• Author: #MeToo shows need for tighter rules in club and Olympic sports, ESPN, October 26, 2017; available at: http://www.espn.com/espnw/voices/article/21127152/nancy-hogshead-makar-metoo-shows-need-tighter-rules-club-olympic-sports
• Author: letter within USA Today article, Attorneys call for USA Swimming chief to be fired, March 31, 2017.
• Author; “Sexual Assault on Campus: 9 Views on What Will Signal Progress; Hogshead-Makar, When Victims Have the Tools to Recover, Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2016.
• Author: Believing victims is the first step in addressing effects of sexual violence and Title IX compliance, Title IX Today, April 10, 2015.
• Author: Mattel Uses Barbie to Titillate Adult Male Sports Fans, Huffington Post, February 28, 2014. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-hogsheadmakar/mattel-uses-barbie-to-tittillate-adult-male-sports-fans_b_4876551.html
• Author: Olympic Athletes Need Better Protections Against Sexual Harassment and Assault, October 12, 2012. https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/education/nancy-hogshead-makar-olympic-athletes-need-better-protections-from-sexual-harassment-and-assault/.
• Co-Author: Setting a Realistic Standard of Proof in Sexual-Misconduct Cases, Chronicle of Higher Ed, October 2012, http://chronicle.com/article/Setting-a-Realistic-Standard/135084/ with Brett Sokolow.
• Co-wrote and organized 56 organizations and individuals to support Office for Civil Rights 2011 Guidance on peer sexual violence in education. http://ow.ly/MS8Ka

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