Author & Significant Speeches

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
• 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:
• Commission Hearings, pursuant to the U.S. Commission on the Olympic Movement, 2023
•    2017 – 2018; Change.org Campaign with 136,725 signatures supporting S. 534 and H.R. 1973, the SafeSport 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, 2022
• USOC Financial Reforms Report for U.S. Senate, Intended to educate Congress on the finances of the Olympic movement, the flow of money, that did not go to athletes, 2018
• Position paper: Team Integrity Athlete First Recommendations to USOC, 2019
• Press Conference re; Congresswoman DeGette and Senator Cory Gardner legislation, 2019
• One-Page Model SafeSport Code, written with Marci Hamilton and Child USA
• Co-Author, The U.S Olympic Committee’s Moment of Truth, 2018
• Author: Michigan State Will Pay $500 Million to Abuse Victims. What Comes Next?, The New York Times, 2018
• Author: How to Stop Sexual Abuse in Sports, 2018
• Author: #MeToo shows need for tighter rules in club and Olympic sports, ESPN, 2017
• Author: letter within USA Today article, Attorneys call for USA Swimming chief to be fired, 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, 2015
• Author: Mattel Uses Barbie to Titillate Adult Male Sports Fans, 2014
• Author: Olympic Athletes Need Better Protections Against Sexual Harassment and Assault, 2012
• Co-Author: Setting a Realistic Standard of Proof in Sexual-Misconduct Cases, Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2012
• Co-wrote and organized 56 organizations and individuals to support Office for Civil Rights 2011 Guidance on peer sexual violence in education.

• Podcast, Crime Waves with Declan Hill, Nancy Hogshead: The Immortality Factor - The Fight To Protect Athletes From Abuse, 2024
• Podcast, Open Stance: Nancy Hogshead-Makar, 2021
• Podcast, Smart Talks, 1.16: Nancy's Story, 2020
• Podcast, Elizabeth Smart Foundation: “Three time Olympic gold medalist and sexual assault survivor, Nancy Hogshead-Makar, shares her story of rape and why it's important to love victims, especially during their most unlovable moments.” 2020
• Podcast, The Bank Shot, With the Abilities and Skills of a Dolphin: An Olympic and Women’s Champion, In and Out of the Water – Nancy Hogshead-Makar, 2020
• Podcast, I Survivor, A single traumatic event can change life in the blink of an eye. It can destroy you, enrage you, and even fuel the fire within you. Nancy Hogshead-Makar was raped in college, but she didn’t allow that to take over her life. Instead, Nancy channeled her fury into Olympic gold. 2018
• Podcast, Clean Sport Collective, Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Olympic Gold Medalist, Founder & CEO of Champion Women, 2020
• Podcast, Crime Waves, The Immortality Factor: the fight to protect athletes from abuse, 2020
• Keynote Speaker, Duke University Law, Sport and Entertainment Law Symposium, 2020.
• Keynote Speaker, Northeastern University School of Law, Women in Law Summit, 2019
• Podcast, 2 Much Grit 2 Quit, Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Olympic Gold Medalist, Founder and CEO of Champion Women, 2019
• Speaker, E. Robert Williams American Inn of Court, Women, Sports and the Law. 2019
• Keynote Speaker, Sport and Human Rights, What’s Business Got to Do With It?, 2019
• Speaker, AthletesCAN; National SafeSport Summit Program, Supporting Canadian Athletes, State of Safe Sport in North America; exploring existing & proposed mechanisms in policy, reporting, and management of safe sport issues, 2019.
• Documentary Featured Interview, Broken Trust; Athlete Abuse Exposed, 2019
• Speaker, National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Washington DC, 2018
• Podcast, Colorado Public Radio News, Olympian Nancy Hogshead-Makar On How To Protect Young Athletes From Abuse, 2018
• Keynote Speaker, University of Washington at Oshkosh, Gender Equity in Sports: Why You Should Be an Advocate Even If You've Never Done a Sit-Up, 2017.
• Speaker, Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sports and Sexual Violence: A Community Discussion, 2017.
• Speaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law, Suja Thomas’ Sports Law Class, The History and Theory of Title IX in Athletics, 2017.
• Podcast, Colorado Matters, Olympian Nancy Hogshead-Makar, on how to on how to protect young athletes from abuse, 2017

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