A month after the Eliot House list incident, Keel celebrated a victory with her fellow CASV members.
In April, a Harvard committee charged with examining Harvard’s sexual assault policy recommended the creation of an Office of Sexual Assault and Response at the College.
Keel says that this decision was a positive step in the way in which Harvard deals with sexual aassault.
“It was a major investment on Harvard’s part,” she says. “We’re really excited about it.”
However, Keel says that the decision to create the new office was a compromise.
“It was probably a diversionary tactic but also a positive step,” she says. “We’d been asking for a long time for centralized resources [to deal with sexual assault].”
Keel says she is aware that her outspoken views and her reputation as a feminist precede her.
“That’s something people know about me, even before they meet me, and they make a lot of assumptions that aren’t true.”