2011 NCCWSL Keynote Speaker, Shelby Knox

Portions of the keynote address by Shelby Knox delivered at the 2011 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders.

Shelby Knox has been championing sex education since her high school days in Lubbock, Texas. Filmmakers even documented her rise to activism in 2006's The Education of Shelby Knox. Now she travels across the country as a speaker and an organizer, specializing in designing workshop programming for youth leaders.

Knox has appeared on the Today show, Good Morning America, and Dr. Phil and in the pages of Glamour, Bust, and Seventeen magazines as an advocate for comprehensive sex education. She also blogs on feminism and sexual health for the Huffington Post and contributes to the feminist quarterly The F-Word. Knox currently lives in New York City and is a full-time speaker and organizer working with progressive organizations to promote sex education, women's rights, and youth empowerment.

Knox holds a degree in political science from the University of Texas at Austin.

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