Ask the Experts
Life Sentence
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Jennifer Almonte
Founder, The I AM Journey
Jennifer Almonte is a sexual violence prevention educator, speaker, and advocate on a mission to promote healthy relationships as an avenue to support a sexual violence-free future. She holds a BA and MS in Criminal Justice from Long Island University and has spent over a decade guiding college students through essential conversations about consent, boundaries, and respect.
As a survivor herself, Jennifer brings both lived experience and professional expertise to her work. She believes that teaching and learning about healthy relationships can transform communities. She facilitates workshops and leads candid, community-based discussions that challenge harmful norms, promote empathy, and uplift the voices of those impacted by sexual violence. Her work centers human connection as a foundation for prevention and culture change.
She has recently expanded her focus to support parents of young children and parents of young adults with disabilities, helping them build early skills around healthy communication, emotional awareness, and bodily autonomy. She believes prevention starts early—and that every family deserves the tools to create safe and respectful relationships.
Jennifer’s advocacy also centers the intersection of sexual violence and disability. As a proud graduate of the GaLEND Program (Georgia Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities), she is committed to advancing trauma-informed, accessible care for survivors with neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Jennifer is married and the proud mother of a college student and a middle schooler. Her family loves watching movies, trying new foods, and laughing together over the little things.
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Natasha de Silva
Founder and Principal, Intersection
Based in Australia, Natasha is recognised nationally and internationally as a human rights, equality and inclusion expert.
While specialising in the rights of women at work, Natasha brings to this a holistic and intersectional understanding of racial equality, disability rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, and age discrimination.
As Principal of Intersection, Natasha is a sought after expert advisor on cultural reform initiatives across the public and private sectors. Key to Natasha’s approach is a trauma-informed, person-centred approach that elevates the voices of victim-survivors.
Natasha’s deep workplace culture experience covers a wide range of sectors and includes specific expertise across the sporting landscape working the Australian Football League, Cricket Australia, Golf Australia, Basketball Australia, Football Australia, Sport Integrity Australia, the Australian Sports Commission and FIFA.
Natasha has led the following policy and projects that examine and promote the rights of athletes in sport:
- Options Paper: Responding to non-recent abuse in sport (2025 forthcoming)
- Guidelines on the inclusion of people with disability in golf (forthcoming)
- Bullying in Sport (2024)
- Cultural Health Check, Cricket Australia (2024)
- FIFA 2023 Women’s World Cup Human Rights Risk Assessment (2021)
- Independent Review into Gymnastics in Australia (2021)
- Racial Equality Review of Basketball Australia (2021)
- Guidelines on the inclusion of women and girls in golf (2019)
Natasha has been appointed a part-time Sessional Commissioner of the Victorian Parliamentary Workplace Standards and Integrity Commission from 2025-2030.
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Bobby Click
Executive Director, EM — Sport Safety
Bobby Click, JD, Executive Director of Sport Safety-EM, brings extensive experience and a deep commitment to preventing abuse in sports and youth-serving organizations. A graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law, Bobby began his career as a civil and criminal litigator in the Southeast before transitioning into sport safety. He previously served as Vice President of Response and Resolution at the U.S. Center for SafeSport, overseeing misconduct reports within the Olympic Movement. His work in developing national policies and educational programs for abuse prevention has earned him widespread respect in the sports and youth-serving communities. Bobby regularly presents and teaches at conferences and universities worldwide on issues related to abuse prevention and athlete protection. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his wife, two boys, and their standard poodle, Huckleberry, exploring the outdoors, and cheering on the Crimson Tide—Roll Tide!
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