Donna Freitas is a sometime professor and researcher on topics related to sex on campus, Title IX, and sexual assault, and she has spoken about her work at more than two hundred colleges and universities across the United States. She is also the author of several fiction and nonfiction books, among them Consent on Campus: A Manifesto (Oxford University Press) and Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention (Little, Brown). She has appeared on NPR, the Today show, and many other radio and news programs to talk about her research, and her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among other places. Her novel The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano will be published in spring 2021 by Pamela Dorman Books/Viking and in more than twenty other countries and languages. She lives in Brooklyn.