Meg Stone

Cognoscenti contributor

Meg Stone is the director of IMPACT. She also leads IMPACT:Ability, a program that empowers people with disabilities to prevent abuse.

Recently published

The White House is lit up in rainbow colors in commemoration of the Supreme Court's ruling to legalize same-sex marriage. Friday, June 26, 2015, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP)

First Came Love, Then — With The Law On Our Side — Came Marriage

The author reflects on what it meant to have her family and the law recognize her marriage 11 years before the Supreme Court's landmark same-sex marriage ruling.

Why Was It So Easy For Me To Believe That Josh Duggar Had Abused Children?

It was easy for me to condemn Josh Duggar. I abhor his values, I disagree with his politics. But what if it had been a prominent feminist or gay rights...

Why I Have To Keep Running

Boston is the city I love. The city I honor every time I run.

Campus Rape Crisis: What's Missing From The White House Sexual Violence Plan

Until we know more about how to stop people from sexually assaulting, the federal government needs to pursue every promising strategy toward prevention. Teaching college women self-defense should be chief...

Cognoscenti

Sep 11, 2014

A woman looks at the bullet holes on the window of IV Deli Mark where Friday night's mass shooting took place by a drive-by shooter on Saturday, May 24, 2014, in Isla Vista, Calif. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

To Stop The Next Shooting, Gun Rights Advocates Must Be Part Of The Solution

People whose lives will be forever diminished by gun violence deserve a response that is as complex and nuanced as violence itself.

Cognoscenti

May 29, 2014

Meg Stone: I felt more passionate about abuse prevention than I’d ever felt about anything, so why did I fail to act when I saw a mother threaten her child? (demandaj/flickr)

The Day I Did Nothing

I felt more passionate about abuse prevention than I’d ever felt about anything, so why did I fail to act when I saw a mother threaten her child?

Cognoscenti

Feb 12, 2014