Morgan Rumple-Whiting

Morgan serves as the Director of Coordinated Response and Systems Change for the Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking, Inc. Here, she provides training and technical assistance to Sexual Assault Response Teams in every county in the state of Indiana. These teams include prosecutors, law enforcement, advocates, and health care professionals who are supported in responding to sexual violence cases in a trauma informed, survivor centered, and culturally fluent way. In addition to this role, she has also served as the co-chair of the Southern Indiana Human Trafficking Coalition for the past 5 years. In Morgan co-founded a program called Student Advocates for Exploited and Trafficked Youth (S.A.F.E.T.Y).© The program was piloted in Harrison County, Indiana in 2018 and is preparing to become a program that will reach many states! It aims at ensuring that youth are equipped with tools to become leaders and advocates in their communities with the goal of ending human trafficking. Morgan’s passion for serving vulnerable populations who face sexual and domestic violence comes from many sources, including her experiences in South Africa and Turkey while at Hanover College. She was able to focus on issues facing women politically and economically and studied how sexual violence is perpetuated throughout out societies and cultures. She also found a passion in this work from being a survivor of sexual violence herself and feels that we must address multiple layers of oppression and exploitation in order to serve survivors of color in the best and appropriate way. She is a graduate of Emerge Kentucky 2021! She looks forward to taking her skills developed in her professional work into building community, bringing in resources, and and ensuring that voices are heard and lifted up throughout her community.