Behind Some Campus Protests, a Team of Paid Professionals
Armed with a blue and white megaphone and a poster featuring a female silhouette and the words "stop blaming victims," Kelsey Bourgeois was at the epicenter of a large protest late last month just off Brigham Young University’s campus. The crowd assembled with the goal of persuading the university to relax its strict honor code and to grant immunity to people who come forward about sexual assault. The cause is personal for Ms. Bourgeois. She was raised Mormon and is herself a sexual-assault survivor two times over. Donning a simple black T-shirt, blue jeans, and sandals, she looked a lot like the thousands of other people who have protested on campuses across the country this academic year. But she’s not a student protester. She’s a professional activist.