Right to Be

is a nonprofit organization working to end harassment in all its forms, through bystander intervention trainings, storytelling, and grassroots initiatives.

In May 2010, co-founder Emily May became Right to Be's first full-time executive director, and the organization successfully raised close to $15,000 on the internet fundraising platform, Kickstarter, to fund the development and release of the Hollaback!

[2] Seven New York City residents, four women and three men, founded the organization in 2005, under the not for profit, Artistic Evolucion, Inc, after a well-publicized occurrence of street harassment prompted them to discuss their own encounters.

[5] Right to Be has held many events around the world designed to raise awareness about street harassment, including film screenings, lectures, demonstrations, and book talks.

This investment gave the organization the infrastructure needed to report street harassment incidents to the New York City Council, via their platform "Councilstat.

expanded to many cities including Atlanta, Baltimore, Berkeley, Houston, Des Moines, Chicago, Columbia, Philadelphia, and Portland during this time.

[12] In 2015, Right to Be partnered with Cornell University to conduct the largest international study to date on street harassment.

In 2022, AARP, Right To Be, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC partnered to produce a series of animated videos to introduce bystander intervention methods.

[19] In addition to their partnership with L’Oréal, Right to Be has partnered with a variety of organizations to help create more specific bystander intervention trainings for different minority groups.

[41] In October 2014, Rob Bliss Creative created a video[42] which showed Shoshana Roberts,[43] a white woman in New York City, being harassed by men.

to release the entire 10 hours of footage, so people can see if it the two-minute video was selectively edited to be racist.