Natasha's Justice Project (NJP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to end the nation's current rape kit backlog crisis and empower and assist survivors of sexual assault through travel grants to testify at their trials.
NJP was founded by Natasha S. Alexenko, a victim and survivor of sexual assault, in hopes of exposing and eliminating the current rape kit backlog that exists in public municipalities throughout the United States.
In 1993, Natasha S. Alexenko, a twenty-year-old college student living in New York City, was violently raped, sodomized, and robbed at gunpoint by an unknown assailant while walking back to her apartment.
In 2003, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced the "John Doe Indictment Project," a coordinated city-wide initiative that aimed to prevent sex offenders from using the statute of limitations to escape prosecution.
Nearly a decade after her attack, Alexenko received a call from the New York City District Attorney's Office as prosecutors looked to use the DNA from her rape kit to create a "John Doe" indictment.