A local woman has gathered hundreds of letters of support for Jane Doe

In the fall of 2024, Kaytee Faris remembers reading about an alleged sexual assault at Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity house. She assumed that it was going to be handled by the proper authorities. Two years later, allegations that a former Cornell student was drugged and raped in an incident that involved seven former fraternity brothers exploded into national headlines. Faris, an area mom, leapt into action. First, she wrote a letter to Cornell president Michael Kotlikoff. Then, she started messaging people on the internet, ultimately connecting with Sexual Health Educator Finley Muratova and Sexual Assault Survivor Advocate Ray Epstein, helping them to plan a rally in support of Jane Doe on Oct. 13. “We didn’t want this to be a one-off,” Faris said. “We wanted the audience to be part of it.” That’s where the idea of a letter-writing campaign came in. At one time, Faris was the recipient of a wave of letters of support. “In 2019, I had a stillbirth,” Faris said. “My daughter died.

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