Joyti has a proven track record of preventing and resolving sexual harassment and sexual assault. The preventive, investigative, and resolution work she does through her agency, Clear Safe, also creates company cultures that are inclusive, psychologically safe, and in which employees and leaders not only feel welcome, but empowered.

Prior to starting Clear Safe, Joyti worked with survivors and communities for over six years, and prevented sexual assault and harassment, and advocated for survivors in workplaces and communities. Joyti is also a first generation college graduate who worked multiple jobs to put herself through college. She received a BA in economics from UC Davis, a JD from UC Hastings, and worked with startups in a variety of roles, including founding and leadership. Joyti cares deeply about making a positive difference around the frequency of sexual harassment/assault, and chose to start her agency over a potentially lucrative law career. She works with a variety of communities and organizations, including non-profits and tech start-ups. Her services include trainings for organizations, and a list of offerings on topics is detailed on the front page of our website (https://www.clearlysafe.co/)

And here’s the full story of why I started Clear Safe —

I’m Joyti. My career and life story has been both non-traditional and non-linear.

From a young age, I’ve overcome the odds. By the time I was seven, I was determined to get an education. As an adult, I was drawn to the startup world, to the very American ideal of a building new business. The perseverance, grit, and passion for healing and preventing rape drives me as much as the determination to acquire an education did when I was younger.

Getting an education wasn’t guaranteed to me, but I knew it was something I wanted. No one in my mother’s family nor my father’s had been to college. I read everything I could get my hands on, even the backs of cereal boxes. I got my first job bagging parts for lasers when I was fifteen. That company later hired me as a mechanical engineering intern. I fought hard to leave my parent’s home for college.

The first time I was raped was my first month of college. Still, I worked two jobs to support myself through college. Fearing they would force me to drop out, I didn’t tell my family about the rape. Against the odds, I graduated with a bachelor’s in economics from UC Davis. When I graduated, my parents said I did so in spite of them, and not because.

After college, I worked in mortgage banking, and in my first month, I was the top performer in my department of forty or so mortgage bankers. When the bank was acquired, I went to law school. By the end of my first semester, I knew being a lawyer wasn’t for me. Still, getting an education was important to me. I graduated with a JD from UC Hastings in 2014. I took on several odd jobs: front-end programming at a biotech startup, operations at a legal-tech one. A general partner managing a few VC hired me for an in-house role after I provided her with samples of my work. Next, I started a very small consultancy, and worked with numerous startups over the next two years.

In 2014, I was sexually assaulted. In 2016, I was raped again. So while I learned about startups, I worked on sexual assault and sexual harassment. Victims regularly approach me for advice, emotional support, and advocacy. I’ve had early success in two goals: in preventing rape from serial predators, and supporting communities and institutions in resolving sexual assault/abuse. Victims and corporate leaders have said kind things about the help I’ve provided.

This is what led me to starting Clear Safe, and we are empowering survivors, communities, workplaces, and institutions in preventing and healing from sexual assault and sexual harassment.