“On the night of April 17, 1993, when I was a student at Pomona College, Travis Landry raped me. It has taken me 33 years to say his name,” Paulina González-Brito writes.
González-Brito first publicly named Landry in an Oct. 4, 2026 social media post. In this opinion article, she details her experiences with Landry, Pomona and the District Attorney’s Office.
“I was a second-year student at Pomona, class of 1995. [Landry] had been admitted to Pomona and was visiting as a prospective student during the college’s admitted students weekend. I never made it to 1995, dropping out soon after he raped me,” González-Brito writes.
“I decided to file charges,” she continues. “I had some hope, however naive, that by doing so I would perhaps make sure he never did this to another woman again. That I would be able to hold him accountable, to obtain some form of justice. That wouldn’t be the case.”
Landry went on to attend Brown University and become a full professor and Associate Provost at Kenyon College. In light of the recent nationwide movement against sexual assault following Jane Doe’s case against Cornell University, González-Brito writes that she has decided to come forward and publicly state Landry’s name as an act of liberation.
“Travis Landry raped me. I said his name and I will continue to say it. I act despite my fear. Join the other Jane Does and me in saying their names. Don’t protect them any longer,” she writes.
Words by Paulina González-Brito | Photo courtesy of TSL, 1993
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