Education
She attended International Studies Charter High School.
She attended International Studies Charter High School.
As a student, Pino was one of the primary writers and one of five complainants in the 2013 Title IX and Clery Acting complaints against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Along with Annie East. Clark, she became a national leader in filing this sort of complaint, advising sexual assault victims at universities across the United States. Pino is a primary subject in the 2015 documentary film The Hunting Ground, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering.
Pino was raised in Miami, Florida, United States, North America.
As a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she was the first in her family to go to college. According to Pino, her activism was driven by her many experiences with sexual assault and harassment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
After being raped by a fellow University of North Carolina student in March 2012, Pino claimed that she had been unsupported by the university administration and policies that purported to protect her and other students reporting sexual violence, allegedly being told by an administrator that her problem was that she was “just lazy."
According to Pino, when she began to communicate to the University of North Carolina administration her desire to receive support for her assault and for the consecutive assaults of students who approached her, University of North Carolina administration denied that their policies were in non-compliance. In response, Pino approached University of North Carolina alumna Annie East. Clark, who also had reported being mistreated.
The two began to research Title IX, a federal legislation which grants students the right to an education without sex discrimination, as well as the Clery Acting, which grants protections for sexual assault victims on college campuses.
Their research yielded a strategy originally proposed by feminist scholar Catharine MacKinnon in the 1970s, where she argued that using the threat of withdrawing federal funding as a means to force universities to effect changes in sexual assault policies. In January 2013, Pino and Clark, together with several other University of North Carolina students and one former administrator, filed a 34-page complaint against the university with the United States Department of Education"s Optical Character Recognition. After the women filed the complaint, the Optical Character Recognition and the Clery Compliance Division both launched investigations into how the university was handling sexual assault and crime on campus. Following the media coverage of the University of North Carolina complaint, Pino and Clark connected with sexual assault survivors from institutions across the country and began assisting them in filing Title IX and Clery Acting complaints against their institutions.
As a result, students have successfully filed complaints against Swarthmore College, Occidental College, the University of California, Berkeley, Dartmouth College, The University of Southern California, and Columbia University, among others
Clark and Pino"s activism are the subject of a controversial 2015 documentary film, The Hunting Ground. In spring 2016, Clark and Pino will publish We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out with Henry Holt Company
In 2013, Pino and Clark co-founded (EROC), a group working to end sexual violence on campuses around the country. EROC helps people who have been sexually assaulted with direct resources, with pro bono therapists and attorneys, and it provides assistance with filing complaints.
