Rosalia Rivera
Founder, CONSENTparenting™, Host, AboutCONSENT™ podcast, Co-founder, Brave Movement
Rosalia Rivera is a consent and child sexual abuse prevention specialist and educator, and child rights advocate. She is a co-founder of the Brave Movement, a global survivor-led organization working to end childhood sexual violence worldwide, and founder of CONSENTparenting™, an online platform that educates parents about child sexual abuse and evidence-based prevention strategies.
Rosalia is also a co-founder and Chair of the Survivors Council of Canada, which works to prevent CSA and support healing and justice for children and youth in Canada by bringing survivor voices, lived expertise, and leadership into decisions, policies and practices into local, regional and federal government discussions affecting children and youth.
Rosalia is a 2x TEDx speaker, having presented on the topic of dismantling rape culture (2021) and creating consent culture (2022) at TEDxOneonta. In 2023 she was named Verywell Mind's 25 Mental Health Champion Honoree for her work in centering the healing journey of parents with lived experience. She has been featured in CNN, HuffPost, Parents Magazine, MSNBC, Toronto Star and Global and Mail.
She is currently working on a book focused on prevention education for busy parents, slated for release in 2028.
Ms. Rivera's advocacy work bridges grassroots survivor support with institutional change, advancing comprehensive strategies that address online and offline child sexual exploitation, and advocates for adequate financial investment in child protection initiatives.
Mrs. Rivera was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the US at the age of five. She has a background in commercial photography, marketing, and communications, and changed careers in 2017 when she began working in child sexual abuse prevention education.
She currently lives in British Columbia, Canada with her husband and three children.