iamjonvaughn

Athlete · Advocate · Speaker · Author

“I pitched a tent on the sidewalk and sat down inside it. That was the entire plan.”

Ann Arbor · October 2021 · more than a hundred days

A small blue pop-up tent alone on the sidewalk at night, in front of the University of Michigan president's residence. — South University Avenue, Ann Arbor

Jon Vaughn on campus at night, in a Michigan cap and a Hail to the Victims shirt.

Jon Vaughn is a former University of Michigan and NFL running back who has spent more than thirty years advocating for survivors of institutional sexual abuse. In 2021 he stood alone outside the University of Michigan president’s residence until the institution answered for what a team doctor had done to more than 2,100 students across half a century. He speaks internationally, including at U.S. military installations, and is co-author of Co-Pay, forthcoming from the American Bar Association.

The list

Know when Co-Pay opens for pre-order

Pre-orders open in December. Leave an address and you will hear when they do, plus the occasional note when something real happens. Nothing else, and never your address to anyone.

The book

Co-Pay, with Amos Guiora, published by the American Bar Association in 2027. Foreword by Judge Rosemarie Aquilina. An account of what happened at the University of Michigan, and of the people who knew.

Speaking

Keynotes on trust, institutional failure, and what accountability actually costs. Universities, athletic departments, corporate and military audiences — most recently the U.S. Eighth Army at Camp Humphreys, South Korea.

jv@iamjonvaughn.com

Press

Interviews, commentary and media requests to the same address. A full site, with the writing archive and the speaking rate card, follows this one.