Selma Newbill, founder of the University of Southern Mississippi Sexual Assault Prevention Ambassadors, writes about USM’s history of sexual assault on campus.
Selma Newbill Mackay
Selma (Newbill) Mackay is a second-year Master of Public Policy student at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy with a concentration in Social Policy. At Duke, Selma has worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and a Research Assistant at Duke Law’s Wilson Center for Science and Justice. She served as the President of Sanford Women in Policy in 2023-24 and spearheaded the first annual Women in Policy Gala alongside her peers. Selma also works remotely part-time at Volare as an Advocacy Support Specialist to continue her lifelong mission to support survivors of crime and abuse. Selma is a 2021 Summa Cum Laude graduate of The University of Southern Mississippi where she double majored in Political Science and English and completed the Honors College program. After graduation, she began working at Volare as a Survivor Advocate in Washington DC where she provided advocacy and long term case management support to survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, and human trafficking as well on-scene crisis responses at crime scenes and at hospitals.