National Discussion on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment at America’s Colleges, Universities and Service Academies

Joanne Davila is a professor of Psychology and the director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University. She is an internationally known expert on romantic relationships and mental health. She has published widely in this area and is the co-author (with K. Lashman) of “The Thinking Girl’s Guide to the Right Guy: How Knowing Yourself Can Help You Navigate Dating, Hookups, and Love” (Guilford Press). She is a fellow in the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association (Division 12: Clinical Psychology) and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and is the editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. She is a licensed psychologist who specializes in evidence-based interventions for relationship problems, anxiety and depression.

Sarah DeGue is senior scientist in the Research and Evaluation Branch of the Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), and lead for CDC’s Dating Matters® teen dating violence prevention initiative. Dr. DeGue has published dozens of peer-reviewed manuscripts, government publications, book chapters, and articles and frequently serves as an invited speaker at national meetings and conferences. She has served as an advisor on evidence-based sexual violence prevention to the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, Department of Defense, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, CDC’s Rape Prevention and Education program, and more.

Walter DeKeseredy is chair of Social Sciences, director of the Research Center on Violence, and professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. He has published 25 books, 100 scientific journal articles and 83 scholarly book chapters on violence against women and other social problems. He has won numerous awards to include Criminologist of the Year, Distinguished Scholar Award, Research Excellence Award, Lifetime Achievement Award and Career Achievement Award.

Dr. Kimberly Dickman is the U.S. Air Force Academy’s (USAF)  SAPR analyst and acting program manager working in sexual assault prevention and response. She works to increase knowledge and understanding about sexual assault, and our role in the response and prevention of this crime. She has been an educator and mental health therapist for all ages from elementary to college level. She has numerous awards, including the USAF Civilian Meritorious Service Medal, and the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program of the Year. Dr. believes in the power of humans to change anything they set their minds to. She also highlights research and evidence that show sexual assault is preventable. Her engaging presentations impact audiences to act.

Dean and Professor in the College of Education at Union University, John D. Foubert serves as the Highly Qualified Expert and Senior Advisor for the U.S. Army Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention program. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with over 50 peer-reviewed publications. He has written ten books, including seven about the prevention of sexual violence on college campuses and in the military. He was the first scholar to document a reduction in sexual violence behavior resulting from a prevention program. In 1998, he founded the national rape-prevention nonprofit, One in Four. Currently, he serves on the national board of directors for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.

Deputy Director of the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, Nathan Galbreath is the department’s expert for prevention and response programs, and their relationship to behavioral health, forensic science, criminal investigation, and sex offender assessment and treatment. He is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology at USUHS. He has published a book chapter on child molesters, co-authored a chapter on sexual disorders and the Internet, and co-authored journal articles relating to sex offender recidivism and online sexual problems.

Katie Hood is the chief executive officer of One Love Foundation, an educator of young people on the topic of healthy and unhealthy relationships, as both a primary prevention strategy for relationship abuse and as an investment in the relationship health of the next generation. One Love’s award-winning film-based, peer-to peer educational workshops have reached over half a million young people across the country, and over 100 million have engaged with One Love’s educational campaigns online. Katie has participated in Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Conference. She is frequently quoted as an expert on dating violence and healthy relationships in national media outlets from ABC News to Teen Vogue.

Allison Tombros Korman serves as senior director of Culture of Respect, which builds the capacity of educational institutions to end sexual violence through ongoing, expansive organizational change. In her role, Allison works to ensure that all higher education institutions, wherever they may be on the road to creating their own campus’ culture of respect, have the resources they need to achieve this mission and the opportunity to learn from evidence-based research and the best practices of their colleagues. She has provided management, support, and technical assistance to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and served as the Associate Director of Education for the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP) in Washington, D.C.

Vicki Magley is a professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut. She has been studying sexual harassment for 25 years, focusing on its antecedents and consequences for both individuals and organizations, as well as how both individuals and organizations manage sexual harassment. She has advised the World Bank Group, Army, Air Force and National Park Service on sexual harassment climate change efforts and consulting with the U.S. Department of Interior. Most recently, she was one of the research experts on the National Academies of Sciences consensus study on sexual harassment in academia.

Patrick McGann serves as Men Can Stop Rape’s director of Strategy & Planning. He brings 19 years of university teaching and 21 years of nonprofit experience for current and future developments regarding mobilizing men for gender-based violence prevention. He played a key role in planning and implementing the Healthy Masculinity Action Project, a national two-year initiative that reached more than 60 million people with its messages and launched an international healthy masculinity movement. He serves on MTV’s A Thin Line Advisory Board and the Mobilizing Men for Violence Prevention (MMVP) Advisory Council.

Emily Rothman is a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health with secondary appointments at the Boston University School of Medicine in Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine. She is also a visiting scientist at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and scholar affiliated with the Ortner Center on Violence and Abuse in Relationships at the University of Pennsylvania. She has authored more than 100 publications that span the areas of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, firearm violence and pornography.

Dr. Valerie Stander is a research psychologist at the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC). She has spent 20 years studying the health and well-being of military personnel and their families. Principal investigator of the Millennium Cohort Family Study, a 21-year longitudinal program of research documenting the impact of military life stress on family relationships, she currently serves as co-chair of a DoD Defense Health Program working group supporting research on Early Assessment & Interventions to Support Service Member & Family Psychological Health.