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As Chief Executive Officer, the organization has become the nation’s leading 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 is a passionate, dynamic speaker who has appeared at 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.
Jackson KatzMentors in Violence Prevention
Jackson Katz, Ph.D., is an educator, author, and global thought leader who is renowned for his pioneering scholarship and activism on issues of gender, race and violence. He is co-founder of the multi-racial, mixed-gender Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program, one of the longest-running and most widely influential gender violence prevention programs in North America and beyond. MVP was the first large-scale gender violence prevention initiative in sports culture and the U.S. military, and the program that introduced the “bystander” approach to the field. He is the author of numerous articles and two books, The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help. Creator of the award-winning Tough Guise educational documentary series, and the recently released video The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at Its Roots. He has appeared in numerous documentaries, including Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In.
Neil MalamuthUniversity of California Los Angeles
Professor at UCLA, is the author of more than 150 scholarly publications, primarily studying the causes and prevention of sexual assault. He has been honored as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the American Psychological Society, has been rated as a highly eminent researcher in an objective analysis, and is the recipient of the Kendall Award for Outstanding Contributions to Psychology. His research has been supported by multiple research grants from federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice, the National Institute of Mental Health and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He has served on national committees of the Surgeon General and of the National Institute of Mental Health. Recently, he has delivered invited presentations on the topic of sexual assault to various branches of the Armed Forces, including the Air Force and the Coast Guard.
Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences. 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 US 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.
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 60,000,000 people with its positive 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.
Founder of Restless Creation, a strategy design and innovation company that focuses on the human elements of helping large organizations develop and implement their ideas more effectively. Before founding Restless Creation, Chris served as the first Chief Operating Officer and Head of Services at Future Partners, the “Think Wrong” company, now Solve Next, after founding two other startups. He previously served as an intelligence officer, strategic advisor and speechwriter in the U.S. Navy. He has advised senior leaders throughout the DoD on innovation and development strategies, and helped lay the foundation for the Navy’s rapid acquisition framework. In 2016, Chris founded The Navalist, a publication on naval strategy and continues to serve as its Editor-in-Chief.
Sharyn J. Potter University of New Hampshire
Professor of Sociology and Co-founder and Executive Director of Research at the Prevention Innovations Research Center: Ending Sexual and Relationship Violence and Stalking at the University of New Hampshire. Co-founder and Vice-President of Research of Soteria Solutions. Global leader on the social scientific development and evaluation of bystander intervention strategies. Leader in the development, dissemination and evaluation of theory- and research-based bystander intervention prevention strategies including the uSafeUS® mobile app, the Know Your Power® Bystander Social Marketing Campaign, and a bystander video game that models pro-social bystander behaviors. She led a study for the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault to examine sexual misconduct policy delivery methods. She is a national expert on designing and administering sexual violence prevalence studies. Her recent TEDx talk describes the individual and societal economic and human capital losses attributed to sexual violence. She has been cited in the Guardian, New York Times, National Public Radio, Vox, Glamour Magazine, and Teen Vogue.
Laura F. SalazarGeorgia State University
Professor in Health Policy and Behavioral Science at Georgia State University's School of Public Health. Her web-based program (RealConsent) was found to be effective in preventing sexual violence perpetration among male college students and is listed on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s website as an evidence-based effective primary prevention program. Her intervention research includes the use of media and web-based approaches to expand the reach of health promotion. She has numerous publications in peer reviewed journals and is a co-author of two public health textbooks: Research Methods in Health Promotion and Health Behavior Theory for Public Health: Principles, Foundations and Applications.
Executive Director of Practice and Co-founder of the Prevention Innovations Research Center: Ending Sexual and Relationship Violence and Stalking at the University of New Hampshire. She is also the Co-founder and President of Soteria Solutions. She provides training and technical assistance to colleges, universities and private residential high schools on how to create, evaluate, and sustain comprehensive sexual and relationship violence and stalking prevention and response strategies. She is a lead developer and evaluator of the Know-Your-Power® Bystander Social Marketing Campaign and trains on how to facilitate Bringing in the Bystander®. She was a founding member of the Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program (SHARPP) at UNH.
Professor in the Department of Youth, Family, and Community Studies and the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life at Clemson University. She also is an Adjunct Professor in Emory University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her research focuses the predictors and consequences of sexual violence victimization among college females and a 4-year longitudinal study examining trajectories and predictors of sexual violence perpetration among college males. She also served as a consultant on Columbia University’s Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation initiative. She currently serves as a Co-PI on two funded projects to develop and test preventive interventions for sexual violence among college students, and is on Clemson’s Sexual Violence Task Force and Title IX Hearing Board.
Cynthia ThomsenNaval Health Research Center
Head of the Health and Behavioral Sciences Department at the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC). Before NHRC, she spent 12 years at Northern Illinois University’s Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault, focused on modeling risk and protective factors for sexual assault and family violence within active duty military populations. She currently focuses on understanding risk and protective factors for adverse mental and behavioral health outcomes, using this information to develop effective interventions to prevent the development of negative outcomes. Dr. Thomsen is also involved in multiple efforts to enhance resilience and promote readiness among service members through improved surveillance of mental and behavioral health as well as interventions designed to improve team communication and enhance decision-making under stress.