"Transforming Cultures, Curricula, and Communities: Educating to End Sexual Violence in K-12"
NAME IT: K-12 Track
Eliot Lyman (Longfellow, Floor 2)
1:00-2:30PM
Eliot Lyman (Longfellow, Floor 2)
1:00-2:30PM
Gretchen Brion-Meisels is a lecturer in the Prevention Science and Practice Program. Her research seeks to explore partnerships between youth and adults that support both individual and collective development. She is particularly interested in using Youth Participatory Action Research to investigate and reform student support efforts, as well as to build positive school climate. Gretchen has participated in a variety of research projects including investigations of: adolescents' perspectives of schooling and community-based work, social emotional learning in schools, holistic student support systems, and the intersections of bullying and discrimination in prevention research and practice. Her courses focus on supporting positive youth development, creating loving educational spaces, and partnering with youth in educational research and practice.
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Nicole Daley is the Director, Evaluation and Engagement at OneLove, with over 9 years of experience working in government. She served as Program Director of the Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships Initiative at the Boston Public Health Commission for over 5 years before joining One Love. Her expertise is in the field of teen dating violence prevention, healthy relationship promotion, program and partnership development. She lead a team that has developed innovative curriculum for teens and adults on healthy relationships, teen dating violence, media literacy and healthy break-ups. She has a passion for supporting young people in being change agents in addressing teen dating violence. Her work has been featured in the Boston Globe and The New York Times. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MPH from Boston University School of Public Health.
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Richard Weissbourd is currently a senior lecturer in education at HGSE and at the Kennedy School of Government. He is also the co-director of the Human Development and Psychology master's program. His work focuses on vulnerability and resilience in childhood, the achievement gap, moral development, and effective schools and services for children. He directs the Making Caring Common Project, a national effort to make moral and social development priorities in child-raising and to provide strategies to schools and parents for promoting in children caring, a commitment to justice and other key moral and social capacities. He is currently conducting research on how older adults can better mentor young adults and teenagers in developing ethical, mature romantic relationships. He has advised on the city, state, and federal levels on family policy and school reform and has written for numerous scholarly and popular publications, including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, CNN, The New Republic, The American Prospect, NPR, and Psychology Today.
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Shael Norris has dedicated herself to a career of ending violence against women and girls. She is a founding staffer of V-Day, overseeing the College and Community Campaigns for 19 years. After decades of work focused on college sexual assault, she sought a grant to establish SafeBAE to focus specifically on younger students. Her three children and dedication to making schools a safer place was the driving force which lead to the creation SafeBAE.
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Sarah Schorn is the Director of Student Affairs at Hawai’i Preparatory Academy (HPA), an independent K-12 boarding and day school on the Big Island of Hawai’i . She has worked extensively in school operations, residential life programming, and curriculum development for the past 6 years. She has also led programming coordination around character education, global citizenship, student travel, and social and emotional learning. Sarah has been serving as the point person for sexual misconduct prevention at HPA for the past 2 years. In this capacity she has led faculty and student trainings and discussions, revised school policy, and helped to create more awareness around sexual harassment prevention and the promotion of healthy relationships on campus. She is also the chair of the Diversity Taskforce and is currently spearheading efforts to examine and improve diversity and inclusivity at HPA. Her hope for all students is that they discover and utilize their unique talents and capacities to devote themselves to finding creative solutions to the issues of today. She holds a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego and an M.A. in International Education from George Washington University.
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