The Campus Culture and Healing Speaker Panel event will take place on Monday, March 14th at 7:00pm in Chem 1300. Alisa Zipursky will be providing a workshop on Healing Honestly Wednesday, March 16th at 6:00pm in Chem 1300.

Please feel free to submit any anonymous questions to our panelists in the google form. A short description of each panelist is included below.

Elizabeth A. Armstrong is a Sherry B. Ortner Collegiate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Armstrong joined the U-M faculty in 2009, returning to her undergraduate alma mater. Armstrong received her Ph.D. from the UC-Berkeley Department of Sociology and taught at Indiana University-Bloomington from 2000-09. Dr. Armstrong spent 2007-08 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and 2018-19 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. Armstrong's research focuses on the reproduction of gender, class, and race inequalities. She examines these processes in the domain of sexuality and within the organizational context of the university. With Sandra Levitsky, Kamaria Porter, and other colleagues at the University of Michigan, Armstrong is working to document and explain variation in university responses to sexual violence in a rapidly changing legal, political, and cultural environment. This project is a large, multi-year, multi-method project involving the construction and analysis of a quantitative data set and qualitative field work. Details about the project can be found on the project website.

Leanna Papp (she/they) is a Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies Ph.D. candidate whose research focuses on "mild" sexual assault and aggression in social drinking settings. Leanna is particularly interested in exploring how normalizing sexual violence influences women's expectations for and appraisals of their intimate lives.

Ashley Jacob, PsyD (she/her) is the CAPS Embedded Psychologist for LSA Graduate Students. She earned her doctoral degree from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in 2019 and has been working at CAPS in this role since August 2020. Her passion and clinical interests include: identity development, relationships, sexual health/sex positivity, and trauma-related concerns. She is also a member of the Survivor Support Team, which is a collaborative group of mental health care providers and SAPAC staff, specifically trained in providing trauma-informed care to survivors of sexual violence.

Kaaren M. Williamsen, Phd, is Director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center at the University of Michigan.  She has also served as the Title IX Coordinator at Swarthmore College and was the founding director of the Gender and Sexuality Center at Carleton College.  Kaaren has masters’ degrees in women’s studies (Minnesota State, Mankato) and counseling and student personnel psychology (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities); she holds a Phd in organizational leadership, policy, and development from the University of Minnesota.   She co-founded the national Campus PRISM (Promoting Restorative Initiatives for Sexual Misconduct) Project and is national expert in the use of a restorative justice for campus sexual misconduct.

Gel Henry (them/them) has worked at the Community Health Access Initiative at the University of Michigan School of Public Health since 2018. Gel has collaborated with medical and mental health clinicians, community organizations, and LGBTQIA+ young adults to develop training content related to LGBTQIA+ adolescent mental health. Gel has also facilitated virtual trainings for hundreds of health care workers. Gel Henry is a current student at Washtenaw Community College, where they are pursuing a B.A. in Public Health focusing on substance use education and harm reduction.

Please feel free to submit any anonymous questions to our speaker in the google form. A short description of our individual speaker is included below.

Alisa Zipursky is a storyteller, writer, facilitator and childhood sexual abuse survivor. She is the founder of HealingHonestly.com where she offers survivor-to-survivor support in healing from sexual trauma. It's funnier than you'd think. Alisa is also the author of the upcoming book Healing Honestly coming spring of 2023. She is a MothStorySLAM competition champ and has been published in outlets such as Allure and Teen Vogue. While based in DC, Alisa travels around the country giving talks and facilitating workshops to support other young survivors in their communities.