Prof. Gómez Presents at NASEM Summit on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education
Jennifer M. Gómez, PhD, an assistant professor at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), recently shared her expertise at the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education 2024 Public Summit held by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine (NASEM) at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.
Prof. Gómez’s talk, “Institutional Courage & Dreamstorming: Strategies for Addressing Sexual Harassment Against Black Women Graduate Students,” was presented as part of a panel on institutional responses to sexual harassment. The panel also featured BUSSW alum Kenyora Parham (MSW’12), board chair and CEO of the organization End Rape on Campus.
Watch the panel (“Institutional Responses to Sexual Harassment: A Discussion of How They Go Wrong and How Institutional Leaders Can Do Better and Practice Institutional Courage”):
View Prof. Gómez’s presentation.
Prof. Jennifer M. Gómez is a Black feminist trauma researcher, critical race scholar, and author of “The Cultural Betrayal of Black Women & Girls: A Black Feminist Approach to Healing from Sexual Abuse” as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles and other works. She is the creator of cultural betrayal trauma theory (CBTT) which she developed to examine the impact of oppression on outcomes of violence on Black and other marginalized individuals and communities.
In addition to serving on the faculty at BU School of Social Work, she is a board member at the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD), End Rape On Campus, and Center for Institutional Courage; faculty affiliate at the University of Michigan’s RacismLab; research scientist at the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR); editorial board member of the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation (JTD), Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, and Psychological Science; and co-editor of the upcoming special issue on intersectional oppression and dissociation in JTD.