Speaker Bios | MASOC Campus Conference
Meg Bossong, MS
Incoming Executive Director, MASOC
Meg has spent her entire professional career in the realms of sexual violence prevention and response, including over a decade of work in higher education with students and professionals. Meg held several prevention and community mobilization roles with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC), where she worked to train the professional and student staff of a large range of Boston-area colleges and universities. Meg also was the Director of Intimate Violence Prevention & Response and Health Education at Williams College. There, she incorporated leading edge research on problem sexual behaviors in late adolescents into curriculum design and student support, situational prevention through environmental design, and restorative and transformative justice practices into prevention and response. She was a founding leader of the Campus Advocacy and Prevention Professionals Association (CAPPA) and has been a regular presenter at numerous national conferences.
Joan Tabachnick, MBA
Executive Director, MASOC
Joan Tabachnick is thrilled to co-lead the STARRSA training initiative at Klancy Street with Jay Wilgus. Joan brings over 30 years of experience developing educational materials and innovative sexual violence prevention programs for national, state and local organizations. Her primary focus is on preventing the perpetration of sexually harmful behaviors, particularly in adolescents and young adults. Joan is a fellow of ATSA (Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse), of PIRC (Prevention Innovations Research Center) and just completed a fellowship with the US Department of Justice, SMART Office with a focus on preventing the perpetration of campus sexual misconduct.
She is continuing her consulting practice as well as her commitment to opening the door for healing and prevention for those at risk to cause harm.
Debby Herbenick, Ph.D., MPH
Topic: Rough Sex and Choking/Strangulation: Updates from College Student and US Nationally Representative Surveys
Dr. Debby Herbenick is an internationally recognized sexual and reproductive health professor, researcher, and educator. She is a Provost Professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health and director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion. For more than 20 years, she has dedicated her efforts to understanding how people experience their bodies and sexual lives. Among her 200+ peer-reviewed scientific publications, she has published on population-level sexual health issues (including Zika knowledge and adolescent/young adult sexuality education), college sexual health, and changing sexual behavior trends. Dr. Herbenick has also developed and validated measurement scales to assess genital self-image (which can be thought of as how people feel about their genitals and is relevant to people’s willingness to seek healthcare) as well as sexual pleasure.
David Prescott, LICSW
Topic: Responding to Sexual Misconduct: Focusing on What Works
A mental health practitioner of 40 years, David Prescott is the Director of the Safer Society Continuing Education Center. Mr. Prescott is the author and editor of 25 books in the areas of understanding and improving services to at-risk clients. Mr. Prescott is best known for his work in the areas of understanding, assessing, and treating sexual violence and trauma, including with adolescents and young adults. Mr. Prescott is the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Contribution Award from the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA), the 2018 recipient of the National Adolescent Perpetration Network’s C. Henry Kempe Lifetime Achievement award, and the 2022 recipient of the Fay Honey Knopp Award from the New York State Alliance for the Prevention of Sexual Abuse and New York State ATSA. He also served as ATSA President in 2008-09. Mr. Prescott currently trains and lectures around the world. His published work has been translated into Japanese, Korean, German, French, Polish, Dutch, and other languages. He has served on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals. He has been the co-author of the monthly NEARI and MASOC newsletters since 2007, which are read by several thousand professionals who work with adolescents who have sexually abused. Since 2011, he has served as Co-Blogger for ATSA’s Sexual Abuse blog, which has been read over 850,000 times and was recently rated among the top blogs in the world on the topic.
Jay Wilgus, JD, MDR
Topic: What Do We Mean When We Say “Respondent Support Services?” – Exploring the Field and Imagining the Future
Jay Wilgus is a lawyer, mediator, educator, and consultant who serves as Principal at Klancy Street, LLC – a specialized law, consulting and dispute resolution practice focused on helping parties find common ground. Prior to forming Klancy Street, Wilgus served as Assistant Dean of Students at the University of Utah and Director of the Office of Student Conflict Resolution at the University of Michigan. His work regularly addresses restorative justice approaches to student sexual misconduct and research-informed interventions for students with problematic sexual behavior. Wilgus holds a Master’s in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine and a J.D. from the University of Utah.
Kyla V Martin, MS
Topic: What Do We Mean When We Say “Respondent Support Services?” – Exploring the Field and Imagining the Future
Kyla Martin serves as the Confidential Resource Advisor in the Office of Prevention and Education at Northeastern University. She provides confidential, restorative-informed services for students who have been accused of any form of sexual violence and/or who have concerns about beliefs and behaviors that could lead to harm. Kyla has also supported Sexual Violence Prevention and Response initiatives at Louisiana State University, Tufts University, Wheaton College, and Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She identifies as a mixed-race woman with disabilities and integrates her identity, education, and lived experiences into her work with students and colleagues.
Nichole M. Scaglione, Ph.D., CHES
Topic: Understanding Alcohol’s Role in Sexual Violence on College Campuses: Implications for Prevention & Response
Dr. Scaglione is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Education and Behavior at the University of Florida. She has over 10 years of experience leading federally-funded (i.e., DoD, CDC, NIH) projects aimed at reducing substance misuse and sexual violence in adolescents and young adults. Her research combines health behavior theory and mobile technologies to examine decision-making processes associated with drinking, drug use, and sexual risk, both globally and at the event level (during specific drinking/substance use occasions). She uses findings from her etiological work to develop and test interventions that target these processes to reduce individual and community risk for sexual violence. Prior to joining the HEB faculty, Dr. Scaglione was a public health scientist at RTI International where she played a major role in the development and feasibility testing of a tailored sexual assault prevention program to be delivered in the context of U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training. Her ongoing work includes an investigator-initiated DoD grant to expand and adapt this training for the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Rachel King, Ph.D.
Restorative Responses to Sexual Harm on Campus: Assessing Responsible Student Readiness
Dr. Rachel King is a restorative justice practitioner at RK Resolution LLC, specializing in issues of harassment and sexual misconduct in higher education. She has extensive experience facilitating restorative justice conferences in community and school-based programs and has held numerous roles in college administration, including Title IX Coordinator and Associate Dean of Students. Rachel provides training to schools around the country on how to take a restorative approach to cases of sexual misconduct, including through the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women campus grant program and the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA).
Toni McMurphy, M.A.
Topic: Restorative Responses to Sexual Harm on Campus: Assessing Responsible Student Readiness
Toni McMurphy is the Founder of Infinite Impact, a consulting firm dedicated to transforming communities, conflicts, and culture through restorative practices. She serves as a Visiting Scholar at the University of San Diego, as a contributor to “Applying Restorative Justice to Campus Sexual Misconduct”, and on the international training and consulting team at the USD Center for Restorative Justice. As a consultant, coach, trainer, facilitator, and speaker, Toni has spent the last 30 years training and coaching nearly 68,000 people in over 230 organizations across diverse sectors including health care, higher education, and industry. Toni specializes in the design of customized restorative processes and facilitating win-win outcomes in emotionally charged situations. She is an expert in creating safe and brave spaces that foster authentic dialogue around harm and accountability and unpack the distinction between intent and impact. Toni is known for inspiring people to bring out the best in themselves and each other in challenging situations and regularly facilitates courageous conversation in a wide variety of settings on myriad topics. Recent projects include facilitating restorative responses to sexual misconduct cases, responding to bias incidents on campus and in communities where racial tensions are high, ripples from the current conflict in the Middle East, and facilitating difficult conversations between students and faculty/administration, management and employees, and athletic teams. Toni served as Vice President of Culture and Campus Life for St. Louis College of Pharmacy, where she successfully integrated restorative practices in Title IX cases, Student Conduct, Bias Incident Response, and numerous other conflicts.
Tyffani Monford Dent, Psy.D.
Topic: The Privilege is Not Ours: Addressing the Role of Race, Power & Privilege in Our Work
Dr. Tyffani Monford Dent is a licensed psychologist, trainer, and author. Her primary areas of interests are sexual violence prevention and intervention on the continuum, the role of intersectionality in the lives of Black and Brown girls/women, racial trauma & radical healing, social justice work within the mental health profession, culturally informed work with those within the juvenile justice and Child Welfare systems, and diversity, equity, inclusion practices within nonprofit organizations. She has been featured on local and national news programs addressing the importance of emotional wellness in Black communities, mental health in times of national crisis, and the school-to-prison pipeline’s impact on Black Girls. She is a former recipient of the Visionary Voice Award by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, has been recognized by Who’s Who In Black Cleveland twice, is a 2022 Career Mastered Emerging Leader Honoree, as well as being deemed a Radical Truthteller by the Truth Telling Project in Ferguson, Missouri.
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2024 MASOC Campus Conference
Preventing and Responding to the Perpetration of Sexual Misconduct
June 12, 2024 | Virtual Event | $98 | 5 CEs
This one-day event brings together nationally recognized speakers focusing on preventing first time perpetration of sexual misconduct as well as the variety of responses to a report of sexual misconduct. Over the course of the day, we will provide an overview of what is known and not known about the students who engage in sexually problematic and abusive behaviors from multiple perspectives.
