Conversation: Sexual Assault on Campus

The Women's and Gender Studies program (WGS), The University of Tulsa Institute of Trauma, Adversity, and Injustice (TITAN), and Graduate Students in Psychology (GRASP) are pleased to present Kristen Lombardi as a part of the first annual TITAN speaker series.

Through this conversation, the audience will gain insight into the complexities of sexual assault as it occurs on college campuses, including how sexual assault on college campuses has been handled.

Kristen Lombardi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the Center for Public Integrity since 2007. She has been a journalist for more than 17 years. Her investigation into campus rape causes for the Center won the Robert F. Kennedy Award and the Dart Award in 2011, as well as the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service in 2010, among other recognitions. Findings from this report helped lead to Obama's task force on sexual assault. Her work for the Center has been honored by the Investigative Reporters and Editors, the National Press Foundation, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the John B. Oakes Environmental Prize, and the Society for Environmental Journalists. She was one of 24 journalists awarded a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard University in 2011-2012. She also won a fellowship from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma for her coverage of child sexual abuse, and is active in the Dart Society.

Elana Newman is the Research Director at the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma. As McFarlin Professor of Psychology at the University of Tulsa, she has conducted research on a variety of topics regarding the psychological and physical response to traumatic life events, assessment of PTSD in children and adults, journalism and trauma, and understanding the impact of participating in trauma-related research from the trauma survivor's perspective. She is a past president of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, the world’s premier organization dedicated to trauma treatment, education, research, public policy concerns and theoretical formulation. Her work in journalism and trauma has focused on occupational health of journalists and she and her students have several studies underway examining the effects of journalistic practice upon consumers. She was the key investigator on the Dart Center's research survey on photojournalists' exposure to trauma. She co-directed the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma’s first satellite office in NYC after 9-11.

Please email Rachel Micol with any questions.