If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault, call 504-920-9900 to speak privately with someone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Or, fill out our reporting form.
To learn more about the changes to the University Sexual Misconduct/Title IX resolution processes, please visit our update page.
September 23, 2020
6:00 - 8:00 PM
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required to access the event online. Register here.
The 6th Annual Shifting the Paradigm is an opportunity for the Tulane community to come together to learn about the impact of sexual violence on our campus and communities. This year’s event will feature a conversation about supporting students of color with a panel of scholars and practitioners who conduct research, advocate for, and work with communities of color to prevent and respond to sexual violence. Prior to the panel, Meredith Smith, Assistant Provost for Title IX and Clery Compliance, will share campus sexual misconduct data from the past year. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend and learn how we can play our part.
Submit questions for panelists here.
Shifting the Narrative: Sexual Violence Prevention and Supporting Students of Color
The purpose of this forum is to hear from scholars and practitioners who conduct research, advocate for and work with communities of color to prevent and respond to sexual violence. Panelists will explore the following:
Featuring:
Moderator: Samantha Francois, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Tulane University School of Social Work
Dr. Samantha Francois is an Assistant Professor at Tulane University’s School of Social Work with a specialization in adolescent development and vulnerability and resilience in African American populations. Her research interests include microsystem influences (specifically, neighborhoods and schools) on life-stage outcomes in African American youth, macrosystem influences (specifically, forms of structural, institutional, and systemic oppression) on community violence, and African American cultural assets that promote resilience. More specifically, her work examines the relationships between multi-system risk contributors and protective factors and mental health, educational, and quality of life outcomes for African Americans in urban geographies.
Panelist: Jordan West, Ph.D., Director of Diversity & Inclusion Education, George Washington University
Jordan S. West, pronouns she, her, and hers, is the Inaugural Director of Diversity & Inclusion Education at The George Washington University in the Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement in the Office of the Provost. Jordan’s experience and continued research interests focus on campus climate, narrative and storytelling as a method, and how People of Color and individuals from historically marginalized identities work towards liberation while in higher education through the lens of Black Feminist Theory and Critical Race Theory.
Panelist: María Cristina Pacheco Alcalá, Project Manager Casa de Esperanza
María Cristina Pacheco Alcalá is a project manager with the National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities, a project of Casa de Esperanza. Ms. Alcalá is a former director and coordinator of campus program grant initiatives at the Univ. of Puerto Rico. Her areas of expertise include gender violence prevention, Title IX and Clery Act, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, dating and domestic violence, and grant management. Ms. Alcalá has over 15 years of experience working in education and prevention within communities and campuses, with youth, women, law enforcement, and faculty. She has facilitated trainings nationally and has provided technical assistance to minority-serving institutions of higher education to enhance their response to gender-based violence.
Panelist: Dr. Shantoyia (Toy) Jones, PhD, Assistant Professor, Xavier University of Louisiana
Dr. Jones is a Counseling Psychology Assistant Professor. At Xavier University. She completed her doctoral internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)-Counseling Center, where she provided psychotherapy to non-traditional diverse university students. While at UIC, she completed a year-long clinical rotation at the Marjorie Kolver Center, an agency that serves survivors of political torture seeking asylum in the states. Just prior to coming to Xavier, she was a postdoctoral fellow-multicultural apprentice and staff clinician at Loyola University Maryland Counseling Center, in Baltimore, Maryland. While working as a staff clinician at Loyola, she served as a member to many campus-community initiatives such as: Take Back the Night, the Racial Justice Working Group, Loyola-SAFE Zone, the Counseling Center's Cultural Alliance Steering Committee, ALANA's Sister to Sister circle, and as the Co-Chair of the Women of Color Retreat.
Panelist: Navila Rashid, Social Worker Consultant, Heart Women & Girls
Navila Rashid is a Bangladeshi-American forensic social worker, freelance educator & trainer, and consultant working with diverse clients. Clients include government agency staff, public defenders, non-profit agencies and community members/leaders. She provides program coordination, technical assistance, and capacity building services around advocacy, social media, digital storytelling, and gender-based violence education. She co-founded “The Cathartist”, a web-based platform for victims and survivors of sexual violence, and activists to showcase their creative works as a tool of coping and healing with trauma. Navila is also featured as a survivor in the award-winning documentary, Breaking Silence, where she addresses the nuances and experiences of being a survivor of sexual violence in a Muslim and South Asian community, and the journey towards healing.
Panelist: Felicia McGinty, Executive Vice Chancellor for Administration and Planning, Rutgers University
Dr. Felicia McGinty leads and directs day-to-day, nonacademic operations of Rutgers University-New Brunswick, including space management, infrastructure development, oversight for policy development, and other critical functions that support the student experience and advance Rutgers University–New Brunswick academic, research and service mission.
Thursday, Sept 3, 7-8:30 PM
Friday, Sept 4, 3-4:00 PM
Wednesday, Sept 9, 5-6 PM
Thursday, Sept 10, 5-6 PM
Come ask Meredith any questions you may have about the changes to Title IX and in particular, with what happens when you tell Tulane about an incident of sexual misconduct, from that first disclosure through all of the possible choices a reported victim can take. Plus, we can talk about what we have planned in the year ahead in our work to end sexual harassment and violence at Tulane. Join us on Zoom at https://tulane.zoom.us/j/98303640226
October 20, 2020
6:30 - 8:30
Virtual
The USG Annual Sexual Violence Town Hall gives students the opportunity to learn about the All In plan through an informational panel, ask questions to students and administrators in a Q&A, and interact with different resources on Sexual Violence Prevention and Response through roundtable discussions. More details to come for the 2020 event.