BOARD MEMBERS

Katie Koestner is the first woman in the United States to speak out nationally and publicly as the victim of campus “date” rape at age 18. Katie has been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine, The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC Nightly News, CNBC Talk Live, CNN, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Later Today, MSNBC, Entertainment Tonight and other national television programs. Katie is the subject of an HBO movie and has lectured for over 5000 schools and organizations in North America and around the world.

Amy serves as the Assistant Director for Take Back The Night. Amy coordinates the biannual TBTN Global Virtual Event and manages the TBTN Gear Shop. She provides technical direction to participants and volunteers for national TBTN projects and events, such as the Shine Your Light Yoga Festival. With a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Sciences and professional experience in the medical field, Amy brings a passion for wellness to TBTN. Amy is also the Client Services Director for Campus Outreach Services.

Susan is Associate Professor and Program Director in the Higher Education Master’s Program at Merrimack College. She was the founding director of the Harvard Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and served in various victim advocacy and prevention roles over fifteen years on four different college campuses. Dr. Marine’s research focuses on the ways that sexual violence prevention educators, advocates and activists engage in changework. She is co-editor of the forthcoming book, Collaborating for change: Transforming cultures to end gender-based violence in higher education.

Schenika Quattlebaum, is the Founder/CEO of Natalia Me-gan Beauty, a global cosmetic company. Mrs. Quattlebaum, a domestic violence survivor, has made it her mission to be an advocate for domestic violence and abuse of any form. She has been featured in Vogue UK, Vanity Fair UK, Glamour UK, Size Overrated and Upscale magazine. In 2022, Entrepreneur Herald named her one of the “Top 30 Women Entrepreneurs to Take Inspiration.” Mrs. Quattlebaum is the recipient of the “She Is Monumental” award presented to her during Women’s History Month in 2022 by Radio One and Majic 102.3/92.7. Mrs. Quattlebaum has appeared on Fox 5, ABC7 and Cleo TV.

Luoluo Hong, PhD, MPH, is the inaugural Vice President for Student Engagement & Well-Being (Senior Student Affairs Officer) at Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as Adjunct Professor of the Practice, School of Psychology. She has been an activist, educator and scholar for violence prevention and social justice since being raped during her first-year of college. Her first job was for a rape crisis center in Connecticut. She then began a 30-year higher education career working in public health and student affairs and has served at six campuses and one system office prior to Georgia Tech.

Lisa joined the UIC faculty in 1992. She is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice and Head of the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice. Lisa is also affiliated faculty in the Departments of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies. She has served on a range of committees, including the College Executive Committee and University Senate and Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of LGBT Issues). She has been a member of DRS since 2009.

Nancy is a professor in two interdisciplinary fields — Justice Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies — at Northeastern Illinois University. Nancy’s priorities as a professor are to help students make sense of our social world through the lenses of social justice and intersectionality. Her current teaching areas include social inequalities (class, race, gender, sexualities, disabilities, immigration status, etc.), globalization, human rights, social policies, and preparing students for, and supervising internships in the community. Nancy’s current praxis is in human rights education, civic engagement, workers’ rights and reproductive justice.

Wendy has her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is currently in independent practice in Kensington, CA, specializing in the treatment of sexual dysfunctions, couples therapy, PTSD related to domestic violence, sexual abuse and sexual assault, compulsive sexuality, depression, and anxiety disorders. Dr. Stock served as Associate Director of the Postdoctoral Master of Science Program in Clinical Psychopharmacology at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University. She has over 20 professional publications on feminist approaches to clinical psychology, sexuality, sexual abuse and trauma, and psychopharmacology.