Project Team & Advisory Group
Project Team
Paige Walker
PROJECT DIRECTOR / PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Paige Walker (she/her) directs the formation, implementation, and conclusion of the National Forum on the Prevention of Cyber Sexual Abuse, drawing upon her cyber sexual abuse research, digital literacy instruction experience, and inclusive leadership practices to shape the project and guide its trauma-informed output. Paige is the Head of Digital Initiatives at Tisch Library, Tufts University as well as the co-chair of the Digital Library Federation’s Privacy and Ethics in Technology Working Group.
Chelcie Juliet Rowell
CO-INVESTIGATOR
Chelcie Juliet Rowell (she/her) contributes to meeting design and curriculum development for the National Forum, drawing upon expertise in digital pedagogy, outreach and instruction in academic libraries, and inclusive meeting facilitation. Chelcie is the Head of Digital Scholarship at Tisch Library, Tufts University. In this role she focuses on illuminating knowledge systems and power relations surrounding any particular digital tool or digital method, as well as empowering campus community members to become critical digital creators and users.
Adam Jazairi
CO-INVESTIGATOR
Adam Jazairi (he/him) is a software engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, where he centers his work on advancing equity, inclusion, and social justice in tech and libraries. He provides technical expertise and a background in multiple functional areas of library work, including public services and preservation.
Aliya Reich
CONFERENCE MANAGER
Aliya Reich (she/her) manages the planning and implementation of the virtual Forum conference event.
Erin Mabee
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Erin Mabee is an artist, designer, and performer originally from the greater Boston area. She is fascinated with the unconventional in design; her work leans quirky and unexpected as she loves to infuse her personality in her work. At a young age Erin found her voice through theater and performance which is where her love for self-expression and the arts derives from. Her early design studies began in Costume Design and eventually led her to Graphic Design. She loves to experiment and find new ways of making in her work. When she is not designing she is either performing comedy, watching horror movies, or eating cheese.
mensen.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
mensen. is an artist, designer, writer, educator, facilitator and creative strategist. Her public practice is rooted in illustration, muralism, poetry, hope and defiance. Through participatory storytelling and design, she collaborates with groups working on Movement and social justice campaigns, memory-keeping, collective healing and liberation. mensen. believes everyone is inherently creative, art is about ideas, making is a form of alchemy that can transform relationships, and above all: hope is the antidote.
Princess Manuel
MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL
Princess Manuel, LMSW (she/they/siya/sila) is a NYC-based licensed therapist who supports individuals on their healing journey with a trauma-informed lens, decolonization stance, and intersectionality approach. She is deeply committed to helping communities of color heal generational traumas that present itself in triggers, exhaustion, lack of motivation and low self-worth. She is interested in helping people thrive and rise above victimization and survival.
The Cyber Civil Rights Initiative
CONSULTANT
The Cyber Civil Rights Initiative is one of the nation’s preeminent nonprofit organizations working to combat online abuses that threaten civil rights and civil liberties. Their work protects vulnerable groups from the devastating harms caused by nonconsensual pornography, sextortion, and other forms of online abuse. Their efforts are focused on five main areas, including victim services, legislative reform, tech policy, research, and outreach.
Advisory Group
Nisha Mody
Nisha Mody, MLIS, MA CCC-SLP (she/her) is a Feminist Healing Coach, Writer, and Librarian. She worked as a Health & Life Sciences Librarian, serving as liaison to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and as the Associate Director of the Network of the National Library of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region. Prior to entering librarianship, Nisha worked as a speech-language pathologist with children and adults. Throughout her work, Nisha has consistently valued connection, compassion, curiosity, storytelling, and justice, all of which led her to becoming a healing coach with a trauma-informed approach. She teaches and talks about imagining and incorporating trauma-informed practices in libraries and in our everyday lives, centering the ways systems of oppression and intergenerational trauma affect us deeply. Nisha coaches people individually and in groups, and you can find out more about her at www.nishaland.com and on Instagram @healinghypegirl.
Katie Schultz
Katie Schultz, MSW, PhD (she/her) focuses her research on manifestations of violence and health equity among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations. She examines violence and associated health outcomes, including substance misuse, among AI/AN women and girls; community and cultural connectedness as protective factors; and culturally-derived interventions. A citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, she is interested in innovative conceptual and methodological research with tribal communities rooted in Indigenous knowledges and sustainable solutions by and for Native peoples.
Andrew Sta. Ana
Andrew Sta. Ana (he/they) is the Director of Law and Policy at Day One. Through direct legal services and advocacy, Andrew works to amplify the voices of young survivors and to promote healthy relationships. Nationwide, Andrew trains on dating violence, the rights of young people, serving LGBTQ survivors, and cyberharassment. He has served as an expert trainer with the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence. In 2019, the National LGBT Bar Association recognized Andrew as one of the nation’s best LGBTQ+ Lawyers under 40. In 2018, Andrew was appointed to the Biden Foundation’s advisory council on Violence against Women. In 2016, Andrew became an adjunct clinical professor at New York Law School to direct the nation’s first law school based legal clinic to serve victims of cyberharassment. In 2015, Andrew was named a Movement Maker by the NoVo Foundation's Move to End Violence. He is a proud graduate of the City University of New York School of Law and a born and raised New Yorker.
Thriving Through
Thriving Through is a therapeutic practice that specializes in working with those who have experienced digital violence/tech facilitated abuse and intimate partner violence. Thriving Through provides therapy for individuals and groups along with advocacy work, consulting, workshops and webinars. Thriving Through was developed by Francesca Rossi, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over sixteen years of experience working in mental health, substance abuse, housing, advocacy and community organizing. Francesca’s work has focused on stabilizing those in crisis and learning how to live and rebuild afterwards in community. Thriving Through is dedicated to ending gender-based violence by supporting those who are directly impacted. Thriving Through Life. Thriving Through Trauma. Thriving Through Happiness.
Shana M. Ware
Shana M. Ware, M.S.Ed., NCC (she/her) is a nationally recognized survivor advocate, violence preventionist, organizational leader, presenter, published scholar practitioner, and clinically trained and nationally certified counselor with experiences totaling a decade in advocacy, case management, institutional leadership, and prevention work at public and private institutions. As a scholar practitioner, her work focuses on survivor-centered, trauma informed advocacy and prevention strategies.