Dr. Bedera’s Biography comes from her website:  https://www.nicolebedera.com/

[Dr. Nicole Bedera is] a sociologist studying how sexual violence is much bigger than the people involved in a sexual assault. [Her] work focuses on how social structures, organizations, and culture create a world where violence is predictable and ordinary. By identifying how violence is produced, [she] can identify interventions to make our society safer.

Sociologist, Researcher, Author

Over the past decade, [she has] studied sexual violence in a variety of contexts, including college campuses and LGBTQ communities. [Her] work has been published in leading academic journals and featured in The New York Times, NPR, Time Magazine, Slate, and Teen Vogue. [She is] an Affiliated Educator at the Center for Institutional Courage. To put [her] research into action, [she] co-founded Beyond Compliance with Dr. Jacqueline Cruz.

[Her] first book, On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence, was published with the University of California Press this fall.