In 2006, Jeff received his Master of Arts in Women’s Studies from San Diego State University. His master’s thesis project entitled, “Off the Page and Onto the Stage: Performing Feminist Theory to Prevent Sexual Violence,” developed pedagogical and performance strategies for communicating to diverse audiences how feminist theories—including the intersectionality of oppression—should be utilized in sexual violence prevention. In 2008, Jeff’s thesis became the basis for his documentary film, “A Way From Violence” (scheduled for release in June, 2010).

For the past ten years, Jeff has worked as an activist and public speaker, providing hundreds of presentations and performances in the fields of sexual violence, masculinity, relationship violence, gender normativity, violence prevention, feminist thought, and the intersectionality of oppression. Jeff has done extensive work with the male community to engage and involve men in violence prevention, including his work as co-chair of the San Diego Men’s Leadership Forum (a sub-committee of the San Diego Domestic Violence Council).

Currently, Jeff is a faculty lecturer at San Diego State University where he teaches Popular Culture and Counseling, a course which focuses on the ways that popular culture informs and impacts our identities. Jeff is also adjunct faculty at Southwestern College where he teaches Oral Communication and supervises the student group Men Ending Violence.

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Carol Mosely, M.A.
DIRECTOR
Carol Mosely served as Director of the Rape Prevention Education Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1995 – 2008. Her duties included providing advocacy for any member of the campus community affected by sexual or interpersonal violence, and coordinating prevention education for the campus. She worked with an average of 75 cases each year -- sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, stalking and sexual harassment. Services included crisis counseling, legal accompaniment and referrals to campus and community resources. She coordinated education presentations for an average of 10,000 people each year, working closely with students and student groups to develop appropriate education for their peers. She was available to staff, faculty and administrators as a consultant on specific cases and policy and procedure decisions. She served on the Santa Barbara campus and the UC system federal Clery Act compliance groups.

During her years at UCSB, Carol was a member of the Santa Barbara County Sexual Assault Response Team, meeting monthly with representatives from law enforcement, the District Attorney’s Office and community advocacy groups. Carol was also appointed by Governor Gray Davis as a member of the California Campus Sexual Assault Task Force in 2003. The Task Force brought together leaders in higher education who produced the Campus Blueprint to End Sexual Assault. In 2002 she was invited to give testimony at the California State Assembly Committee on Higher Education hearing on violence against women on campus.

From 1999 until 2008, Carol served as a statewide trainer for the California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) where she worked with groups to design the curriculum for training law enforcement officers responding to sexual assaults and an extended curriculum for first responders to sexual assaults in a campus community. She was subsequently a Subject Matter Expert teaching the courses in a team with a law enforcement officer and a prosecutor.

Prior to her work at the University of California, Carol was a self-defense instructor and community educator for the Northeast Georgia Rape Crisis Center, and, before that, manager of My Sister's Place, a 24-bed shelter for battered women and their children in Washington, D.C. She started her career in anti-violence work as a volunteer self-defense instructor with the DC Self-Defense Karate Association. She learned not only physical techniques but philosophies about and approaches to ending violence against women. During her career she has contributed to the evolution of those philosophies and approaches.

Carol received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and was a newspaper reporter for several years. She currently lives in Montgomery, Alabama where she is working with an organization addressing the needs of at-risk teenage girls.

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Tisha Martz
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER & SENIOR CONSULTANT
Tisha received her B.A. in Women’s Studies from UC Santa Barbara. Over the last decade she has been doing violence prevention and advocacy work, including extensive crisis intervention with survivors.

Tisha is a certified crisis counselor from the California Office of Emergency Service, and has extensive experience developing training curriculum to meet OES standards. She has trained and certified hundreds of volunteers, and has collaborated with law enforcement and SANE.

Tisha has also worked in grant and contract management for over five years.

Patience Collom
INTERN
Patience is a senior at San Diego State University majoring in psychology. Upon graduating she plans to get her teaching credential and then pursue her masters degree. Ultimately her goal is to work with troubled youth in some capacity. She is working to educate and involve young women in violence prevention.

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