Lindsay Cannon (She/Her), Sociology, lmcannon@wisc.edu
Lindsay Cannon is a sociologist and demographer with research interests in health and gender. Her mixed methods research focuses on reproductive health and gender-based violence, applying trauma-informed, survivor-centered, and reproductive justice frameworks. Lindsay’s NIH and Society of Family Planning-funded dissertation work investigates how birthing people with chronic health conditions make decisions about pregnancy and parenting in light of constrained choices. This work explores how racial and socioeconomic (dis)advantage interact with chronic health conditions to produce differential gaps between fertility desires and achieved fertility, using both qualitative and demographic methods. Lindsay’s other streams of research focus on gender-based violence and educational attainment, intimate partner violence and fertility, reproductive and contraceptive coercion, forensic nurse exams, and reproductive health among women who use substances. Lindsay holds bachelor’s degrees in Neuroscience and Psychology from The Ohio State University and Master of Public Health and Master of Social Work degrees from the University of Michigan.
Caro Cruys, MSW
Caroline Cruys is a PhD student in the Social Welfare program through the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They completed their bachelor’s in sociology and master’s of social work degrees at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Before continuing their education, Caroline worked as a clinical mental health social worker and therapist, primarily providing individual and group therapy to adolescents and adults who identify as queer and/or transgender and those with current criminal legal system involvement. Their research focuses primarily on understanding and improving the subjective and material conditions of queer and transgender youth and adults, with intersecting interests in sexual violence response and prevention, state violence prevention, sexual health education, and sexual and gender identity formation. Caroline has additionally worked as a sexual assault advocate, primarily providing support to folks during forensic sexual assault examinations and working to improve this process for queer and trans survivors.
Naman Gupta (He/Him), Computer Science, n@cs.wisc.edu
Website: naman.github.io
Naman is a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison collaborating with the MadS&P Security & Privacy and Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI). He is advised by Prof. Rahul Chatterjee in ChatRG lab and closely collaborate with Prof. Kate Walsh in Preventing Interpersonal Violence and Overcoming Trauma (PIVOT) lab. His primary research interests lie at the intersection of computer security, privacy, sociology and psychology from a feminist and trauma-informed perspective. Specifically, he works on critiquing and designing safe and usable technological interventions for the at-risk populations like the survivors of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence. Further, he volunteers for the Madison Tech Clinic. He cares about reclaiming agency, privacy and anonymity from the hands of corporate overlords.
Padideh Hassanpour (She/Her), Psychology, padideh.hassanpour@wisc.edu
Website: https://pivotlab.psych.wisc.edu
Padideh is a clinical psychology doctoral student. Her interests center on understanding the psychological effects of sexual violence (e.g., shame) and their role in the development of and treatment for post-trauma psychopathology. She is interested in developing and strengthening trauma-informed interventions for survivors with diverse identities.
Linnea Hjelm (She/Her), Civil Society and Community Research, hjelm@wisc.edu
Website: https://humanecology.wisc.edu/staff/hjelm-linnea/
Linnea explores youth leadership in local community-based sexual violence prevention efforts. She continues a partnership with the RCC Sexual Violence Resource Center to implement participatory and youth-engaged program evaluation of a co-created primary prevention curriculum in high schools and colleges/universities in Dane County.
Stephanie Ward (She/Her), Psychology, sbward@wisc.edu
Website: https://pivotlab.psych.wisc.edu
Stephanie is a clinical psychology doctoral student. She studies the intersection of sexual violence, substance use, and psychopathology, with a particular interest in the perpetration of substance-facilitated sexual aggression.
Laura Zimmerman (She/Her), Social Work, lszimmerman@wisc.edu
Website: https://socwork.wisc.edu/
Laura is a doctoral student in the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work. She studies mental health and mental illness, gender-based violence, intersectionality and critical theories.