Rachel A. Stewart, Ed.M.  

is a speaker, educator, survivor advocate, and sexual and relationship violence prevention specialist. 

Rachel's full-time professional role is as the Director of the SHARPP Center for Interpersonal Violence Awareness, Prevention, and Advocacy at the University of New Hampshire. Previously, Rachel served as the Director of Sexual Violence Prevention and Advocacy at Connecticut College, with additional roles as Coordinator of the Gund Intergroup Dialogue Project and as Adjunct Faculty in the Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies department. Rachel has also held roles as the Interpersonal Violence Prevention Coordinator at Bucknell University as the Interpersonal Violence Prevention Coordinator, and the Graduate Coordinator for Student Leadership Development at the Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life.  

Rachel began their work in the field in 2011 as an undergraduate Peer Educator within the University of Connecticut’s Violence Against Women Prevention Program and by co-founding the student organization Revolution Against Rape and UConn’s annual March to End Victim Blaming event. Rachel has spent much of their career focusing on the advancement of anti-sexual violence work specifically within higher education, spending four years on the Leadership Council of the Campus Advocacy and Prevention Professionals Association, as well as time on the leadership team of the NASPA Sexual and Relationship Violence Prevention, Education, and Response Knowledge Community.

Rachel is also currently a doctoral student at Plymouth State University in the Higher Education Administrative Leadership program. Their dissertation explores how survivors of campus sexual assault and dating violence make meaning out of interactions disclosing to campus administrators, and how those interactions contribute to the survivors’ experiences of institutional betrayal or institutional support. 

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