Dr Apryl Alexander - Making Research Public: Research as Advocacy

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Apryl Alexander is the Metrolina Medical Foundation Distinguished Scholar and an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at UNC Charlotte. A recognized expert in sexual abuse treatment programs, her research has been published in leading journals, including Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice; Criminal Justice Review; Child Maltreatment; Journal of Child Sexual Abuse; Journal of Sexual Aggression; and Sexual Abuse. She currently serves on the editorial board for Criminal Justice and Behavior and as an editorial consultant for the Journal of Black Psychology.

Dr. Alexander was the co-founder and former co-director of the University of Denver’s Prison Arts Initiative, a program providing therapeutic, educational creative arts programming to incarcerated men and women in Colorado State prisons. She has served as a Board Member for a number of different nonprofit organizations. In 2020, Dr. Alexander was unanimously appointed to the Denver Citizen Oversight Board (COB) by the Denver City Council and served a two-year term.

Currently, she serves on the Transformational Community Engagement and Collaboration (TCEC) Advisory Board for the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CCASA) and the Wisdom Keeper Advisory Committee for the WINGS Foundation. She is also an Advisory Board for Breaking Code Silence, an organization dedicated to ending the troubled teen industry.

https://www.ted.com/talks/apryl_alexander_sexual_violence_is_preventable_here_s_how/

Dr. Anica Talks Activism with Dr. Apryl Alexander

http://www.aprylalexander.com/

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