Domestic Violence Education Lecture

Jackson Katz, Ph.D., a leader in domestic violence education recognized for his work with the National Football League, Major League Baseball, and U.S. Army Personnel in Iraq, will present at Cabrini College on Tuesday, Oct. 9.

An expert on media and masculinity, Katz co-founded the multiracial, mixed-gender Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. Since 1997, he and other MVP staff have trained coaches and players with several teams in the NFL and in MLB, and U.S. Army personnel in Iraq, as Katz was a member of the U.S. Secretary of Defense’s Task Force on Domestic Violence in the military from 2000 to 2003.

Katz is the author of “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help” (Sourcebooks, 2006), and he writes a blog on masculinities and politics on the Huffington Post. He is the first man to earn a minor in women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Katz earned a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a doctorate in cultural studies and education from the University of California Los Angeles.