Thank you for being here.
First, let me tell you a bit about myself. I’m Joli (they/them/theirs). I am an empathy enthusiast, contradiction collector, and a passionate educator with over a decade of experience. Some of the identities that inform my social positionally and shape my worldview include being a neuroqueer, Italian-American, non-binary, chronic pain managing New Yorker.
But truthfully, there’s a lot more to me than that sentence.
Learners of mine are incredible people. They include higher education professionals, college students*, medical professionals, sexual violence prevention and response teams, law enforcement personnel, building/construction tradespeople, corporate leadership, fitness instructors, and various clinical** teams— from all across the country! I also have the profound opportunity to facilitate learning among parents, partners, social activist communities, book clubs, and more!
In all of these circumstances — no matter how different the details— I am always teaching about how we can all have safe, fulfilling relationships.
And I love it.
*including athletes, Greek life, student leaders, student groups, international, and on-boarding students on the graduate undergraduate levels
**including social workers, psychotherapists, speech language pathologists, body workers and other mental health professionals
Education Ethos
Universal Pursuits
Safety: Physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual safety are entitlements even if they are not guaranteed
Love: Behaving in support of our own or someone else’s safety, authenticity, and liberation from oppression.
Relational Pursuits
Individual Pursuits
Allyship: Support the liberation of others from individual prejudice and oppressive systems through action.
Equity: Relational energy and labor is adaptable, reciprocal, and voluntary; professional energy and labor are properly compensated for.
Accountability: An opportunity for healing; the privilege of growth; a personal responsibility with far reaching community impact.
Pleasure: Physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual experiences of joy.
Embodiment: Presence with and connection to an entire present experience— physically, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually.
Courage: Ability to behave with integrity even when experiencing discomfort.
Qualified.
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Master of Education in Human Sexuality, Widener University
Bachelor of Arts in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Columbia University
MindBody Therapy Certification, Embodied Philosophy
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Lydia Martinez Multidisciplinary Collaboration Award , Sexual Violence Preventionist, New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault
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Our Whole Lives: Queer and Transgender Identities | Panelist | First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn | May 2022
Our Relationships, Sex & Intimacy , #HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our Culture , Podcast season 2 episode 5
No Means No, Growing Gardenias , Podcast episode 33
Being Comfortable with the Uncomfortable: Understanding & Managing Resistance: New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault, New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and New York State Department of Health, Enough is Enough Provider Meeting, June 2018 ; National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Student Summit, January 2018; National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Strategies Conference, January 2018 ; Manhattan Sexual Assault Task Force Campus Subcommittee Cultivating Safe Campuses: Intersections of Higher Education, Community-Based Organizations, & the Laws| January 2018
Exploring Masculinities | Panelist (alongside Gretchen Lynn Baldwin, Joshua Lee Elder, & Mark Steven), Columbia University Office of University Life & the School of International & Public Affairs, October 2017
Professional Pause: Self-Care for Human Sexuality Professionals, American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) Conference, June 2017
Masculinity, Media, & Sexual Violence , Panelist (alongside Sut Jhally, Byron Hurt, & Abdul Staten), Sexual Violence Response, April 2017
Rewriting the Playbook: Engaging Men in Campus Sexual Violence Prevention, American Men's Studies Association (AMSA) Conference, April 2017 ; National Sex Ed Conference, December 2016
Self-Care for Human Sexuality Professionals Round Table, National Sex Ed Conference, December 2016
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Action for Racial Justice, March 2021-March 2022, Racial Wealth Gap Simulation Facilitator, Community Pod Facilitator
Exhale to Inhale, June 2018-July 2019 , Young Professional Board Member
Cultivating Safe Campus: Intersections of Higher Education, Community-Based Organizations, & the Laws, January 2018, Manhattan Sexual Assault Task Force Campus Subcommittee, Summit Co-Chair & Organizer
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), September 2017, 2018 NASPA Strategies Conferences Program Reviewer
Manhattan Sexual Assault Task Force College Campus Subcommittee, April 2017-November 2018| Co-Chair & Summit Planning Team Member, Contributing member since January 2017
OutSmartNYC Curriculum Author, February 2016- January 2019, Lesson Plan Author & Contributor to OutSmartNYC Training Manual: “Sexual Violence Prevention & Bystander Intervention Training for Nightlight Community”, www.OutSmartNYC.org
OutSmartNYC Collective Member , February 2016- January 2019, Contributor to OutSmartNYC Training Manual: “Sexual Violence Prevention & Bystander Intervention Training for Nightlight Community”, Curriculum Facilitator, Trainer of Trainers, www.OutSmartNYC.org
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence Against Children, UNICEF/United Nations, June-August 2012, Summer Communications Intern
Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW), 2009, 2010, 2011, Summer Intern