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Kate Lockwood Harris

Kate Lockwood Harris is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota and a McKnight Presidential Fellow. She uses critical, feminist, and intersectional perspectives to answer the question, “How are violence and communication related?” Dr. Harris assumes that violence is a symptom of inequity, so she pays close attention to gender, race, and related systems of difference. Her research on organizational responses to sexual assault has been widely published in management, communication, cultural studies, and feminist outlets.

This work, along with related projects on the power of writing, reflexivity, and language to sustain and transform violence, has won accolades at regional, national, and international conferences. An expert in interpersonal and organizational trauma, she consults with organizations to develop violence prevention programs. Her first book, Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses (Oxford University Press), was recognized with the 2020 Book Award from the European Group for Organizational Studies.”

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Jasmine Lipford

Jasmine Lipford currently works at the NBA as an Associate Vice President overseeing all brand, fan, and social responsibility efforts as the Head of Marketing for the NBA G League.  She came to the NBA following her time at Coca-Cola where she led branding and innovation for the POWERADE business as Senior Brand Manager. Before joining Coca-Cola, Jasmine was in Seattle, WA, where she worked at Amazon as a Senior Marketing Manager on the Global Non-Prime customer team. She also worked at Anheuser-Busch in New York, participating in the company’s Global MBA leadership development program and leading marketing efforts for the Busch Beer family of brands.   Jasmine spent her early career in advertising at Ogilvy & Mather, where she participated in the agency’s acclaimed associate rotational program and later served a number of Fortune-500 clients as a Marketing Strategist while also acting as the company’s Black Professional Network’s co-president.

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Dr. Donna Lopiano

Dr. Donna Lopiano is the President and founder of Sports Management Resources (SMR), a consulting firm that focuses on bringing the knowledge of experienced, expert former athletics directors to assist scholastic and collegiate athletics departments in solving growth and development challenges. She is an adjunct professor of Sports Management at Southern Connecticut State University and president of The Drake Group, a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to preserve academic integrity in higher education from the corrosive aspects of commercialized college sports and protect the health and wellbeing of college athletes.

Dr. Lopiano is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Women’s Sports Foundation (1992-2007) and was named one of “The 10 Most Powerful Women in Sports” by Fox Sports. The Sporting News has also listed her as one of “The 100 Most Influential People in Sports.” The Institute for International Sport named Lopiano among the “100 Most Influential Sports Educators in America.” She has been nationally and internationally recognized for her leadership as an athletics administrator and work advocating for gender equity in sports by the International Olympic Committee, the NCAA, the National Association for Girls and Women in Sports, the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.  Lopiano served for 18 years as the University of Texas at Austin Director of Women’s Athletics and is past-president of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. At Texas, she constructed what many believed the premiere women’s athletics program in the country; twice earning the top program in the nation award. All eight UT sports were consistently ranked in the nation’s top ten in Division I where they earned 18 national title in six different sports, produced 51 individual national champions, 57 Southwest Conference championships and 395 All-American athletes, dozens among them Olympians and world champions. Ninety percent of women athletes who exhausted their athletic eligibility at Texas received a baccalaureate degree. Prior to Texas, Lopiano served as an Assistant Professor and Assistant Athletic Director at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Recognized as one of the foremost national experts on gender equity in sport, Lopiano has testified about Title IX and gender equity before three Congressional committees, served as a consultant to the U.S. Office for Civil Rights Department of Health, Education and Welfare Title IX Task Force and an expert witness in over 30 court cases. Dr. Lopiano has also served as a consultant to school districts, institutions of higher education and state education agencies on Title IX compliance and to domestic and international sport organizations on program development, governance and strategic planning. She received her bachelor’s degree from Southern Connecticut State University, her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California and is the recipient of five honorary doctoral degrees. She has coached men’s and women’s volleyball, women’s basketball and softball and the Italian national women’s softball team. As an athlete, she participated in 26 national championships in four sports and was a nine-time All-American at four different positions in softball, playing on six national championship teams. She is a member of the National Sports Hall of Fame, the National Softball Hall of Fame and the Connecticut and Texas Women’s Halls of Fame, among others

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Allison Robinson

Allison Robinson is the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Women’s History and Public History at the New-York Historical Society. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago and an M.A. from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. As part of her work at the Center for Women’s History, Dr. Robinson co-curated Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field, an immersive exhibition exploring fifty years of Title IX activism in sports equity, campus safety, classroom education, and political action on Capitol Hill. She and her colleagues also arranged a virtual conference about the subject, featuring scholars and activists involved since the legislation’s inception. Finally, as Editor-in-chief of the blog Women at the Center, Dr. Robinson edited a suite of articles examining the legacy of Title IX and discussing the curatorial process for this exhibition. Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field was open through September 4, 2022.