LUX ALPTRAUM is a writer, sex educator, and publisher of Fleshbot, the web’s foremost blog about sexuality and adult entertainment. Prior to working at Fleshbot, she worked as a sex educator at an adolescent pregnancy prevention program, an HIV pretest counselor, and founded ThatStrangeGirl, an alternative porn site, and Boinkology, a blog about sex and culture. Her writing has appeared in TheAtlantic.com, Time Out New York, Jezebel.com, SundanceChannel.com, Bizarre Magazine, Jalopnik.com, BlackbookMag.com, Best Sex Writing 2008, and GOOD Magazine. She has spoken about sexuality, the internet, and adult entertainment at Harvard University, Brown University, Yale University, NYU, Columbia University, Ohio State University, SXSW, and New York City’s Museum of Sex, and was recognized as one of 2008′s Heeb 100.
Can Porn Be Ethical?, Thursday 3/28 8-9:30PM, Sever 112
MEGAN ANDELLOUX is the founder and director of The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health, is certified as a Sexuality Educator through The American Association ofSexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, and works as a board certified Sexologist through The American College of Sexologists. She has been a regular contributor for various national media sources, a sought-after sexuality consultant for medical organizations, and an contributing author in Taking Sides, Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality; Naked At Our Age, Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex; Sex and Society; and We Got Issues. She often lectures at colleges, universities, and sexuality institutions on issues surrounding sexual pleasure, sexual health, politics, and erotic justice. Ms. Andelloux has been labeled by the press as “The Princess of Pleasure”, “The Sex Ed Warrior Queen” and was decorated with the “Vagina Warrior of the Year” from the Vagina Monologues due to her work regarding sexual communication and fear reduction.
Spring Fever: Exploring Your Sexuality, Sunday 3/25, 7:30PM, Emerson 210
JOHN BACH is a long-time Quaker and a member of the Harvard Chaplains with a call to social justice.
Sex, Faith, & Reason: The Real Hook-up, Tuesday 3/27 12-1:30PM, PBH Parlor Room
STEFANIE BOLTZ is the Manager of Youth and College Initiatives for The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. When she is not on college campuses talking about birth control and Bedsider, she is hanging out with some pretty awesome teens talking about sex and pregnancy prevention. Stefanie earned a M.P.P in Global Medical Policy from George Mason University and B.A. in Political Science from the University of California.
How to Talk To Your Doctor About Sex, Monday 3/26, 6:30-8PM, Adams Lower Common Room
SCOTT CAMPBELL is pastor at the Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, located next to Harvard Law School on Massachusetts Avenue, and is a die-hard Red Sox fan.
Sex, Faith, & Reason: The Real Hook-up, Tuesday 3/27 12-1:30PM, PBH Parlor Room
BRUCE CHURCHILL, MD, is a physician board certified in Family Medicine. He graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and completed his residency training at UMass/Worcester Medical Center. He has been a staff physician at Harvard University Health Services for the past eleven years and provides care in the Internal Medicine and Pediatrics departments at HUHS.
How to Talk To Your Doctor About Sex, Monday 3/26, 6:30-8PM, Adams Lower Common Room
BRAD EPPS is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor and former Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. He has published over a hundred articles and chapters on modern literature, film, art, architecture, queer theory, and immigration from Spain, Latin America, Catalonia, the United States, and France and is the author ofSignificant Violence: Oppression and Resistance in the Narratives of Juan Goytisolo (Oxford UP); Spain Beyond Spain: Modernity, Literary History, and National Identity (with Luis Fernández Cifuentes; Bucknell UP); Passing Lines: Immigration and Sexuality (with Bill Johnson-González and Keja Valens; Harvard UP); All About Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema (with Despina Kakoudaki: University of Minnesota Press); a special issue of Catalan Review on Barcelona and modernity, and a special issue of GLQ (with Jonathan Katz) on lesbian theorist Monique Wittig. He has taught as visiting professor or scholar in Spain (Galicia, Catalonia, the Basque Country, and Madrid), Germany, France, Chile, Cuba, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the People’s Republic of China. He is fitfully preparing two books: The Ethics of Promiscuity and Barcelona and Cinema. In 2013, after some 20 years at Harvard University, he will assume the post of Chair of Spanish at the University of Cambridge.
Can Porn Be Ethical?, Thursday 3/28 8-9:30PM, Sever 112
GREG EPSTEIN , Humanist Chaplain, grew up in Flushing, Queens, New York, “the most diverse neighborhood in the most diverse borough in the most diverse city on the planet,” as an assimilated and disinterested Reform Jew. He studied Buddhism and Taoism while at Stuyvesant High School in New York City.
Sex, Faith, & Reason: The Real Hook-up, Tuesday 3/27 12-1:30PM, PBH Parlor Room
NANCY FREY is the Mennonite Chaplain and pastor of the Mennonite Congregation in Boston and Cambridge, after spending almost ten years engaged in theological education and leadership development among African Initiated Churches in Benin.
Sex, Faith, & Reason: The Real Hook-up, Tuesday 3/27 12-1:30PM, PBH Parlor Room
NURI FRIEDLANDER is the interim Harvard Islamic Society Chaplain and a PhD candidate, The Committee for the Study of Religion, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Nuri is teaching an Arabic class this term.
Sex, Faith, & Reason: The Real Hook-up, Tuesday 3/27 12-1:30PM, PBH Parlor Room
JUDGE NANCY GERTNER is a graduate of Barnard College and Yale Law School. She has been an instructor at Yale Law School since 1998 and was appointed to the bench in 1994 by President Clinton. In 2008 she received the Thurgood Marshall Award from the American Bar Association, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, only the second woman to receive it. In 2011 she received the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Hennessey award for judicial excellence, and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brandeis University. She has written and spoken widely on various legal issues and has appeared as a keynote speaker, panelist or lecturer concerning civil rights, civil liberties, employment, criminal justice and procedural issues, throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Her autobiography, In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate, was released on April 26, 2011. Her book, The Law of Juries, co-authored with attorney Judith Mizner, was published in 1997 and updated in 2010.
Affirmative Consent and Criminal Law, Tuesday 3/27 6-8PM, Griswold 110
CHRIS GLEASON is the FourSquare or Grace Street Church Chaplain, and has an affinity for adrenalin, whether that is bungee jumping, mountain biking or swinging on a swing set with his young son.
Sex, Faith, & Reason: The Real Hook-up, Tuesday 3/27 12-1:30PM, PBH Parlor Room
Rabbanit SHARON WEISS GREENBERG (Co-Director JLIC and Orthodox Advisor) brings a wealth of experience to Harvard Hillel as a Wexner Fellow, PhD Candidate in Education and Jewish Studies at New York University and an experienced Jewish educator with successful years of teaching in the Tri-State area. Sharon received her Masters in Education from the Azrieli Graduate School for Education of Yeshiva University and held a year-long fellowship in Jewish studies at the Drisha Instute for Jewish Education in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In addition to her work in the classroom, Sharon worked for more than a decade in informal Jewish education in various leadership positions, including Head of Camp, at Camp Stone in Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania.
Guilty Pleasure, Sacred Delight: Diverse Jewish Perspectives on Sex, Monday 3/26 5-6:30PM, Rabb Hall, Hillel
MARGIT HAMMERSTROM is the Christian Science Chaplain on campus, a classically trained pianist, and hails from a military family.
Sex, Faith, & Reason: The Real Hook-up, Tuesday 3/27 12-1:30PM, PBH Parlor Room
IMAN ELIZABETH JAMES is a senior in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her thesis was on literary pornography and she writes short pornographic stories in her free time. She lives at the Dudley Co-operative house.
Can Porn Be Ethical?, Thursday 3/28 8-9:30PM, Sever 112
MELISSA KEYES DIGIOIA, CSE is a Senior Sexual Health Educator/Trainer at Planned Parenthood of Central and Greater Northern New Jersey and an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator with over ten years of experience in the field of sexuality education. Ms DiGioia delivers developmentally appropriate sexuality related presentations to youth, adults, parents, and professionals in a variety of settings. She is a coauthor of the upcoming teaching manual Game On!: The Ultimate Sexuality Education Gaming Guide, and a contributing author toUnequal Partners: Teaching About Power and Consent in Adult-Teen and Other Relationships (3rd Edition), Older, Wiser, Sexually Smarter: 30 Sex Ed Lessons for Adults Only, and upcoming Teaching Safer Sex (3rd Edition). She has a graduate certificate in Human Sexuality from Montclair State University.
Making Sense of Abstinence, Saturday 3/31 2-3:30PM, Harvard Hall 102
DON LARSEN is the current president of the Harvard Chaplains and pastor at University Lutheran Church. Don is an avid Chicago Cubs fan.
Sex, Faith, & Reason: The Real Hook-up, Tuesday 3/27 12-1:30PM, PBH Parlor Room
ADAM LAVITT (Rabbinic Advisor to the Reform Minyan) is entering his final year of rabbinical studies at Hebrew College, where he is also pursuing a Master’s in Jewish Education and a certificate in Pastoral Counseling. Most recently, Adam completed his second summer of pastoral training at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center. His main interest lies in building community through experiential, embodied, Jewish education and spiritual practice – and takes improvisational dance, farming and circus arts as some of his inspirations in designing meaningful Jewish experiences. His goal is to find a way to facilitate Jewish learning and practice that brings our minds back into our bodies, and into meaningful relationship with the earth. Adam holds a B.A. in Religious Studies and Literature from Kenyon College.
Guilty Pleasure, Sacred Delight: Diverse Jewish Perspectives on Sex, Monday 3/26 5-6:30PM, Rabb Hall, Hillel
Dr. JUSTIN J. LEHMILLER received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Purdue University and is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He teaches and conducts research on the topics of sexuality and relationships and has published over twenty scholarly works to date, including journal articles, chapters, and a textbook. Dr. Lehmiller also maintains The Psychology of Human Sexuality blog on his personal website (www.lehmiller.com/blog), where he shares the science of sex in an engaging and easy-to-read format.
Sexual Health Careers Panel, Friday 3/30, 4PM Fong Auditorium
DR. LOGAN LEVKOFFis a sexologist, relationship expert, and author dedicated to perpetuating healthy and positive messages about sexuality who has been featured on The New York Times, Daily News, Good Morning America, MSN, Newsweek, Men’s Health, Seventeen, Marie Claire, Fox, and the Huffington Post. She works to empower adolescents and adults and has implemented sex education programs in many schools and community organizations for almost a decade.
The 8th Annual Female Orgasm Seminar, Saturday 3/31 8-10PM, Science Center B
KARYN EVLOG-LEWIS worked as a Boston Police Special Officer for 3 years before deciding to go into nursing. Karyn recently graduated with a MSN in Forensic nursing which combined her two loves, law and medicine. She has been a SANE nurse since 2006 and have testified in court several times. Karen is also a RAD (Rape Aggression Defense) instructor, teaching the options of self defense, so they may become viable considerations to the woman who is attacked, and therefore, hopefully prevent them from needing to see a SANE nurse in the ER. She has spoken nationally to law enforcement and other groups about what a SANE program has to offer and what a SANE nurse is.
Sexual Health Careers Panel, Friday 3/30, 4PM Fong Auditorium
KATE LUETHY is a licensed advanced practice nurse in Adult Medicine. Kate recieved an undergraduate degree in Sociology from Davidson College and her Masters in Nursing from Simmons College. She has worked in private practices and at the Neponset Health Center and the Cambridge Health Allaince: Healthcare for the Homeless. She has had a great deal of experience in women’s health. She has been a nurse practitioner in Internal Medicine at HUHS for the past five years.
How to Talk To Your Doctor About Sex, Monday 3/26, 6:30-8PM, Adams Lower Common Room
NED MAYHEM, Harvard class of 2007, works as a porn performer and adult industry entrepreneur in parallel with his graduate work in physics. Ned believes that empowering independent performers to make and profit from porn that expresses their own sexualities can help to fight our society’s prejudices – racial, sexual, gendered, or otherwise – which are amplified as they are applied to sex workers. Ned and his partner Maggie Mayhem run their own website, MeetTheMayhems.com, which has been developed and maintained entirely by the Mayhems and was recently nominated for the 2012 Feminist Porn Awards. Ned also develops software tools and organizes collaborative projects to help grow a community of adult performers who can profit from their work directly, independently, and on their own terms.
Can Porn Be Ethical?, Thursday 3/28 8-9:30PM, Sever 112
DOROTHY MCLEOD is a senior in PCC concentrating in Psychology. After graduation, she hopes to do work that focuses on the intersection between sexual and mental health.
Sexual Health Careers Panel, Friday 3/30, 4PM Fong Auditorium
DARYUSH MEHTA is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Electrical Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Zoroastrian Chaplain. His mother’s father, Dasturji N. D. Minochehr-Homji, was a High Priest of the Zoroastrian community in Bombay and a religious scholar.
Sex, Faith, & Reason: The Real Hook-up, Tuesday 3/27 12-1:30PM, PBH Parlor Room
MARGOT MEITNER, MSW (Rabbinic Advisor to the Reform Minyan) is thrilled to be serving Harvard’s Jewish community in her role as Reform Rabbinic Advisor. In addition to being a rabbinical student at Hebrew College, Margot is also a Clinical Social Worker and maintains a psychotherapy practice in Brookline. She has worked with a variety of communities including families on welfare, people in psychiatric crisis, queer/transgender communities, and racially & ethnically diverse Jews. Margot is committed to fostering a Judaism that explicitly honors diversity. She is passionate about helping people see the relevance of Judaism to their lives and encouraging Judaism as a tool for spiritual/emotional growth and social change. Margot holds an M.S.W. from Smith College School for Social Work and a B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies and History from Yale University.
Guilty Pleasure, Sacred Delight: Diverse Jewish Perspectives on Sex, Monday 3/26 5-6:30PM, Rabb Hall, Hillel
NINA MELTZER is a licensed advanced practice nurse in Adult Medicine. She received her BS in Clinical Exercise Physiology from Boston University and her Masters in Nursing from Simmons College. Nina has worked at both Beth Israel Deaconess and Boston Medical Centers, the Neponset Health Center, and the VA Medical System. She has volunteered with Partners for Rural Health in the Dominican Republic and the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami, Florida. She speaks conversational Spanish. She has been a Nurse Practitioner at HUHS Law School and Internal Medicine Health Centers for the past year.
How to Talk To Your Doctor About Sex, Monday 3/26, 6:30-8PM, Adams Lower Common Room
ELEANOR MITTEN, MTS, the Baha’i representative, is a Research Assistant at Harvard Divinity School.
Sex, Faith, & Reason: The Real Hook-up, Tuesday 3/27 12-1:30PM, PBH Parlor Room
KENDRA MOORE joined Fenway Health in 2011 as the Women’s Health Outreach Coordinator. In her role as the WHOC, she is responsible for creating and executing strategies for reaching underserved groups including LBTQ women, women of color, elderly and disabled women. Prior to joining Fenway Health, Kendra served as the Strategic Growth Associate for Strong Women, Strong Girls and completed a year of AmeriCorps service through New Sector Alliance. She has several years of health education experience, with a particular emphasis on sexual health and violence prevention. Kendra holds a BA in Hispanic Studies and Human Rights from Columbia University.
Filling the Gap: LGBTQ Sex Ed, Thursday 3/29, 6:30PM Emerson 101
Sexual Health Careers Panel, Friday 3/30, 4PM Fong Auditorium
NICK NOWALK serves as a Ministry Fellow at Harvard University. Nick is from the NJ/NY area and became a Christian during his freshman year at High Point University through the influence of a student-led Campus Crusade group. After graduating with a B.A. in English Writing and a minor in Religion/Philosophy, Nick moved to the Twin Cities and attended Bethel Seminary for three years, working towards his Master of Divinity degree while also serving as a youth pastor and as staff at Minnesota Teen Challenge. He next spent two years as a pastoral apprentice at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis under John Piper in The Bethlehem Institute (TBI), and concurrently taught a number of theology and Bible classes at the undergraduate and graduate level. Nick studied at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary prior to joining Christian Union in the summer of 2008. In his free time Nick enjoys reading Jonathan Edwards and talking theology/philosophy, jogging, basketball, and spending time with his lovely wife, Kasey.
God Says Sex Is Good, Wednesday 3/28, 8PM, Sever 113
SCOTT POULSON-BRYANT is a 2nd year student in American Civilization at Harvard University with a secondary concentration in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies, and a tutor in Kirkland House. He is one of the co-founding editors of Vibe magazine, and has been published in a variety of newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and Ebony. His focus is the intersection of race and sexuality in American popular culture, specifically African American cultural production, in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of HUNG: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America (2006) and the novel The VIPS (2011).
Racial Exotification and Sexual Stereotypes, Saturday 3/31, 4-5:30PM, Science Center A
BEN PRIVOT, born and raised in the capital of the United States of America, unavoidably discovered his interest in social issues at an early age. Throughout his educational career, Ben had always found school to be a great place to start making civically-minded strides. The unique social atmosphere unifying a classroom education with extracurricular activities provides students a continual praxis where they can find success upon many platforms. So, he put the formula to the test. Ben majored in Women and Gender Studies and one extracurricular dedication after another eventually culminated in one of his greatest achievements: an award winning workshop which gets students excited about exploring consent. Now Ben is going back to school: this time to impact schools the way they have impacted him.
Dirty Talk, Tuesday 3/27, 8PM, Science Center C
JULIE ROGERS is a Seminarian in The Memorial Church and a student at Harvard Divinity School.
Sex, Faith, & Reason: The Real Hook-up, Tuesday 3/27 12-1:30PM, PBH Parlor Room
DIANE ROSENFELD, a graduate of University of Illinois, Univeristy of Wisconsin and Harvard Law School, was appointed the be Assistant Attorney General of Illinois in 1986 and Executive Assistant Attorney General in 1991. Rosenfeld was appointed to the Senior Counsel of the US Dept. of Justice Violence Against Women Office in 1997, and was on the Massachusett’s Governor’s Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence from 2003-2006. Professor Rosenfeld now teaches the Title IX seminar and clinical workshop, the Gender Violence Clinical Workshop, the Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice and the course Theories of Sexual Coercion at Harvard Law School.
Sexual Assault and Female Solidarity, Thursday 3/29 12-1PM, Griswold 110
EVA ROSENBERG is a queer, feminist, white woman with a sex education certification, a WGS degree, and plenty of practical experience.
Can Porn Be Ethical?, Thursday 3/28 8-9:30PM, Sever 112
LYDIA A. SHRIER, MD, MPH is a Senior Associate in Medicine with the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine of Children’s Hospital Boston and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is board-certified in Adolescent Medicine, having completed a fellowship at Children’s Hospital Boston in 1996. She received her Master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1997. Recently, as part of a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, the federal Office of Adolescent Health awarded almost $6.5 million to 6 sites across the country to replicate Safer Sex, an intervention to reduce sexual risk behavior in adolescent girls that Dr. Shrier developed during her fellowship. Dr. Shrier directs Clinic-based Research for the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston and, among other responsibilities, supervises the Clinic Research Coordinator and oversees the training of research staff and recruitment of adolescents for the many studies conducted in the clinic. She also represents the interests of adolescent research participants as a member of the hospital institutional review board. Dr. Shrier maintains a clinical practice in both primary and specialty adolescent care, with specific expertise in sexually transmitted infections, eating disorders, and reproductive endocrinology.
Sexual Health Careers Panel, Friday 3/30, 4PM Fong Auditorium
Rabbi JONAH STEINBERG, PhD was born in Canada and raised in downtown Toronto and overseas in Vienna, Austria. Jonah learned early—amid lingering shadows of intolerance and bright multicultural hopes on both sides of the sea—to rejoice in Jewish identity and to value communities that celebrate diversity. Jonah received his BA at Brown University, and his MA, MPhil. and PhD. in Religion at Columbia University. While still a graduate student, he became Visiting Instructor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, taught at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of the American Jewish University in California as a Finkelstein Fellow, and headed the program in Rabbinic Literature and Civilization at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Pennsylvania. He then joined the founding faculty of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, where he became Associate Dean and completed his own rabbinic training. Jonah has received the New Scholar Award from Harvard’s Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and has published articles exploring ancient innovations in rabbinic sources and traditions, and ways in which this legacy can inspire us to meet the challenges of our own times.
Guilty Pleasure, Sacred Delight: Diverse Jewish Perspectives on Sex, Monday 3/26 5-6:30PM, Rabb Hall, Hillel
TRISTAN TAORMINO is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, and sex educator. She is the author of seven books and editor of twenty-three anthologies, including founding series editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning Best Lesbian Erotica. She runs her own adult film production company, Smart Ass Productions, and is currently an exclusive director for Vivid Entertainment. She was a syndicated sex columnist for The Village Voice for nine and a half years, and writes an advice column for Taboo Magazine. She lectures at top colleges and universities and teaches sex and relationship workshops around the world.
What What (In the Butt): Stigma and Anal Sex, Tuesday 3/27, 4PM, Ticknor Lounge
LISA WADE, PhD is a cultural critic and sociologist based in Los Angeles, California. An Assistant Professor at Occidental College, her research involves discourses about race, gender, sexuality, and the body. She is widely-known for her work on the popular website, Sociological Images. Lisa’s public sociology, born in the site, now extends to public speaking, print, radio, television, and online news and commentary.
Hooking Up on Campus, Monday 3/26, 8PM, Science Center D
MOLLENA LEE WILLIAMS (mollena.com) is a New Yorker, performer, writer, international kink & BDSM educator and groundbreaking Executive Pervert. She is International Ms. Leather 2010 and Ms. SF Leather 2009. Consciously kinky since 1993 and active in Leather and BDSM since 1996, she authored The Toybag Guide: Playing With Taboo and co-authored the upcoming book Playing Well With Others.
Munch, Tuesday 3/27, 7:30-8:30PM, Quincy Spindell room
BDSM 101: Kink, Negotiation, and Safety, Wednesday 3/28, 4-5:15PM, Ticknor Lounge
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