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CVR House Rent Party
January 30 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$20
Join the Center for Victim Research at our House Rent Party, January 30, from noon to 5 pm ET. This event — open to anyone who donates $20 or more to CVR — is designed to pay our virtual “rent” including our website costs, online library, and newsletter. Attendees will hear from leading victim researchers, have a chance to pose questions, and interact with colleagues.
Donors will be registered for this Zoom event and receive an email with the link. Log in for the full afternoon or come and go as you have time. If you miss anything, don’t worry – we’ll send a link to the recording to all supporters of the event.
Featured guests and times:
| Noon | Janine Zweig, Ph.D., has nearly 30 years of experience conducting research, evaluation, policy analysis, and technical assistance across a number of justice related topics with a particular focus on crime survivors. Her last two roles were leadership positions, most recently as Executive Science Advisor at the National Institute of Justice – the research and evaluation agency in the US Department of Justice – and before that she was Associate Vice President of the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute. She has extensive experience conducting research, evaluation, policy analysis, and technical assistance on a wide range of issues including violent victimization, particularly sexual, intimate partner violence, and victimization for people leaving correctional facilities. She currently serves as the Executive Director of WRI Solutions, a capacity-building nonprofit serving New York organizations.
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| 12:30 pm | Joseph Richardson, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Transformative Research and Applied Violence Intervention Lab (TRAVAIL) at the University of Maryland. This lab uses a multidisciplinary approach integrating behavioral and social science, medicine, public health, social work, law, computer science and the digital humanities to understand gun violence, its causes and collateral consequences. Dr. Richardson’s research utilizes the two busiest trauma centers in Maryland to understand violence, violent injury and trauma among young Black men. In collaboration with ROAR, a victim of crime clinic at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, Dr. Richardson is working with colleagues to develop a virtual cognitive behavioral intervention peer healing model for Black men survivors of firearm injury in Baltimore. He is leading a qualitative digital storytelling project in partnership with ROAR which investigates the lives of Black women survivors of violent firearm injury in Baltimore during the COVID epidemic. He is also leading the qualitative evaluation of street outreach community violence intervention programs in the District of Columbia. See more.
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| 1:00 pm | Susana Avalos, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. They are a queer victimologist and criminologist whose research focuses on transgender people’s social, criminal legal, and online experiences. Specifically, Susana is interested in how transgender people navigate safety, resist victimization, and the role of community support in overcoming trauma. Susana’s work is nationally recognized by both the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Their recent scholarly work has appeared in a variety of journals including Crime and Delinquency, Homicide Studies, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Policing and Society, Critical Criminology, and Gender Issues, as well as in various edited book volumes.
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| 1:30 pm | Tara N. Richards, Ph.D., is the David Scott Diamond Alumni Professor of Public Affairs and Community Service in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Her research and teaching focuses on prevention, intervention, and system responses to sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and child abuse and neglect. Richards co-directs SCCJ’s Victimology and Victim Studies Research Lab (VVSRL) – a student-faculty research lab dedicated to researching crime victims and crime victimization, informing policy and practice, and helping shape prevention and intervention efforts. In this role, Richards has led/co-led numerous funded researcher-practitioner partnerships. She serves as the evaluator for Nebraska’s Rape Prevention Education project and coordinates Nebraska’s Victim Assistance Academy – the state’s 40-hour training for victim advocates and allied professionals.
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| 2:00 pm | Ronald Acierno, Ph.D., is Professor and Vice Chair for Veterans Affairs and Executive Director of the Trauma and Resilience Center, UT Health Houston, and Senior Research Scientist, RHJ Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston South Carolina. Dr. Acierno, a clinical psychologist is also a researcher striving to advance care of traumatized patients. He has published over 200 articles, including several major highly cited research articles in Elder Abuse, telemedicine, PTSD, and Disaster Affected older adult populations. In addition to his academic and administrative work, he offers pro bono consultation to Military, VA, Police, Fire, and Chaplaincy services, as well as other agencies that serve older adult victims of violence and abuse.
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| 2:30 pm | Dean Kilpatrick, Ph.D., is the Director of the Office for Victims of Crime-funded National Mass Violence and Victimization Resource Center, a Distinguished University Professor, and senior investigator. His involvement with the traumatic stress field began in 1974 when he helped establish People against Rape, South Carolina’s first rape crisis center. His primary research interests include measuring the prevalence of sexual violence, other violent crimes, mass violence, and other types of potentially traumatic events, as well as assessing PTSD and other mental health impacts of such events. Dr. Kilpatrick and colleagues have conducted numerous studies on these topics using national probability samples of adults and adolescents. He served as Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Traumatic Stress from 1997-2005 and as President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) in 2005- 2006. He has also served as Director of the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center since it was established in 1977. He has received numerous awards for his work including the United States Presidential Award for Outstanding Contributions to Victims of Crime in 1990 and the ISTSS Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Traumatic Stress Studies in 2008.
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| 3:00 pm | Rebecca Campbell, Ph.D., is a University Distinguished Professor and William J. Beal Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. In her research career, Dr. Campbell studies sexual assault survivors’ disclosure and help-seeking experiences with the legal and medical systems. She has published over 175 scientific papers and 2 books on these topics, and has conducted over 300 presentations at state, national, and international conferences. Dr. Campbell was the lead researcher for the National Institute of Justice-funded Detroit Sexual Assault Kit Action Research Project, which was designated as an Exemplary Project by the Association of Public & Land Grant Universities (APLU) and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Dr. Campbell also conducts training on sexual assault and vicarious trauma for law enforcement and multidisciplinary practitioners in civilian, military, and campus community settings.
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| 3:30 pm | Sherry Hamby, Ph.D., is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at the University of the South and Director of the Life Paths Research Center. She is also the founder of ResilienceCon and was founding editor of the APA journal, Psychology of Violence. Dr. Hamby is an internationally recognized authority who is known for her work on trauma dosage and resilience. A clinical psychologist by training, Dr. Hamby has worked for more than 30 years on the problem of violence, including front-line crisis intervention and treatment, involvement in grassroots organizations, and research leading to the publication of more than 200 articles and books. An influential researcher, she has been ranked in the top 1% among more than 10 million researchers in 22 disciplines based on citations to her work. Her awards include Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association (APA). Her newest book is Stronger Than You Think: Building Lifelong Resilience (releasing May 26, 2026 by Penguin Random House, available for pre-order now).
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| 4:30 pm | Henrika McCoy, Ph.D., serves as the Morris Endowed Dean of the Graduate School of Social Work and Acting Dean of the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (Ph.D. and B.A.), the University of Pennsylvania (M.S.W.), and Loyola University Chicago (M.J.), Dr. McCoy’s research focuses on young Black male adolescents whose mental health issues precipitate their involvement in the juvenile legal system and the experiences of emerging adult Black males and their experiences with violence. She became a Society of Social Work and Research Fellow in 2022, and she has received several accolades for her research, including the Julius Debro Award from the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award.
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