The Domestic Violence Applied Research Advisory Group

The Applied Research Advisory Groups (ARAG) play an integral role in guiding the work of the Applied Research project.

The Domestic Violence Applied Research project coordinators at the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse at the University of Minnesota receive guidance regarding the direction of the Applied Research project from members of the Domestic Violence Applied Research Advisory Group (DV-ARAG).  DV-ARAG members assist in (1) identifying research and evaluation topics that require summarization and interpretation; (2) recommending consultants to write Applied Research documents; and (3) reviewing Applied Research documents.

The Domestic Violence-Applied Research Advisory Group is currently comprised of the following members:

• Raquel Kennedy Bergen – Professor, Department of Sociology, St. Joseph's University
• Patty Branco – National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
• Bonnie Brandl – Director, National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life
• Ted Bunch – A Call to Men
• Linda Chamberlain – Project Director, Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project
• Lynda Dautenhahn – Illinois Department of Public Health
• Mary Ann Dutton – Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University
• Kathleen Ferraro – Professor, Sociology Department, Northern Arizona University
• Kim Fountain - The New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
• Donna Garske – Marin County Abused Women Services
• Deborah Greenleaf – Advanced Practice Clinical Nurse Specialist, Public Health - Seattle & King County
• Vivian Larkin – Director of Economic and Social Justice, Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Tonya Lovelace – Women of Color Network Project Manager, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
• Anna Marjavi – Health Program Manager, Futures Without Violence
• Sandy Martin – Associate Dean for Research, Gillings School of Global Public Health; Professor and Associate Chair for Research, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina
• Grace Mattern – New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
• Susan McGee – Minerva Consulting & Arcata House
• Toby Myers – National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
• Jeremy Nevilles-Sorell – Mending the Sacred Hoop
• Ginny NiCarthy – Counselor, Capital Campaign Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services, Chaya
• Julia Perilla – Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University & National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence
• Lucille Pope – Consultant, Bozeman, MT
• Claire Renzetti – Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair, Center for Research on Violence
  Against Women; Professor of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky
• Beth Richie - Professor, Department of African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Sudha Shetty – Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
• Richard Tolman – Professor, School of Social Work, University of Michigan
• Sheryl Tyson – Director, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program, School of Nursing, Azusa Pacific University
• Mieko Yoshihama – Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Michigan & Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence Applied Research project coordinators:

• Jeff Edleson – Director, MINCAVA; Professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota
• Sheetal Rana – VAWnet document development assistant, MINCAVA
• Jennifer Witt – Associate Director, MINCAVA