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Brett Sokolow, president of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management and a founding director of the National Intercollegiate Association Against Sexual Assault, will give a presentation on “Drunk Sex or Date Rape: Can You Tell the Difference?” 7:30 p.m. today in Colton Chapel.
The talk is sponsored by the Counseling Center and the Department of Athletics.
Sokolow is a risk management consultant specializing in campus safety, security, and sexual assault policy and law. He also is an author, editor, lobbyist, and higher education attorney admitted to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars. He has presented on various campus safety and sexual assault-related topics at a number of conferences throughout the country.
His consultations have included programs for campus administrators, sexual assault case management, awareness and education programs for students, books and articles on campus sexual assault, expert witness services, and lobbying efforts for sexual assault-related legislation. The model campus sexual assault policies, procedures, and protocols that he has conceived have been implemented by hundreds of colleges across the country, and their potential for excellence has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Sokolow`s activism has included the founding of Men Acting for Change at the College of William and Mary. He has served as an adviser to men’s peer education groups throughout the country on formation, programming, and campus involvement. He has served as an intern to the Victim’s Advocacy Legal Organization and has helped to establish college peer counselor organizations to assist campus sexual assault survivors. In 1998, he was part of a coalition that successfully lobbied Congress to defeat the open campus hearings provisions of the Accuracy in Campus Crime Reporting Act.
Sokolow holds memberships in the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, the University Risk Management and Insurance Association, and the Council on Law in Higher Education, where he also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees and as vice president for campus security. He serves on the advisory board of the Communities Against Violence Network.