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Martin Liccardo - Gender Violence Prevention Specialist
How I Can Help: provides prevention education, training, and services related to gender based violence for the Duke community. Gender-based violence encompasses relationship violence, childhood sexual abuse, rape/sexual assault, stalking, pornography, prostitution and trafficking. This position works to: 1) create a safer, and more supportive environment on campus through comprehensive programming designed to engage students, particularly men, in long-term, high dosage programs related to reducing and eliminating gender-based violence on campus, 2) develop and implement a campus-wide plan to integrate this work into existing systems, including Student Health, Housing, Law Enforcement, etc., and 3) coordinate gender based violence prevention efforts across campus through multidisciplinary and cross-departmental cooperative efforts.
Phone: 919.681.6231
E-Mail: martin.liccardo@duke.edu
Office Location: 126 Few Fed, Duke University Women's Center
Marty came to the Women's Center in September 2007 from the University of Maryland where he coordinated programming to engage men in violence prevention. Marty graduated in 2002 from the University of Utah with a degree in Women's Studies. Marty has worked in sexual violence prevention and intervention for almost a decade at the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault and the Salt Lake Rape Recovery Center as a prevention and education coordinator and a member of the Hospital Response Team. He is "thrilled" to be here at Duke.