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"According to Anne Kirkner, a professor of criminal justice at Roosevelt University, the options students have to look for recourse often leave victims of sexual assault unsatisfied with the outcomes. For Title IX investigations, the length of the process and a lack of transparency from the university 'just show the survivor that the process is sort of the punishment,' Kirkner said."

"'Children gather information based on what they are told, but also on what they see modeled by the people in their lives,' Steven Meyers, a psychology professor at Roosevelt University, told HuffPost. 'Boys learn from watching how masculine behavior is demonstrated, and what then happens when it is enacted in different ways. As children age, boys learn increasingly from peer norms and how they are enforced through social rewards and punishments.'”

"Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award–winning and International Latino Book Award–winning author and poet — the first Latina and the first Puerto Rican to win the Bram Stoker Award. She writes fairy tales that blend genre and explore grief, mourning, and cycles of violence. Chicago is not her setting. Chicago is her cosmology. She holds a Master of Science from Roosevelt University."