Gender violence prevention expert to speak Monday

In 1993, he co-founded the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program at Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society. Katz is one of the key architects of the bystander approach in gender violence prevention.

The mixed-gender, multiracial MVP program is one of the most widely implemented and influential sexual and relationship abuse prevention programs in schools, colleges, sports culture and the military in North America and beyond.

Katz’s award-winning educational videos “Tough Guise” and “Tough Guise 2,” his feature films "Wrestling With Manhood" and “Spin The Bottle,” and his thousands of lectures in North America and overseas have brought his insights into issues of gender and violence to millions of college and high school students as well as professionals in education, human services, public health and law enforcement.

In 1997, Katz created and directed the first worldwide gender violence prevention program in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. He and his colleagues have been centrally involved in the development and implementation of system wide bystander intervention training in the U.S. Air Force and Navy. MVP has also worked with the U.S. Army.

His TEDx talk, “Violence against Women is a Men’s Issue,” has been viewed more than 2 million times. He is the author of “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help,” and “Leading Men: Presidential Campaigns and the Politics of Manhood.” He is the founder and director of MVP Strategies, which provides gender violence prevention training to institutions in the public and private sectors.

—CSC College Relations