Tiffany Reese

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Thank you so much for listening.

I am so excited to be speaking with Dr. Badera today, who received her PhD from the University of Michigan.

She's the co-founder of the consulting practice Beyond Compliance, which works on anti-violence initiatives and supports organizations' efforts to respond to and prevent sexual violence.

Over the last decade, she has researched sexual violence across various contexts, including college campuses and LGBTQ plus communities, exploring how institutional policies, cultural norms and organizational practices shape patterns of abuse and institutional betrayal.

Her research has been featured in major media outlets.

including the New York Times, NPR, Time Magazine, Slate, and Teen Vogue.

Dr. Badera, I'm honored to be speaking with you today and especially to discuss your book, On the Wrong Side, How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence.

Thank you so much for speaking with me.

Thank you for having me.

Before becoming a researcher, you mentioned in your book that you were a victim advocate.

Did that early work of yours inspire you to get into this kind of research?

I'm curious how you got the access from Western University, where I believe you spent a year or more conducting research and interviewing survivors for your book.

I think I got really lucky in retrospect.

You discuss in your book dismantling the idea of a quote good school and how institutions often give off a vibe or in their advertising that they are progressive or they're safe.

I've seen this reflected in a lot of the interviews with the survivors I've spoken to that the expectation that they had or that their parents had when sending them to college was that they were going to be

But at minimum, they were going to be taken care of if something bad happened.

And sadly, none of them feel that they were this good school persona.

How does that impact the understanding that people have entering into an institution?

Something you wrote about was early patterns that signal a campus is likely to protect perpetrators.