On April 15, 2025, CFP team member Tara Streng-Schroeter successfully defended her sociology dissertation, entitled “Building Support for Survivors: Development and Evaluation of an Intervention to Enhance Social Support After Sexual Assault”. For her dissertation, Tara designed and implemented an intervention training sorority members in supporting peers who disclose that they have experienced sexual violence. She partnered with sorority chapters at nine different universities, then compared chapters receiving the intervention with those that did not to test whether it reduced negative biases about sexual violence survivors and helped students feel more confident that they knew how to offer social and emotional support to a peer. This work was recently profiled in Colorado Arts and Sciences magazine.
Congratulations to Tara for this impressive and high-impact dissertation research!