BIOGRAPHY - full
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• Jackson Katz is an educator, author and filmmaker who has long been recognized as one of America's leading anti-sexist male activists.
  
  
• His groundbreaking new book, “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help,” was published by Sourcebooks in 2006.
  
  
• In 1993 he conceived and co-founded the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Program at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. The multi-racial, mixed gender MVP program was the first large-scale attempt to enlist high school, collegiate, and professional athletes in the fight against all forms of men's violence against women. Today MVP is the most widely utilized gender violence prevention program in college and professional athletics. MVP has worked with tens of thousands of high school students, as well as thousands of student-athletes and other student leaders at over 100 colleges and universities nationally. Since 1997, Katz and other MVP staff have trained coaches, players, and front office personnel of the New England Patriots Football Club. The Patriots were the first NFL team to adopt MVP; there are now a total of seven. Several Major League Baseball teams run MVP, including the Boston Red Sox. Katz is the primary author of the program's innovative teaching materials.
  
• Katz is the founder and director of MVP Strategies, an organization that provides gender violence prevention training and materials to U.S. colleges, high schools, law enforcement agencies, the U.S. military services, community organizations, and small and large corporations.
  
  
• He is the creator and co-creator of award-winning videos for college and high school students. These include Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity (2000); Wrestling With Manhood, with Sut Jhally,(2002); and Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies, and Alcohol, with Jean Kilbourne, (2004). These videos - with accompanying study guides - are available from the Media Education Foundation
  
  
• Since 1996 he has been directing MVP-MC, the first worldwide gender violence prevention program in the history of the United States Marine Corps. He and his colleagues have trained thousands of Marines on a dozen bases in the U.S. and Japan. Katz has also worked with personnel from the United States Navy, Air Force, Army, and Coast Guard.
  
  
• Katz was a member of the U.S. Secretary of Defense's Task Force on Domestic Violence in the military from 2000-2003.
  
  
• Since 1990, Katz has lectured at more than 950 colleges, prep schools, high schools, middle schools, professional conferences and military installations in 44 states. He has conducted trainings for numerous sexual and domestic violence organizations, and has spoken at numerous public schools and community organizations across the country.
  
• From 1988 to 1998, Katz was the chief organizer for Real Men, the Boston-based anti-sexist men's organization. Real Men leafleted at Fenway Park and Andrew Dice Clay concerts, provided speakers, sponsored debates and conferences, held fundraisers for battered women's shelters, and produced and distributed literature.
  
  
• From 1998-2000, he served on the American Bar Association's Commission on Domestic Violence.
  
  
• He has consulted for nearly a decade with the Liz Claiborne Company's award-winning Women's Work campaign.
  
  
• He has published several academic articles that are widely used in undergraduate and graduate courses. Topics include: educating college student-athletes in gender violence prevention, violent white masculinity in advertising, Eminem, pornography and men’s consciousness, men's leadership in gender violence prevention education K-12, juvenile detention, masculinities in media and the male sports culture.
  
  
• Jackson Katz is widely quoted in the national print media. He has appeared on numerous national and local radio programs in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, as well as television programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, Phil Donahue, Montel Williams, ABC News 20/20, and the CBS Evening News.
  
• Katz is a former all-star football player who became the first man at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to earn a minor in women's studies. He holds a Master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where his research concentration was the social construction of violent masculinities through sports and media. He is currently a doctoral student in cultural studies and education at UCLA.

Biography - brief

Jackson Katz is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in gender violence prevention education with men and boys, particularly in the sports culture and the military. An educator, author and filmmaker, Katz is co-founder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. MVP is the most widely utilized sexual and domestic violence prevention program in professional and college athletics. It has been implemented by seven NFL teams, including the New England Patriots, as well as the Boston Red Sox and several other Major League Baseball clubs. Katz also directs the first worldwide gender violence prevention program in the history of the United States Marine Corps. His award-winning educational video Tough Guise, his featured appearances in the films Wrestling With Manhood and Spin The Bottle, and his nationwide lectures have brought his insights into masculinity and gender violence to millions of college and high school students. He is also the author of an influential new book, entitled “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help,” published by Sourcebooks in 2006. Since 1990, he has lectured at over 950 colleges, prep schools, high schools, middle schools, professional conferences and military installations in 44 states. Katz holds academic degrees from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Harvard University, and is currently a doctoral student in cultural studies and education at UCLA. A native of Boston, he lives with his family in the Los Angeles area. For more information see www.jacksonkatz.com.

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