Dr. Diane Rosenfeld

Biography

Diane L. Rosenfeld is a Lecturer at Harvard Law School and the Founding Director of the Gender Violence Program. She teaches courses focused on Title IX, Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice, Theories of Sexual Coercion, and Child Exploitation and Pornography. In addition to her work at Harvard Law School, she has taught seminars at Harvard College on creating cultures of sexual respect on campus. Previously, she served as Senior Counsel in the Office on Violence Against Women at the U.S. Department of Justice and was an Executive Assistant Attorney General in the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. Diane holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on Title IX and campus sexual assault prevention and response, prevention of intimate partner homicide, and addressing the commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls. Notably, she is the author of "Bonobo Sisterhood: Revolution Female Alliance" published by HarperCollins in 2022, and she is interested in creating a bonobo-inspired sisterhood that empowers women to overcome patriarchal violence.

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