Jackson Katz, Ph.D., is an educator, author, and scholar-activist who has long been a major figure in the growing global movement of men working to promote gender equity and prevent gender-based violence. He is co-founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention, one of the longest-running and most widely influential gender violence prevention programs in North America and beyond.
The multiracial, mixed-gender MVP program was the first system-wide prevention initiative in the college and professional sports culture in North America, as well as in all branches of the US military. MVP introduced "bystander" training to the gender violence prevention field; Katz is one of the early architects of this now broadly popular approach.
He is also a journalist and author who has published numerous popular as well as academic articles on a range of cultural and political topics, along with three books, the classic Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, and the award-winning Man Enough: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity. His new book is entitled Every Man: Why Violence Against Women Is a Men's Issue, published in February by Penguin Random House UK. The American version is due out in September from Bloomsbury Publishing.
Katz is also a regular contributor to Ms. Magazine, where he writes about masculinities, sex, violence, and politics. He is the creator of numerous educational documentaries, including the classic Tough Guise series, as well as The Man Card: 50 Years of Gender, Power, and the American Presidency, released last fall. He is co-founder of the Young Men Research Project, which explores better ways of engaging young men politically. His TEDx talk -- about violence against women as a men's issue, has been translated into 27 languages and has over 5.5 million views.
Katz is an acclaimed lecturer who has delivered thousands of speeches and conducted leadership trainings in all fifty U.S. states, eight Canadian provinces, and every continent except Antarctica.
Jackson Katz, Ph.D.
Founder & President
MVP Strategies
https://jacksonkatz.substack.com/
For Jackson's talk at TEDxWomen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvSfeCRxe8
