Release date: July 18, 2022
My very special guest for this first episode of Season 2 is the venerable Dorothy Espelage. Dorothy is the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of Education in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education; she is the author of numerous books on bullying, including Bullying Prevention and Intervention: Realistic Strategies for Schools; and she is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the American Psychological Association for her work on bullying. In other words, Dorothy is the expert on bullying. She and I discuss bullying and its consequences, and we attempt to answer a listener's question about workplace bullying. More information about Dorothy can be found below.
Biography of Dorothy Espelage
Dorothy L. Espelage, Ph.D., is William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of Education at
the University of North Carolina. She is the recipient of the APA Lifetime Achievement
Award in Prevention Science and the 2016 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions
to Research in Public Policy, and is a Fellow of APS, APA, and AERA. She was recently
elected to the National Academy of Education and awarded the SPR Prevention Science
Award in 2020. She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Indiana University
in 1997. Over the last 22 years, she has authored over 230 peer- reviewed articles, seven
edited books, and 80 chapters on bullying, homophobic teasing, sexual harassment,
dating violence, and gang violence. Her research focuses on translating empirical
findings into prevention and intervention programming and she has secured over 15
million dollars of external funding. She advises members of Congress and Senate on
bully prevention legislation. She conducts regular webinars for CDC, NIH, and NIJ to
disseminate research. She has conducted randomized clinical trials to evaluate K-12
social-emotional learning programs to reduce youth aggression, peer-led interventions to
address sexual violence and suicidal behaviors, and virtual reality-based bully prevention
programs. Findings of her research are guiding state, national, and international efforts to
prevent youth violence and promote positive school climates. She authored a 2011 White
House Brief on bullying among LGBTQ youth and attended the White House Conference
in 2011, and has been a consultant on the stopbullying.gov website and consultant to the
National Anti-bullying Campaign, Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She has presented
multiple times at the Federal Partnership to End Bullying Summit and Conference. She is
a consultant to the National Institutes of Health Pathways to Prevention Initiative to
address bullying and youth suicide. Dr. Espelage has appeared on many television news
and talk shows, including The Today Show; CNN; CBS Evening News; The Oprah Winfrey
Show, Anderson, Anderson 360 and has been quoted in the national print press, including
Time Magazine, USA Today, People, Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal. Her
dedicated team of undergraduate and graduate students are committed to the dissemination
of the research through various mechanisms.
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