Jackson Katz

Jackson Katz, Ph.D., is an educator, author, filmmaker and cultural theorist who is internationally renowned for his pioneering scholarship and activism on issues of gender and violence. His 2012 TED talk “Violence Against Women-it’s a Men’s Issue” has been viewed over 3 million times. In 1993, Katz co-founded the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program at Northeastern University to prevent gender violence and introduced the “bystander approach.” Since 1997 he has run MVP Strategies, which provides gender violence prevention/leadership training to institutions in the public and private sectors. MVP has been implemented by college athletic programs, professional teams (including the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox), NASCAR, and was the first gender violence prevention program in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. Katz has authored two books: The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How all Men Can Help, and Man Enough? Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity. He is creator, lead writer and narrator of the award-winning Tough Guise videos. He lectures and trains widely in the U.S. and around the world on violence, media and the many intersections of gender, sexual orientation and race. Katz holds a master's degree.