Full Name
Sharyn Potter
Job title
Executive Director of Research, Prevention Innovations Research Center | Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Affiliation/Organization
University of New Hampshire
Short Bio
Sharyn J. Potter, is a Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Executive Director of Research at the Prevention Innovations Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. Her work focuses on engaging community members to work collaboratively to reduce sexual and relationship violence, stalking and harassment in high schools, colleges, the US Military, and other workplaces. She has been a leader in the development, dissemination, and evaluation and of theory- and research-based violence prevention bystander intervention prevention strategies including the uSafeUS® campus sexual violence prevention and response app, uSafeHS® a student safety app for high school students, the Know Your Power® Bystander Intervention Social Marketing Campaign and two bystander video games that model pro-social bystander behaviors, MindlfockTM and ShipHappensTM. Dr. Potter has served as a prevention subject matter expert for the US Office of the Secretary of the Navy. She also led a study for the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault to examine sexual misconduct policy delivery methods. In addition, Dr. Potter is a national expert on designing and administering sexual violence prevalence studies. Her work has been cited in international and national news media including the Guardian, New York Times, National Public Radio, Vox, Teen Vogue and Chronicle of Higher Education.
Sharyn Potter