About Us

Sharyn Potter

Co-Director

426 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3630
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: sharyn.potter@unh.edu

Sharyn J. Potter, Ph.D., MPH, is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of Prevention Innovations. She received her Ph.D. in medical sociology and an MPH in Health Policy and Management from Emory University. Dr. Potter co-leads the development, dissemination and evaluation of the Know-Your-Power®Bystander Social Marketing Campaign. The Know-Your-Power bystander Social Marketing Campaign raises awareness about the problem of sexual violence and models prosocial behaviors that target audience members can use in situations where sexual and relationship violence and stalking are occurring, have occurred or have the potential to occur. The campaign has received funding from a variety of agencies including the Department of Justice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the UNH Parents Association. In addition to being used at the University of New Hampshire, the campaign has been adapted specifically for the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, the University of California at Merced and was adapted and piloted on a US Army Post in Europe. Images from the campaign have been used by 30 colleges and universities around the United States. She is part of a research team that has received funding from the NIJ, DOJ and CDC. For the past 25 years she has been involved in sexual violence prevention as a researcher, a member of a rape crisis center board of directors and an advocate. Dr. Potter is a member of the Public Education Committee of the New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence.

Jane Stapleton

Co-Director

Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2194
Fax: (603) 862-4721
E-mail: Jane.Stapleton@unh.edu

Jane Stapleton, M.A., Co-Director of Prevention Innovations, is a lead developer and evaluator of the Know-Your-Power®Bystander Social Marketing Campaign and is working to expand the mediums for disseminating the campaign. She coordinates the University of New Hampshire Campus Grant to end Dating and Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking, funded by the US Department of Justice and is often called upon by peer campus grantees to consult on program development, direct services, and evaluation and prevention strategies. She has extensive experience in working to end violence against women in a college/university setting. She was one of the founding members of the Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program (SHARPP) at UNH, only the second rape crisis center on a college campus in the United States. She has provided direct services to survivors, developed, facilitated and evaluated prevention programs and directed campus-wide efforts (including policy development and systems’ advocacy) to end sexual and relationship violence and stalking on the UNH campus. She has served on the Board of Directors of the NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and maintains strong professional connections with this organization. She was hired by the NH Department of Justice to organize and coordinate a NH Campus Consortium to end violence against women on campus and has consulted with campuses across the country. She teaches in both the Women’s Studies Program and the Family Studies Program at UNH. Additionally, she has extensive experience in program evaluation and works closely with the NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, the NH Administrative Office of the Courts and the NH Department of Justice, Office of Victim Assistance. In the latter capacity, she has evaluated projects such as “Open Doors to Safety,” the “Intensive Case Management of Homicide Cases” and the “Mental Health Needs of Children” research project.  Jane is part of a research team that has received funding from the National Institute of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, Family Violence Prevention Fund, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As an activist, administrator, policy maker, service provider and researcher, she has worked in the field of ending violence against women for 23 years. 

Mary M. Moynihan

Prevention and Evaluation Coordinator

203 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2675
Fax: (603) 862-4721
E-mail: marym@unh.edu

Mary M. Moynihan, Ph.D. is a research associate professor of women's studies, an affiliate of the Justice Studies Program and co-coordinator of Prevention Innovations. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Akron-Kent State University Joint Ph.D. program in sociology, held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute (now Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University) and was a research associate at the Family Research Laboratory. She is a co-creator and evaluator of the Bringing in the Bystander in-person program and social marketing campaign. She is part of a research team that has received funding from the NIJ, DOJ and CDC.

Vicki Banyard

Research and Evaluation Consultant

306 Conant Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2869
Fax: (603) 862-4986
E-mail: Victoria Banyard

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Vicki Banyard, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Psychology with an affiliation with the Justice Studies Program. She is co-director of Prevention Innovations. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan and has trained at both the Family Research Lab, University of New Hampshire and the Trauma Center in Boston. She conducts research on the long-term mental health consequences of interpersonal violence including resilience in survivors. She also conducts research on community approaches to prevention of interpersonal violence. She is part of a research team that has received funding from the NIJ, DOJ and CDC.

Mary Mayhew

Prevention and Direct Services Specialist

Verrette House
Phone: (603) 862-3494
E-mail: mary.mayhew@unh.edu

Mary Mayhew, Prevention Innovations Coordinator, is the Director of the Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program located on the UNH campus. Prior to this she served as the Executive Director of Starting Point: Services for Victims of Domestic & Sexual Violence for 8 years and has devoted her professional career to working on issues directly related to violence against women.

Sharon Murphy

Research to Practice Specialist

E-mail: sharon.murphy@unh.edu

Dr. Sharon Murphy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of New Hampshire. She has worked with victims of domestic and sexual violence through her clinical practice and as a teacher and researcher for approximately 25 years. Dr. Murphy has provided expert testimony in more than 20 criminal and family court cases. Currently she is a member of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s Task Force on Domestic Violence and the NH Research Committee, a subcommittee of the Governor’s Task Force on Domestic and Sexual Violence. Her research and writing appears in psychology, social work and nursing journals.

Grace Mattern

Research to Practice Specialist

E-mail: gracesmattern@gmail.com

Grace S. Mattern was Executive Director of the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence for 30 years. She has been actively involved with public policy and systems advocacy to promote effective community interventions in response to domestic and sexual violence and coordinated a statewide network of programs that assist victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. She served on the Governor’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, Chairing the Research Committee. She has also served on the Attorney General's Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect, the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee, the National Greenbook Policy Advisory Council, and on numerous Boards of Directors, including the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the NH Network of Child Advocacy Centers and the NH Coalition to End Homelessness. She is currently the Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the NH Center for Nonprofits and is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.

Robert Eckstein

Lead Trainer and Curriculum Development Specialist

202D Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1242
Fax: (603) 862-2966
E-mail: Robert Eckstein

Robert Eckstein is a lecturer for the Department of Psychology and the Justice Studies Program, where he also serves as the Coordinator of Field Education. He is the co-author of Bringing in the Bystander®: A Prevention Workshop for Establishing a Community of Responsibility, an educational program aimed at implementing bystander intervention as a means of preventing violence against women. He has presented this workshop, as well as trained others on becoming program facilitators at a variety of universities, victim advocacy groups, and government agencies throughout the country.

Angela Borges

Lead Trainer

E-mail: angela.borges.1@bc.edu

Angela M. Borges, Prevention Innovations Lead Trainer has been involved with Bringing in the Bystander®, a Prevention Innovations program, for seven years as a co-facilitator and a trainer of new facilitators. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Counseling Psychology at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Her research interests include innovative domestic violence interventions, sexual assault prevention, the intersection of domestic violence and poverty, and social justice training for psychologists.