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How do we deal honorably with the harmful effects of sexual misconduct? Restorative justice is a voluntary disciplinary process that lets survivors be heard and keeps offenders accountable. Mary Koss published the first national study on acquaintance rape in 1987 and developed the most frequently used survey to measure unwanted sexual experiences. Much of her recent research has been on restorative justice in community and campus settings, and she also consults nationally and internationally on sexual assault prevalence. She was the principal investigator of the RESTORE Program; the first restorative justice program for sex crimes among adults that was quantitatively evaluated. She is the recipient of the Visionary Award from End Violence Against Women International. In 2013, the Mary P. Koss Profile in Courage Award was created by the One in Four USA Organization to honor her career contributions to using science to heighten awareness of the high prevalence of rape. Koss holds an AB in psychology from the University of Michigan and a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota. Coeditor a two-book series for the American Psychological Association, Violence against Women and Children, Koss is Regents’ Professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. Sponsored by Reed College Student Services. For more information, contact Rowan Frost.