Rachel Ramirez (Ohio Domestic Violence Network)

Rachel Ramirez, LISW-S, RASS, is the Director of Health and Disability Programs and the Founder of The Center on Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury at The Ohio Domestic Violence Network (ODVN). In this role, she oversees several initiatives on the intersection of domestic violence, disability, behavioral health and health access, with a focus on trauma-informed services and partner-inflicted brain injury. She also provides extensive statewide, national, and international training, consultation, technical assistance, and program support. Rachel has been with ODVN for 15 years and has co-authored several peer reviewed journal articles, as well as been featured on National Public Radio, The New York Times Magazine, and The Washington Post discussing brain injury and domestic violence. Rachel is a dedicated and passionate advocate for survivors of abuse and works to prepare systems to provide trauma and brain injury informed services. 

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Over 20 years of experience providing neuropsychological treatment to individuals with known or suspected neurological illness/injury with a special focus on survivors of brain injury and their families. Established a nonprofit organization, Northeast Ohio Brain Injury Foundation (NEOBIF) to help promote information and resources for brain injury survivors and their families in northeast Ohio.

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Christian Vaccaro’s research interests are in sociological social psychology. Specifically, he has published and presented multiple research manuscripts that link together by their insights into how patterns of interactions between people in real world settings influence emotions, identities, and behaviors.

He serves the university as director of training for the Mid-Atlantic Research and Training Institute for Community Behavioral Health, University Merit Scholarship advisor, Sociology Department program assessment point person, member of the Sociology Department Master’s Committee, board member of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Research, Legislative Committee co-chair for APSCUF, and Sociology Department Online Education Sub-committee chairperson. He is also active in public service and was an elected council member for the borough of Leechburg from 2013 to 2018,

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Associate Professor

Office: 506-BB Leonard Hall

Email: Lingyan.Yang@iup.edu

Education

PhD, U of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000

MA, U of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994

BA, English, Xiamen University, People’s Republic of China

Academic Interests

Asian American and Asian Diasporic (Women’s) Literatureand Cultural Criticism; 20thand 21st Century Critical Cultural Theories and Literary Criticisms, including but not limited to feminist theories, postcolonial theory, Asian American and Asian diasporic cultural and literary criticisms, poststructuralism, postmodernism, comparative postcolonial and American multiethnic women’s literature and feminisms, and Marxism

MELUS 2013 Conference Committee cochair to organize and host the national conference of MELUS (Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US), joined by the US Chapter of Association of the Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, the national conference of postcolonial literature, on March 14-17, 2013, in downtown Pittsburgh.

Former director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, IUP, 2012-15

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Lingyan Yang

Education

PhD, U of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000

MA, U of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994

BA, English, Xiamen University, People’s Republic of China

Academic Interests

Asian American and Asian Diasporic (Women’s) Literatureand Cultural Criticism; 20thand 21st Century Critical Cultural Theories and Literary Criticisms, including but not limited to feminist theories, postcolonial theory, Asian American and Asian diasporic cultural and literary criticisms, poststructuralism, postmodernism, comparative postcolonial and American multiethnic women’s literature and feminisms, and Marxism

MELUS 2013 Conference Committee cochair to organize and host the national conference of MELUS (Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US), joined by the US Chapter of Association of the Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, the national conference of postcolonial literature, on March 14-17, 2013, in downtown Pittsburgh.

Former director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, IUP, 2012-15

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