Food for Thought Series: Sexual Assault Awareness and Support with Professor Sarah Wolfolds

Join us for the Faculty Fellow's Food for Thought Series: Sexual Assault Awareness and Support with Professor Sarah Wolfolds. This is a safe space community conversation. All are welcome! Lunch provided.

This community conversation is intended to provide support and a safe space for talking about the realities of sexual assault at Cornell. We will be using data from the 2023 Cornell Sexual Assault and Related Misconduct Survey (which tracks prevalence of sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, and sexual/gender-based harassment at Cornell) as an entry point to discussing what's happening on our campus. You can check out an overview of the 2021 Cornell data here: https://share.cornell.edu/learnmore/cornell-data/

Sexual violence on campuses across the US is pervasive. https://www.rainn.org/statistics/campus-sexual-violence
• 13% of all students experience rape or sexual assault through physical force, violence, or incapacitation (among all graduate and undergraduate students).
• Among graduate and professional students, 9.7% of females and 2.5% of males experience rape or sexual assault through physical force, violence, or incapacitation.
• Among undergraduate students, 26.4% of females and 6.8% of males experience rape or sexual assault through physical force, violence, or incapacitation.
• 5.8% of students have experienced stalking since entering college.

Sarah Wolfolds is the Andrew Paul Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow and assistant professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Before joining Cornell in 2016, she received her Doctorate in Strategy from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics from Swarthmore College. Professor Wolfolds has spent time working at both the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors prior to attending graduate school.

Professor Wolfolds' research examines the interaction between for-profit and non-profit organizations in industries where they coexist. While non-profits may want to differentiate themselves when faced with additional non-profit competition, it is unclear whether they would want to differentiate themselves or converge towards for-profit competitors. Her research addresses this issue by considering the different financing models, human resource systems, and objectives of non-profit organizations, as compared to for-profits, in the mixed industry of microfinance. Her recent research also examines issues surrounding financial exclusion in the U.S.

Professor Wolfolds was awarded a grant by the Strategic Research Foundation to further pursue her dissertation research.

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