National Domestic Violence Awareness Project

Beth Richie is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago with an extensive body of work in criminology, feminism, violence against women, the carceral state and the sociology of race and ethnicity. She’s the current director of the Institute of Research on Race and Public Policy, and was recently named as one of five senior advisors to the NFL’s new panel charged with creating new initiatives for domestic abuse education and prevention within the league.