Dr. Katie Edwards is a Professor in the School of Social Work (SSW) at the University of Michigan (U of M). She is also the director of the Interpersonal Violence Research Laboratory (IVRL) in the SSW at U of M. The IVRL focuses on preventing and responding to sexual and related forms of violence and promoting positive youth development among structurally minoritized populations using community-based participatory action research. Current work is focused on program development and evaluation with Indigenous youth and communities as well as LGBTQ+ youth. To date, Dr. Edwards has obtained more than 23 million dollars in research funding and published more than 220 peer-reviewed publications.