Introductory Guide to Peer Review for Community Research Partners and Early-Career Researchers
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Chris Ash (she/they) is an anti-violence advocate and educator whose movement-organising work began in 1994 as a suicide hotline counsellor and LGBTQ activist/organiser. They served as Chair of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking and previously managed the National Survivor Network (NSN). While at the NSN, Chris partnered on the development of the Meaningful Engagement of People with Lived Experience framework and assessment, spearheaded a project drawing on a community accountability lens to foster repair for survivor leaders harmed by their anti-trafficking engagements, co-authored a workbook to support empowered storytelling for social change, and developed educational materials to teach systems-based violence prevention. In addition to their community-based work they served as a federal policy leader, coordinating the first-ever, entirely survivor-developed, all-survivor Capitol Hill briefing for members of Congress. They were a research consultant for the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre’s research into global promising practices for meaningful engagement of people with lived experience and are currently conducting research in partnership with Cast and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill about survivors’ experiences of sharing their stories publicly.
Chris’s current work brings together lived experience and years of direct service and community-based consent and prevention education work, as well as graduate study in social justice, human rights, and gender theory. Outside of movement work, they write prose poetry and creative nonfiction and have performed at both live storytelling events and fire festivals.
Ethan Czuy Levine (he/him) is the Research and Evaluation Manager at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (Cast). He received his PhD in Sociology and Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from Temple University in 2018. He is an award-winning researcher and speaker on interpersonal violence and LGBTQ+ communities. His 2021 book, Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge About Sexual Violence, has been described as "essential reading" and a "welcome wake-up call" for scholars in the field. Outside of academia, Ethan has more than 10 years’ experience advocating for survivors of all genders and sexualities. This has included direct service, such as staffing crisis hotlines and medical accompaniment; and education and outreach, such as facilitating workshops for diverse audiences. He brings a combined academic and practitioner lens, as well as lived experience of sexual and intimate partner violence, to the work of supporting survivors.
