RaeAnn E. Anderson was raised in rural Kansas and has recently, happily returned to the Northeast Kansas/Kansas City area after 15 years away. She is an Assistant Professor in the Health Sciences department and a licensed psychologist. She loves teaching Human Sexuality and our Health Sciences courses at UMKC - to get to teach students how to empower themselves and change their communities is a privilege and honor. In the UMKC Sexual Violence Prevention Laboratory she trains students, encourages them, and leads an interdisciplinary team focused on preventing sexual violence for all people of all ages, genders, races, sexual orientations and on. It is one of a small number of research teams in the entire country focused exclusively on preventing sexual violence. More specifically, her research interests are methodological issues in sexual violence research especially measurement, and basic processes in sexual victimization and sexual perpetration in order to inform sexual assault risk reduction and prevention programs, respectively. She made it this far via great training and generous mentors at the University of Kansas (Bachelor’s), the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (PhD), the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System (internship) and Kent State University (post-doctoral training). RaeAnn is the first woman on her father’s side to graduate high school, much less college, a fact she keeps in mind as she tries to make things easier for the students who are also on this path. During her family time she enjoys hiking and getting into nature with family, letting her toddler explore the world, reading books, and crafting.
