2024 SEXUALITY, INTEGRITY & THE UNIVERSITY (SIU)
NATIONAL COLLEGIATE CONFERENCE
NOVEMER 8TH AND 9TH
(Friday & Saturday)
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The Sexuality, Integrity, and the University (SIU) national conference convenes students, scholars, and experts from across the country to equip the college students with the best academic resources and arguments needed to bring the message of love and fidelity to college campuses.
Conference participants will find ample opportunity to network with and learn from each other and can attend sessions by experts who will present recent research and findings on the topics of marriage, family, and sexual integrity.
All conference meals are included in the cost of admission along with housing for undergraduates Friday and Saturday nights. Arrive on Friday and depart on Sunday for out-of-town students. Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, Princeton, NJ
ERICA KOMISAR
Erica Komisar is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, parent coach and author. With 30 years of experience in private practice, she works to alleviate pain from individuals who suffer from depression, anxiety, eating, and other compulsive disorders. By helping them live better lives and have richer, more satisfying relationships, she assists them in achieving their personal and professional goals and living up to their potential.
A graduate of Georgetown and Columbia Universities and The New York Freudian Society, Erica is a psychological consultant bringing parenting and work/life workshops to clinics, schools, corporations, and childcare settings including The Garden House School, Goldman Sachs, Shearman, and Sterling and SWFS Early Childhood Center.
Erica is also the author of the book Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters and has appeared on major media networks such as CBS, ABC, FOX, and NPR. She is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Daily News, and FOX 5 NY. She is a Contributing Editor to the Institute for Family Studies. Her upcoming book, Chicken Little The Sky Isn’t Falling: Raising Resilient Adolescents in the New Age of Anxiety will be released in Fall 2021.
She lives in New York City with her husband, optometrist, and social entrepreneur Dr. Jordan Kassalow with whom she has three teenage and young adult children.
PATRICK T. BROWN
Patrick T. Brown is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where his work focuses on developing a robust pro-family economic agenda and supporting families as the cornerstone of a healthy and flourishing society.
His writing has been published in The New York Times, National Review, Politico, The Washington Post, and USA Today, and he has spoken on college campuses and Capitol Hill on topics from welfare reform to child-care and education policy.
He has published reports on paid leave and family policy with the Institute for Family Studies, and edited an essay series featuring working-class voices for American Compass. He is an advisory board member of Humanity Forward and the Center on Child and Family Policy and a contributing editor to Public Discourse.
Prior to joining EPPC, Patrick served as a senior policy advisor to Congress’ Joint Economic Committee. There, he helped lead research about how to make it more affordable to raise a family and more effectively invest in youth and young adults. He also previously worked a government-relations staffer for Catholic Charities USA.
Patrick graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in political science and economics. He also holds a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He and his wife Jessica have four young children and live in Columbia, S.C.
SUZANNE VENKER
Suzanne Venker is a nationally recognized expert on America’s gender war. She is the author of five books on feminism’s assault on men, women, and families, as well as a former Fox News contributor and columnist at the Washington Examiner.
Currently, Suzanne is a certified marriage and relationship coach and host of The Suzanne Venker Show. Suzanne’s new book (August 2021), How to Get Hitched (and Stay Hitched): A 12-Step Program for Marriage-Minded Women, liberates women from the lies they’ve absorbed about men and marriage and offers a new, foolproof roadmap for navigating life and love. Suzanne’s other books include The Alpha Female’s Guide to Men & Marriage, The War on Men, Women Who Win at Love, The TwoIncome Trap, and The Flipside of Feminism.
Suzanne’s writing has appeared in countless publications, including Time, USA Today, Parents, and the New York Post. Her work has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, as well as in Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Huffington Post and London’s Daily Mail. Her TV credits include STOSSEL, The View, Fox & Friends, ABC News, CNN, C-Span’s Book TV and more. She has appeared on hundreds of radio shows throughout the country; and her work has been featured on “The Dr. Laura Program,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “The Rush Limbaugh Show.” Suzanne graduated from Boston University in 1990. Today she lives in St. Louis, MO, with her husband of 23 years. They are empty nesters.