Shoshana Benjamin

Shoshana Benjamin (she/her) earned her MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where she focused on the social determinants of health and sexual and reproductive health. In graduate school, Shoshana concentrated her work and research on comprehensive sexuality education, teaching sex education to middle school students, lobbying the New York State legislature to implement legislation around sex education, and writing her master’s thesis on the impacts of college-level sexual health curricula. Since graduation, she has worked with the Social Intervention Group at Columbia’s School of Social Work, implementing evidence-based interventions around substance use, HIV, and violence prevention. She hopes to focus her future research on examining how sexuality education can be used as a tool to prevent relationship and sexual violence, and to use research findings to influence policy in order to ensure more expansive and equitable access to sexuality education. Shoshana is also passionate about designing and implementing targeted interventions to improve the sexual health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ youth.