Ms. Vanessa E. Volz

Vanessa Volz has been an adjunct instructor in the Gender and Women's Studies program since 2010. She teaches several different courses, including "Gender-Based Violence," "Women and Madness," and "Reproductive Rights and Justice." She has been the executive director of Sojourner House, a Providence-based domestic and sexual violence agency, since 2011. She previously served as a staff attorney at a disability rights non-profit organization, and she has published articles in the UC Berkeley Reproductive Rights casebook and the Rutgers University Women's Rights Law Reporter. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, Bard College, Leadership Rhode Island, and the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program.