Join Jessica Ladd and Professor Jonathan Masur for a discussion about the legal challenges Ms. Ladd has confronted as the founder and CEO of Sexual Health Innovations (SHI), a nonprofit dedicated to creating technology that advances sexual health and wellbeing in the United States. SHI's main initiatives include Callisto, a Google.org-funded sexual assault reporting system, and So They Can Know, an STD partner notification website. Callisto has been featured in stories by numerous news outlets, including the New York Times and Forbes. 

Ms. Ladd has been honored as a 2016 TED Fellow by TED, a Fearless Changemaker by the Case Foundation, an Emerging Innovator by Ashoka and American Express, and the Civic Hacker of the Year by Baltimore Innovation Week. Before founding Sexual Health Innovations, Ms. Ladd worked in the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, as a Public Policy Associate at The AIDS Institute, and as a sexual health educator and researcher for a variety of organizations. She also founded The Social Innovation Lab in Baltimore and a chapter of FemSex at Pomona College. Ms. Ladd received her Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins and her B.A. in Public Policy/Human Sexuality at Pomona College. She left a PhD program in infectious disease epidemiology at Johns Hopkins in order to pursue work at Sexual Health Innovations full time.

This event is free and open to the public, but seating may be limited.