Deborah Tolman

Deborah L. Tolman is a developmental psychologist and the founding director of the ASAP Initiative (Analyzing Sexuality for Action & Policy) at the City University of New York (CUNY). She is the author of Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality, which was awarded the 2003 Distinguished Book Award from the Association for Women in Psychology.

Career

Tolman received her Ed.D from Harvard University in 1992. She is also the former director of the Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality, and professor of human sexuality studies at San Francisco State University.^[1] Before relocating to San Francisco, she was a senior research scientist and the director of the Gender and Sexuality Project at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College.^{[citation needed]}

Tolman is currently a professor of social welfare and psychology at the Hunter College School of Social Work and the Graduate Center of CUNY.^[2]

Her research on adolescent sexuality, gender development, gender equity and research methods has been funded by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,^{[citation needed]} the Department of Health and Human Services,^{[citation needed]} the Ford Foundation,^{[citation needed]} and the Spencer Foundation.^{[citation needed]}

In 2010, Tolman became the founding Director of the ASAP Initiative at CUNY.^{[citation needed]} The ASAP Initiative is the Northeast's center for information regarding women's and adolescent's sexuality, and a co-sponsor of the SPARKsummit movement to challenge the sexualization of girls.

Writing

In 2003 Tolman's book on adolescent girls’ sexuality, Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality,^[3] was awarded the 2003 Distinguished Book Award from the Association for Women in Psychology.

Tolman's work and commentary on adolescent sexuality has appeared in the New York Times^[4] and on the Joan Hamburg radio show.^[5]

Personal life

Deborah Tolman is married to Luis Ubiñas, the ninth president of the Ford Foundation. They reside in New York, NY and have two sons.^{[citation needed]}

Sources

1. ^ http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/article/spotlight_srsp_deborah_tolman
2. ^ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/faculty/faculty-directory.html
3. ^ Tolman, Deborah (2002). Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674018563. 
4. ^ Orenstein, Peggy (11 June 2010). "Girls Playing at Sexy". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/magazine/13fob-wwln-t.html?_r=1. 
5. ^ http://www.wor710.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=4963674

External links

• ASAP Initiative
• SPARKsummit

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