Susan Wilson

Susan Wilson
Location
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Title
Senior Advisor and Founder
Company
Answer, at Rutgers University
Bio
Susan N. Wilson, MS.Ed., served as executive coordinator of Answer for 23 years and is now its senior advisor. Answer, based at Rutgers University, is national organization that provides and promotes comprehensive sexuality education to young people and the adults who teach them. Ms. Wilson is a state and national leader in the fight for effective sexuality education and the prevention of adolescent pregnancy. She has received local, state and national awards for her work, authored many articles on sexuality education and appeared on numerous radio and television shows. Currently, Ms. Wilson serves on the Board of Trustees of the Princeton Area Community Foundation, working as project coordinator of its Community Experience Partnership: Engaging Older Adults for Civic Good. She was recently named one of two Progressive New Jerseyans of the Decade by New Jersey Policy Perspective, and was named a Policy Fellow at the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University’s Douglass College.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009 1:41PM

Darwin and the Swimsuit Issue

February 12th was definitely an auspicious occasion: the 200th birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. When I read about the contributions of each, Darwin’s theory of sexual selection caught my attention.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009 10:33AM

The Octuplets: A Lesson Plan

Octuplets: The word is such a rarity that it isn’t even included in the spellcheck of Microsoft Word. A certain woman and the worldwide media have put it on the map. Surely, as educators, you must have heard the buzz about the multiple births in

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009 4:27PM

Family Life Educator-in-Chief

President Barack Obama is our Commander-in-Chief, and First Lady Michelle Obama refers to herself as Mom-in-Chief. Awhile back, former President Bill Clinton earned the title Sex Educator-in-Chief, but he earned it for all the wrong reasons—namely, his indiscreet, lewd and disrespectful c

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009 8:49PM

In or Out of Limbo?

The  recent AP headline “Future of Abstinence-Only Funding Is in Limbo” gives sexuality educators hope that the winds of change presently sweeping the land will finally end our government’s funding of abstinence-only programs, which have cost us $176 million each year and $1.5/… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 2, 2009 8:30PM

Teen Births

This is my first post on Open Salon, I am a regular blogger on my organization's website.  My hope is this: to help you talk about sexuality more honestly, accurately and creatively with young people by offering you information and ideas you can use in your  homes.

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