Note: this page was updated in April 2025 to reflect more detail about how the team interacts with students.
What We Do
Johns Hopkins has expanded its confidential resources to serve all students and trainees who have experienced gender-based violence, including stalking, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence (commonly known as dating/domestic violence), and sexual assault. (Note: see footnote for caveats to confidentiality.)
As confidential resources, the Gender-Based Violence Prevention Team is able to:
- Offer support and accompany students through University reporting processes (if that is a route a person would like to explore), including:
- Navigating and explaining JHU’s sexual misconduct policy and procedures.
- Navigating and explaining Title IX policy and procedures.
- Filing reports with the Office of Institutional Equity.
- Connecting with Public Safety.
- Offer support and accompany students through local reporting processes (if that is a route a person would like to explore), including:
- Filing police reports.
- Filing orders of protection (commonly known as “restraining orders”).
- Filing peace orders (also commonly known as “restraining orders”).
- Connect and accompany students to additional on campus resources like case managers, healthcare services, counseling services, the Office of Institutional Equity.
- Connect and accompany students to additional off campus resources like hotlines, survivor support services, counseling services, and SAFE exams (commonly known as “rape kits”).
- Act as a sounding board, help with correspondence to resources, hold processing space, and anything else that is helpful.
Our training is rooted in trauma-informed response, and we focus on survivor-led problem-solving. To that end, we seek to support students in whatever is helpful to them in that moment. We are well-versed in the neurobiological and physical responses to trauma. Because we are committed to these practices, students can expect to find a judgement-free space where their needs are centered. Student can expect to have their decisions supported by the GBVP team no matter what they are (as long as those decisions are safe for themselves and others). We will never pressure students to file a report.
Folks are welcome to share as little or as much as they like about why they are seeking our services. Some people might find it helpful to share a lot of information, while others never share with us why they reached out. We never need to know more than anyone feels comfortable sharing, and we will never ask. Anywhere in that spectrum is OK. Folks can make appointments with us to ask for help connecting to resources, to work on solutions to specific problems, to learn about reporting processes, or just to have someone listen to them. We’re happy to set up a time to chat via phone, in-person, or on Zoom.
In addition to acting as a confidential resources, the GBVP team also provides programming and education around gender-based violence prevention and survivor support, including Bystander Intervention Training for grads and undergrads, the JHU Consent Campaign, and more. If you are interested in scheduling programing, you can use this form.
Who We Are
Alyse Campbell, LSMW, Assistant DirectorAlyse focuses on student support. She practices trauma-informed social work and has been a confidential resource at Hopkins since 2014. To contact her directly, call 410-516-5133 or email [email protected].
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Alyse Campbell, LSMW, Assistant Director | Alyse focuses on student support. She practices trauma-informed social work and has been a confidential resource at Hopkins since 2014. To contact her directly, call 410-516-5133 or email [email protected]. |
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Sherry Zhang, LSMW, Coordinator | Sherry is the coordinator for student support. She is trained in culturally-sensitive, trauma-informed social work, and she speaks English and Mandarin (普通话). To contact her directly, call 667-306-6106 or email [email protected]. |
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Maggie Lewis, MSW, Coordinator | Maggie is the main contact for GBVP educational programming, events, and the Bystander Intervention Training Program. Maggie has a social work background and is passionate about the intersection of harm reduction and survivor support work. To contact them directly, call 667-306-9102 or email [email protected]. |
If you have general questions, want to request programming, or aren’t sure who you would like to work with, feel free to email us at [email protected] or call our general phone number 443-927-3548.
Footnote: While we are generally not obligated to share accounts of gender-based violence with anyone at JHU or otherwise, there are a few exceptions to that per Maryland law. They are:
- if someone shares wanting to harm themselves or someone else.
- if someone shares accounts of abuse or neglect of a minor (even if the person is no longer a minor) and even if the perpetrator is deceased.
- if someone shares accounts of abuse or neglect a vulnerable adult (like an elderly person or a person with significant disability), even if the perpetrator is deceased.