Sexuality Education: Past, Present, and Future

Elizabeth Schroeder, Ed.D., MSW is Executive Director for Answer, a national organization based at Rutgers University that is dedicated to providing and promoting comprehensive sexuality education throughout the United States. Known worldwide for their award-winning website, SEX, ETC, (www.sexetc.org), Answer also provides much-needed professional development for teachers and other youth-serving professionals (http://answer.rutgers.edu). Schroeder is an international trainer, consultant, and author in the areas of sexual health and sexuality education, curriculum development, teacher training, and counseling. She has provided training as well as conference workshops and keynote addresses throughout the United States and overseas to thousands of youth-serving professionals and young people.

Judy Kuriansky, Ph.D. is Clinical Psychologist at Columbia University Teachers College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons' Adjunct Faculty, and Visiting Professor at Peking University Health Sciences Center and Honorary Professor in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Hong Kong. A Diplomate of the American Board of Sexology and Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Sexology and awarded the AACS Medal of Sexology for Lifetime Achievement, she is a veteran sexuality educator and therapist, as a teacher and clinician for individuals, couples, and groups across the country and the world. A past Board member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and a co-founder of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research, she has authored hundreds of articles in professional journals and mass market publications about sexuality.