38. Kate Ott, Director of Research, Women Faculty Forum.

Saying "No" Is Not Enough: Rethinking Adolescent Sexual Ethics - This poster describes my passion, my dissertation project, and my commitment to the many young women and men that I have worked with over the past 10 years. This project is my effort to talkback to current public policy makers pushing abstinence-only-until-marriage education that is ineffectual and unsafe. I also speak to Christian communities who continue to send mixed messages at best, and harmful ones at worst, to adolescents struggling to sort out the meaning of influential and life altering relationships. I hold a PhD in Christian Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.