Emily E. Prior (she/her) is the Executive Director for the Center for Positive Sexuality. Since 1996 she has been teaching formal and informal classes about a variety of sexuality-related topics including Gender, Deviance, Relationships and Family, and Feminism. She is an adjunct professor at several colleges and universities, has over a dozen publications, and presents at conferences around the U.S. She is frequently interviewed about her research, the Center, and positive sexuality in general. She won the Vern Bullough Award for research.

Andrew Pari proudly joined the CPS Board in 2018. The Founder and Director of Sexual Assault Awareness, LLC, he is a psychotherapist and national speaker with over 20 years’ experience treating sexual trauma, including specialized populations in the sex trade and victims of trafficking. He is the nation’s leading authority on the victim experience of arousal in sexualized violence and related “taboo” topics.

Andrew hosted the largest ever public discussions on topics related to rape, created the Los Angeles radio show, Chasing the Why, and is a moderator on forums for recovery. He is a sought-after conference speaker and trainer with law enforcement and the military. He is one of the NASW’s “1000 Experts,” responding to media inquiries/interviews on trauma, sexualized violence, and disaster response, and served on the 2017 NASW National Policy Task Force for Sex Work and Commercialized Sex Trade. In 2018, Andrew spearheaded the campaign to have the Antelope Valley declared the largest “Start By Believing” region in California, a national program dedicated to believing sexual assault survivors.

While he enjoys training and speaking on sexualized violence, challenging taboos, and using positive sexuality in recovery, please don’t call him “The Rape Guy.”

Adrian Colesberry is the author of How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry, by Adrian Colesberry. He spent five years teaching sex ed for Planned Parenthood. He has a degree in biomedical engineering, an MBA, and has spent his career managing manufacturing operations in the pharmaceutical industry. He never, with his apologies, has manufactured anything that could make your penis or vagina wetter, harder, bigger, tighter or or in any way more splendiferous.

Eric Chambers is currently adjunct professor of linguistics at the State University of New York at New Paltz.  His dissertation focused on language use among gay-identified members of an online erotic hypnosis messageboard.  He has been published in the Journal of Language and Sexuality, and in a forthcoming volume of digital orality.  He is currently working on two larger projects: a linguistic treatment of erotic hypnosis trances, and its intersections with larger ideologies and language patterns of clinical hypnosis; and a cross-linguistic typology of the emergence of nonbinary pronouns and strategies in traditionally-gendered languages. He is also a self-professed "advanced beginner" bookbinder.

Daniel Copulsky is a graduate student in Social Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on marginalized sexualities and relationships, particularly LGBTQ+ and non-monogamous identities. He speaks regularly at colleges and conferences, including presentations at the Alternative Sexualities Conference, Positive Sexuality Conference, and Alt Sex NYC.

Dr. Daniel Garrett is a Licensed Psychologist, currently working in private practice and inpatient community mental health. His clinical experience is focused on building genuine, supportive connections with his clients to help them achieve their therapeutic goals. He hopes to apply his varied life experiences with his passion for working with marginalized individuals struggling with mood disorders, trauma, life and identity related challenges, dual diagnosis, and members of the LGBTQ and kink and polyamorous/ethical non-monogamy communities. Daniel received his graduate training in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, and completed his post-doctoral training through Tarzana Treatment Centers in Tarzana, California.

Julia Schiffman is the outreach coordinator for the center. She graduated from the University of Southern California with her master’s degree in social work. She has 7+ years working with the LGBTQ+ community and specializes in gender therapy. She is dedicated to providing resources and therapy for non-normative couples and sexual lifestyles. Julia has been a sex educator for 3+ years and looks to continue her life’s work through the center’s mission.

Dr. Victoria Reuveni is a Los Angeles-based sexological bodyworker, sex educator, and Orgasmic Yoga facilitator working with individuals, couples, and groups to facilitate erotic embodiment through and self-acceptance through mindfulness, breath work, and touch. She sporadically blogs about sex, kink, gender, and body image and reviews sex toys. Victoria has been an educator with CPS since 2013, speaking on panels about kink/BDSM, nonmonogamy, and sex work, and a board member since 2016.

D J Williams is a board member, Journal of Positive Sexuality co-founder, and a social and behavioral scientist at Idaho State University. He completed doctoral and postdoctoral studies at the University of Alberta (Canada), and his scholarship intersects leisure science, forensic behavioral science, criminology, and sexology. D J is a leading international expert on deviance as leisure experience, and he has been a consultant and/or expert witness on several high-profile forensic cases involving sexuality and actual or potential violence. His research has been published in numerous academic books and journals, including Journal of Sexual Medicine, Homicide Studies, Deviant Behavior, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Leisure Sciences, and Critical Criminology.