Dra. Hurtado is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver. She centers her research on critically examining how institutions maintain inequity that contribute to the perpetuation of interpersonal violence and identifying strategies for transformative change. She takes an organizational approach to investigate how institutions replicate rape culture through policies, procedures, structure, and curriculum. She also examines responsibility including who has power within institutions and how it is leveraged to eliminate interpersonal violence. Dra. Hurtado uses critical and intersectional frameworks in her work to push us beyond asking and answering the same questions that have led to little change in the prevalence of interpersonal violence in society and higher education.