Dr. Cris Sullivan has been named to The One Love Foundation’s National Advisory Counsel. The nonprofit organization was created in 2010 to honor the memory of Yeardley Reynolds Love.

Sullivan is currently serving as the chairwoman of the Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment Board, and senior research advisor to the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence.

In her role on the National Advisory Counsel, Sullivan will bring her expertise in developing and evaluating community interventions for abused women and their children to help guide the One Love Foundation as it grows into a national voice against relationship violence. As a foundation spokesperson, Sullivan will work to enhance the foundation’s education programs and develop new initiatives that will improve system responses towards relationship violence.

Sullivan is currently a professor of ecological/community psychology and the coordinator of the research consortium on gender-based Violence at Michigan State University. Sullivan is also the associate chairwoman of the Psychology Department and is a senior fellow of MSU’s Office on Outreach and Engagement.

Sullivan has received several federal grants to support her research and initiatives towards ending relationship violence and implementing programs to help the women and children affected by abusive relationships. Her research has led to local, state, federal and international initiatives that include: conducting workshops to effectively advocate for women with abusive partners; research on understanding the effects of domestic abuse on women and children over time; and improving systems responses and evaluating victim service agencies.