Hailey Hansen

Hailey is a second-year Master of Social Work student at the Columbia School of Social Work. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a minor in Legal Studies from Brandeis University. Her research interests include intimate partner and domestic violence, microaggressions and covert abuse, structural barriers for survivors, coercive control, the role of the law in addressing sexual violence, human sexuality, queerness, and sex therapy. Hailey's previous work includes a senior honors thesis on minimizing microaggressions and their correlation with physically overt acts of violence. She has conducted research on treatment interventions and their effects on the recidivism rates of sex offenders, explored religious barriers to legal justice for survivors, and advocated for alternatives to the criminal legal system for survivor support. With two years of experience as a medical advocate and rape crisis counselor, she has directly supported survivors by providing emotional and practical assistance within medical and legal systems. She has also worked as a forensic social worker at The Legal Aid Society and currently practices psychodynamic relational therapy at MindClear Integrative Psychotherapy in Manhattan.