NSVRC Blogs by Sally Laskey

Sally J. Laskey is the Evaluation Coordinator for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Sally is a Community Psychologist with over 30 years in the violence prevention and victim services field. She believes in the power of evaluation to tell positive prevention stories.

Steering with Data: Five Lessons on Program Evaluation

September 11, 2025 Sally Laskey

NSVRC was honored to have Dr. Sarah DeGue speak at our RPE Evaluator Community of Practice about lessons learned in evaluating prevention programs. This blog post provides a recap of the highlights from that discussion and is reprinted with permission from the author. You can view the original blog here and learn more about the work of […]

How Do We Get There From Here?

July 11, 2025 Sally Laskey

Growing up in Maine, I often heard the words “You can’t get there from here.” Working in the field of prevention, these words often echo in my mind. Luckily, my experience tells me that when we are working together we can in fact build a world free from sexual abuse, assault, and harassment. Using the […]

10 Ways to Celebrate and Get Involved in Love Data Week

February 12, 2025 Sally Laskey

February 10-14, 2025 is international Love Data Week exploring critical questions about data ownership and origins. This year’s theme challenges us to examine where data comes from and who owns it before we use it in our work.

Can Evaluation Help Build Community?

May 1, 2024 Sally Laskey

We have talked about how to use evaluation for good, but we want to expand that conversation to talk about how evaluation, if approached through a social justice lens, can help to build community. First, let’s think about why folks evaluate their programs in the first place. Sometimes it is just because it is a […]

How Rape Prevention and Education Recipients are Building Community

April 15, 2024 Sally Laskey

As we reflect on the #SAAM2024 theme, we recognize that to build connected communities we must work in solidarity with others. Here is a sneak peek at data from NSVRC’s 2024 National Strengths and Needs Assessment. Organizations working to prevent sexual violence at the community-level must learn what issues are important to community members and […]

Why is visualizing data vital to sexual violence prevention? Part 2

June 24, 2022 Sally Laskey

We are continuing to explore lessons learned by participants from our effective data visualization training series we conducted with Dr. Stephanie Evergreen. I interviewed a few training participants to hear about how their data storytelling has shifted and the larger impacts they’ve experienced. I had the opportunity to connect with Erin Chambers, Visual Communications Designer […]

Why is visualizing data vital to sexual violence prevention? Part 1

June 24, 2022 Sally Laskey

When the pandemic hit and we weren’t able to meet in person like we usually do with our Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) partners, we realized we needed a new plan.  Part of the new plan included a fantastic partnership with Dr. Stephanie Evergreen to conduct a series of virtual trainings on effective data visualization. […]

Three Things We Can Learn from the Algorithmic Justice League

January 3, 2022 Sally Laskey

The first movie I saw in a movie theater was Star Wars. I was five and couldn’t hold the seat down. My favorite book series as a pre-teen was Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet. I took extra science classes in high school and I might have been the only person in my Science, Technology, and Ethics […]

Combing Through My COVID Hair With ACEs Research

September 1, 2020 Sally Laskey

This blog provides a historical look at the uses of research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and how it sparked new research on resilience and protective factors for youth. 

Lessons Learned from Implementing Green Dot Community

August 5, 2020 Sally Laskey

On this episode, we talk with Dr. Victoria Banyard and Robin P. Christopherson about a research project to evaluate Green Dot Community.