Assistant Director of Outreach and Sexual Wellness
Email: tess.benser@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847.491.4618
Strengths: Context | Relator | Ideation | Empathy | Individualization
Tess Benser is the Assistant Director of Outreach and Sexual Wellness with CARE. Tess is a trauma-informed well-being and sexuality educator with a Master of Arts degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Their graduate research focused on portrayals of sexual and relationship violence in media targeted toward teens and young adults.
Tess has fifteen years of experience providing education on sexual wellness and gender-based violence beginning as an undergraduate peer educator with PAVE (Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment) at UW-Madison. Prior to coming to 麻豆最新出品, Tess worked as a Trauma Informed Training Program Manager in Philadelphia where they managed a team that trained social service and medical professionals on topics of trauma, identity, and interpersonal violence. They also served on the Board of Directors for Your Empowered Sexuality (YES!) as Social Media Chair, where they led a team creating sexual health outreach content. From 2019 to 2023, Tess worked at West Chester University as the Assistant Director of Outreach and Engagement for the Center for Women & Gender Equity, where they chaired the Annual Gender Justice Conference planning committee for three years and worked to expand sexual health education on campus.
Tess is originally from Wisconsin, and yes, they love cheese. Outside of work, Tess enjoys trivia, singing, painting, writing fiction, and hanging out with their family.