Adina Nack has been active in sexual health education and research since 1994. Author of the book Damaged Goods? Women Living with Incurable Sexcually Transmitted Diseases (Temple University Press, 2008), Dr. Nack's academic articles have been reprinted in over a dozen anthologies, and she has won awards for her research, teaching, activism, and public policy work.

As a medical sociologist, Dr. Nack has been seen and heard in MTV documentaries, CBS's The Doctors, local and regional newspapers and magazines, and interviewed on a variety of radio programs, including NPR and FOX News Radio shows. She gives talks and workshops to a variety of audiences: including presentations to college students, national academic associations, and national youth pastor conferences. Always focused on how academic research can inform real-life solutions to social problems, she addresses a range of topics - including how to have better sex in a world with STDs, the consequences of mixing morality with medicine, HPV vaccines, pop culture, and youth culture.

In the past, Dr. Nack has directed the University of Colorado's Sexual Health Education Program, been a professor at the University of Maine, and served as a grant proposal reviewer for the National Science Foundation. Currently she is a tenured associate professor of sociology at California Lutheran University. Dr. Nack lives in Ventura County, CA with her daughter and husband. Her current research focuses on traumatic childbearing experiences, and she is a 2009 recipient of a Ms. Magazine Feminist Writers Scholarship.

Adina Nack, PhD
California Lutheran University
Department of Sociology
60 W. Olsen Rd., #3800
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
nack@callutheran.edu
805.493.3438
805. 493.3479 (fax)
www.adinanack.com