Ted Rutherford
Ted is TAASA’s youth outreach specialist. He provides training and technical assistance to participants in the Texas PEACE Project, a program to engage and support youth activists and their adult allies who are working for equality and social change to prevent sexual and dating violence. Ted served for seven years as an educator in the Round Rock Independent School District, and in 2004 he began working in dating violence prevention as the co-director of the Changing Lives Youth Theatre Company. Ted became a full-time staff member at SafePlace in 2007 as the coordinator of the Choose Respect Project – a national teen dating violence prevention initiative. Ted is also the founder of Responsible Men, which mobilizes men to end men’s sexism and violence against women. Ted holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theatre from the University of Mississippi and a Master of Education degree from the University of Montevallo. He proudly serves on TAASA’s Mobilizing Men Task Force, the Keep It Consensual Task Force at SafePlace, the College Alliance for Nonviolence and on the Board of Directors for The Cipher: Austin’s Hip Hop Project.
Tamara Williams
Tamara Williams is TAASA’s youth program coordinator. She helps implement and support Texas PEACE Project Chapters across Texas. Prior to this position, she worked as the membership services coordinator at TAASA. Before joining the TAASA staff, she worked in the clerical and medical fields.