Ted is TAASA’s youth outreach specialist. He provides training and technical assistance to participants in the Students Taking Action for Respect (STAR) program, a peer education program that provides youth with leadership skills to facilitate discussions with their peers about 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 Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Task Force at SafePlace, and the Austin Area Higher Education Interpersonal Violence Council.

You may reach Ted by phone at 512-474-7190 x34 or email.