COS Presenter

Gordon Braxton
Contract Specialist, Department of Defense

Gordon Braxton is Contract Specialist with the Department of Defense, and previously served as the Prevention Specialist at Harvard University, where he implemented the University’s violence prevention policies. Gordon completed his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia and has a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

He was identified by Ebony Magazine as a “super man” because of his commitment to activism focused on fighting intimate partner violence. Gordon was introduced to the field of sexual violence prevention as a peer educator in an all-male anti-violence group at the University of Virginia. He currently serves as the Director of Men’s Involvement for Campus Outreach Services and is on the board of the Take Back the Night Foundation.