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The Culture Academy is designed to support meaningful, self-paced learning for professionals working within institutions. Courses are structured to balance depth, clarity, and flexibility, allowing learners to engage with complex material in ways that fit their roles and responsibilities.
Learning experiences are intentionally designed to support reflection, accountability, and practical application within institutional settings.
What Grounds The Culture Academy
This Academy is grounded in lived experience, professional expertise, and a deep commitment to improving institutional responses to sexual and gender-based violence.
Survivor-Led
Grounded in lived experience as a survivor of sexual violence and informed by over a decade of advocacy and systems-level work within gender-based violence and nonprofit spaces.
Culturally Responsive by Design
Built with an explicit focus on race, culture, power, and intersectionality recognizing how these factors shape survivor experiences and institutional responses.
Institution-Focused
Designed specifically for departments, organizations, and institutions responsible for prevention, response, advocacy, compliance, and student or community support.
Accountability-Oriented
Learning experiences emphasize reflection, responsibility, and systems-level change, moving beyond compliance toward more ethical and effective survivor outcomes.
Our Commitment to Ethical Learning
The Culture Academy is grounded in a commitment to ethical, survivor-centered, and culturally responsive learning. All courses are designed to support institutions in examining not only policy and procedure, but the cultural and systemic conditions that shape survivor experiences and outcomes.
This Academy prioritizes accountability, reflection, and responsibility recognizing that meaningful change requires more than compliance. Learning within this space is intended to support thoughtful, informed action within institutional contexts.
Leah M. Forney, The Culture Doctor