Leadership & Staff

Institute Director

Noël Bridget Busch-Armendariz, Ph.D., LMSW, MPA, is a nationally recognized expert in sexual assault, human trafficking, and domestic violence. She has conducted research funded by a variety of federal and state agencies such as the National Science Foundation, Department of Justice’s, National Institute of Justice, Office of Victims of Crimes, and the Office of Violence and Women, the Texas Office of the Attorney General and the Governor of Texas, Criminal Justice Division. As IDVSA’s director Busch-Armendariz strives to put her research findings into the hands of game changers, which led to her serving as a member of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. Learn more

Institute Co-Directors

Matt Kammer-Kerwick, Ph.D., is the Director of the Bureau of Business Research and an NSF-funded Research Scientist at the IC2 Institute. He is the principal investigator of the study Disrupting Exploitation and Trafficking Labor Supply Networks in Post-Harvey Rebuild, which is exploring the use of stochastic games and agent-based models to assess and develop disruptive interventions for illicit supply chains. He is also a co-principal investigator on projects with IDVSA. Learn more

Jeana Lungwitz, JD, is a Clinical Professor in the Domestic Violence Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law and a shareholder with Lungwitz & Lungwitz, P.C. She is an appointed member of the Supreme Court Protective Order Taskforce. Ms. Lungwitz graduated from Texas Tech School of Law in 1989 and was licensed in the state of Texas that same year. She co-founded the Domestic Violence Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law with Sarah Buel in the fall of 1997. The Domestic Violence Clinic allows law students the opportunity to represent victims of domestic violence in Travis County, Texas, while being supervised by a licensed attorney. Learn more

Former Co-Director

Donna Rolin – IDVSA and UT Social Work honor the life and work of Dr. Donna Rolin, former IDVSA Co-Director from the School of Nursing.

A message from Dean Allan Cole

Institute Team Members

Margaret Bassett

Director of Applied Research & Innovative Instruction

Caitlin Sulley

Director of Research & Operations

Bruce Kellison

Consultant, Former Institute Co-Director, Former BBR Director