Duane de Four, M.A. is an educator, writer and anti-sexist male activist specializing in gender violence prevention, diversity and sexual health education. In his fifteen-plus years as an educator, Duane has facilitated hundreds of trainings — for both mixed gender and single gender groups — reaching thousands of:
- Youth in detention centers
– Middle and high school students
– Men enrolled in batterer intervention programs
– College/University students, student-athletes, coaches, staff, and fraternity & sorority groups
– Professional athletes, coaches and/or staff with the NFL, NBA, NHL and NASCAR
– Service men and women in the U.S. Marine Corps, Air Force and Air National Guard
Duane was one of only six Subject Matter Experts selected to train Air Force Sexual Assault Response Coordinators (SARCs) to deliver the groundbreaking Bystander Intervention curriculum that will reach over 600,000 Air Force personnel serving around the world. Additionally, Duane has worked with the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program, founded by Jackson Katz, for over ten years. He currently works as Project Manager for MIT’s Violence Prevention and Response (VPR) program and as an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University’s Foundation Year program, where he teaches Diversity, “Life Skills” and Information Literacy courses. On occasion, Duane also consults with Partners in Sex Education to conduct sexual health/healthy relationships classes primarily for male groups at various Massachusetts schools, organizations and treatment/revocation centers.
In addition to his work as an activist and educator, Duane is a writer for “The Takeback,” a blog about masculinity, politics, and culture where he writes under the pen name: TriniD4.
Active in his community, Duane was a Big Brother in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, a Little League Baseball umpire and a group facilitator at Emerge, where he co-facilitated two weekly batterer intervention groups for African American men. Currently, Duane sits on the board of the Transition House, a domestic violence shelter, education and outreach program in Massachusetts.
Duane holds a Bachelor of Science in Women’s Studies from the University of Utah and a Master of Arts in Marketing Communications from Emerson College. He has additionally completed the following specialized training/certification programs:
- Planned Parenthood Sexuality Education Certification
- Our Whole Lives (OWL) sexuality education, grades 7 – 9 & 10 – 12
- Massachusetts State certified batterer intervention program group leader training
- Over a hundred hours of crisis and hospital intervention training
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