Satarupa Dasgupta, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts (Applied Communication) at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Her research focuses on health communication, program development and evaluation, and social outreach, with experience spanning academia, and not for profit sector. She has worked on violence prevention among commercial sex workers, prevention of sex trafficking and rehabilitation of sex trafficking survivors in international settings, and also intimate partner violence support service provision among immigrant communities in the US. Other than being an academic, she has been a sexual assault advocate in her state of residence and has worked in the implementation of federally funded domestic violence and sexual assault support services programs among immigrant populations. She possesses extensive track record of producing peer reviewed publications and grant writing. She has served several national and international organizations as Program Chair and she is on the editorial board for several journals.