Tina O. Hageman is the Project Director of the Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence and Animal Abuse research project and an Adjunct Faculty at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. She has worked as an advocate for over 10 years, previously serving as Executive Program Director at a domestic violence program in Texas and Program Coordinator and Case Manager at a rape crisis center in Alabama. Tina holds a Masters of Social Work (MSW) and Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Washington University in St. Louis, where she also served as an Adjunct Faculty.