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From 1988 to 1998, Katz oversaw Real Men, a grass-roots organization that took charitable and educational action against sexism in Boston.
Katz co-founded Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) in 1993 at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. MVP has been implemented by hundreds of Division 1, 2 and 3 college athletic programs, numerous NFL teams and Major League Baseball clubs (including the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox), NASCAR, and the United States Marine Corps.
Katz founded MVP Strategies 1997, which provides gender violence prevention training and materials to U.S. school districts, municipalities, human service programs, small and large corporations, law enforcement agencies, and military services.
Since 1990, Katz has lectured at over 1200 colleges, universities, public and private high schools, professional conferences and military installations in 47 states, five Canadian provinces and many other countries. He has conducted workshops, seminars, and trainings in the U.S. and Canada, as well as throughout Europe, and in Australia and Japan. He has appeared on a number of television programs including "Good Morning America," "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "ABC News 20/20."
Katz also consults with educational institutions, non-profits, municipal, state and federal governments and corporations ranging from the World Health Organization to The Liz Claiborne Company about strategies to promote gender equality and prevent gender violence, gay-bashing and other forms of bullying behavior in schools, the workplace and in the larger society. In March 2000, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen appointed Katz to the U.S. Secretary of Defense's Task Force on Domestic Violence in the Military, where he served from 2000-2003.
Katz currently is an expert consultant to the U.S. Air Force bystander intervention training and also acts as Director of the first global gender violence prevention program in the U.S. Marine Corps. Katz and his colleagues have also conducted trainings for the U.S. Army in Iraq, and MVP has been piloted around the world by the U.S. Navy.
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