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eli hess is an MSW student at the Portland State University School of Social Work. eli entered the field as a domestic violence crisis line advocate, and spent a cumulative six years working in intimate partner violence advocacy and prevention education. They currently work as a teaching assistant in the Child, Youth, and Family Studies program at Portland State University. eli’s research interests include sexualities in social work, social justice pedagogies, antiracism in violence prevention, and critical and radical epistemologies.