Sheila M. McMahon, Ph.D., M.Div., MSW, LCSW

Sheila M. McMahon, Ph.D., M.Div., MSW, LCSW is currently the Visiting Scholar and Director for the Restorative Justice and Catholic Social Thought program at the Center for Restorative Justice, University of San Diego. She co-chairs the Restorative Justice Network of Catholic Campuses (RJNCC), which cultivates restorative principles and assists in implementation of restorative practices on member campuses. Her research and practice interests center on campus-based and community-level interventions, such as restorative justice (RJ) and transformative justice (TJ), to prevent and address sexualized violence, build a sense of community, and strengthen individual and collective well-being. She is engaged in collaborative research nationally which focuses on the role of trauma-informed, system-aware restorative justice (RJ) responses to sexual harm. She is a Co-PI for an OVW-funded $8 million grant for a 5-year research and evaluation project led by the NYU Center for Violence Recovery on restorative responses to sexual harm and intimate partner violence. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and later Rutgers University School of Social Work (Center on Ending Violence, formerly VAWC), Sheila is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida and New Hampshire.