SPEAK for YOURSELF:
What Girls Say about What Girls Need
Research Team and Participants

Current Research Team

Lynn Phillips, Ph.D., research director
Kay Harned, research associate
Aimee Rickman, research associate


Lynn Phillips, Ph.D., is a social and developmental psychologist at Eugene Lang College of the New School University. Her areas of expertise include adolescent girls’ development, gender in education, violence and victimization, and female sexuality and relationships. Her publications include Flirting with Danger: Young Women’s Reflections on Sexuality and Domination (NYU Press, 2000), The Girls Report: What We Know and Need to Know about Growing Up Female (National Council for Research on Women, 1998), and Unequal Partners: Exploring Power and Consent in Adult-Teen Relationships (Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern NJ, 1997). She received her doctorate with distinction from the University of Pennsylvania and was the recipient of the New School’s Distinguished University Teaching Award in 1993. In addition to teaching psychology and gender studies, Lynn writes, speaks, and consults regularly with organizations; her work has received national and international media attention.