NINA CUMMINGS is a PhD candidate at Cornell and an Adjunct Faculty member at Ithaca College. She is also a University Victim Advocate and a Cornell Advocate for Rape Education, as well as a Certified Health Educator. She coauthored with Parrot the book Forsaken Females: The Brutalization of Women. Cummings and Parrot also coauthored articles that have been published in the Journal of American College Health, Vital Signs, and RESPONSE: Journal of the Center for Women's Policy Studies. In 2001, Cummings won the Cornell University Presidential Advisory Committee on the Status of Women Award.