Team

Sacchi Patel (Co-Founder)

M.S. Cultural Foundations of Education (Syracuse University’11)
C.A.S. Women & Gender Studies (Syracuse University’11)
B.A. Psychology and Child Family Studies (Syracuse University’09)

Sacchi Patel is an established social justice educator, speaker, and activist specializing in masculinity and (primary) violence prevention.  His academic and professional work focuses on the various reasons and ways in which men & boys ought to join the Anti-Violence Movement.  Currently, Sacchi serves as Manager of Education and Emergency Response at the Sexual Assault & Relationship Abuse Education & Response (SARA) Office at Stanford University while still holding board affiliations (remotely) with New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA), and the Substance Abuse & Cultural Art Committees within the Municipality of Hanover Township, NJ.

Sacchi has earned a B.A. in Psychology with a Minor in Child & Family Studies; M.S. in Cultural Foundations of Education; & a C.A.S. in Women & Gender Studies all from during his time studying at Syracuse University.  Additionally, he has also taught classes at the Syracuse University Intergroup Dialogue Program on the intersectionality of race, gender, & dialogue in creating positive social change.

As a passionate activist against violence, Sacchi recently worked at the Jersey Battered Women’s Service as an Abuse Prevention Manager where he worked closely with middle schools, high schools, and colleges, in Morris County, NJ and focused on programming with at-risk youth and men and boys.  Additionally, Sacchi served as the Graduate Assistant of the Syracuse University R.A.P.E. Center.  He was involved with A Men’s Issue (AMI), a student group dedicated to examining issues of masculinity and gender violence for six years. He has served as AMI President and went on to be Faculty/Staff mentor. Sacchi is trained as a staff facilitator for the Mentors in Violence Prevention program (MVP) for campus and community application.

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Marc Peters (Co-Founder)

Master in Public Service Candidate (Clinton School of Public Service)
B.A. Policy Studies and Newspaper Journalism (Syracuse University)

Marc currently works as part of the internet marketing team at Heifer International while completing his graduate work at the Clinton School of Public Service. He has become increasingly engaged in the Arkansas community, serving as a board member for National Alliance on Mental Illness: Arkansas and coaching a basketball team at the North Little Rock Boys and Girls Club.

Marc is a noted mental health advocate and has worked nationwide with Active Minds, Inc. to organize students to decrease the stigma surrounding mental health issues. He recently served as a regular blogger for Glenn Close’s mental health advocacy group: BringChange2Mind.

Marc has also distinguished himself in politics working for Mark Critz’s successful special election congressional campaign. He got his start as a press intern in the U.S. Senate and then worked for a national political action committee. From 2007-2008, Marc worked as national student blog director for the Obama for America presidential campaign. In 2004, he was inducted as a Horatio Alger National Scholar and in 2007 was recognized as one of the top 65 public servants in his graduating class by the Harry S. Truman Foundation.

He notes his most meaningful experiences at Syracuse University as participating in A Men’s Issue for four years and working with the Jenna Foundation for Nonviolence on a nonviolence mentoring program for Syracuse City Schools. Marc has spoken at Mobilize.org’s Party for the Presidency, Active Minds’ National Mental Health on Campus Conference, Syracuse University’s Orientation Week, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, University of the District of Columbia and the University of Maryland.

Tremayne D. Robertson (Speaker/Facilitation Expert)

Doctoral Candidate in Cultural Foundations of Education (Syracuse University)
C.A.S. Candidate Women & Gender Studies (Syracuse University)
M. Ed. in Education Policy Studies (University of Virginia)

Tremayne’s passion for social consciousness began during his undergraduate years at the University of Virginia (UVA) while enrolled in multicultural education. Yet, meeting Don McPherson at Syracuse University (SU) and collaborating with colleagues and friends in the SU R.A.P.E. Center led to feminism and the birth of A Men’s Issue (AMI). Tremayne learned from and with undergraduate men that challenged their own ideas about sexism and patriarchy while redefining manhood and masculinity.

Subsequently, doctoral training and a broader aspiration to be a pro-feminist Black man engendered research on the social construction of Black masculinity. Tremayne currently works as an Associate Director at SU in Multicultural Affairs.

Also, he is a Faculty Co-facilitator with the Intergroup Dialogue Program at SU and has taught courses on gender and sexual orientation. Additionally, Tremayne has attended trainings at Men Can Stop Rape (Washington, DC) Mentors In Violence Prevention (Boston, MA) and facilitated Alternative’s batters courses with Vera House Inc. in Syracuse, NY.

Tremayne co-founded and was the first advisor of A Men’s Issue (AMI) at Syracuse University (spring 2003) and was subsequently honored as a Vagina Warrior by the cast of the Vagina Monologues at SU in 2004 for his efforts to ‘end sexual violence one man at a time.’ Almost nine years later AMI has received numerous commendations and is recognized nationally as force against sexual violence on college campuses.