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Dr. Sheila M. McMahon

Dr. Sheila M. McMahon 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. 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 locally and nationally which focuses on the role of trauma-informed, system-aware restorative justice responses to sexual harm. She was the PI for the first study in the U.S. about early adopters of RJ and TJ for campus sexual misconduct; participated on the research team for the U.S. National Restorative Justice Research Community, an interdisciplinary academic community that supports research on restorative justice to improve outcomes and address inequities in the U.S. criminal legal system; and served as Co-PI for a pilot study on restorative justice responses to military sexual trauma. As a program evaluator, she is the PI for an empowerment evaluation process that examines RJ implementation on Catholic university campuses in the U.S. Trained at Harvard Divinity School and later at Rutgers University Center on Ending Violence, Sheila is a licensed clinical social worker in the U.S. and her work is guided by the insights of the survivors whom she has accompanied over the past two decades.