Megan Andelloux
Founder & Director (megan@thecsph.org)
Photo Taken By Patrick O'Connor
Megan Andelloux is the founder and director of The CSPH. She is a nationally certified sexuality educator through The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists and a board certified sexologist through The American College of Sexologists.
Ms. Andelloux worked for nine years as a youth-focused sexuality educator in NY, RI, CT, and NJ before bringing her love for teaching at a locally run feminist sex-shop in Providence, RI. It was there that she began to notice adults did not have a space to ask questions and learn about sexuality. She also noticed adults hold many of the same questions teens do when it comes to sexual issues. The challenge was set before her: create a space for adults to safely learn medically accurate, sex-positive information in a comforting environment. Thus The CSPH was born.
She is a a sought-after sexuality consultant for local and national media, and is a contributing author in the books “We Got Issues” A Feminist Response to Cultural Attitudes On Feminism and the Sex and Society. Ms. Andelloux was named ” Vagina Warrior of the Year” from the Vagina Monologues for her work regarding sexual communication and fear reduction. She has been labeled by the Rhode Island press as “The Princess of Pleasure” and more recently, “The Sex Ed Warrior Queen” as she is on a mission to promote sexual health, wellness, and communication.
Ms. Andelloux lectures internationally at colleges, universities, medical schools, and sexuality institutions on issues surrounding sexual pleasure, sexual health, politics, and erotic justice. To date, she has taught at over three dozen higher educational institutions, including medical schools and Ivy league universities such as Brown, Yale, and Harvard.
She is listed on Wikipedia as an American Feminist, Writer and Sex Educator and on the Erotic Heritage Museum’s Hall of Heros, which showcases icons of sexual revolution.
She has worked full-time in the field of Sexual Education for more than twelve years.
For more information, visit www.ohmegan.com.
Aida E. Manduley
Programming & Development Coordinator (aida@thecsph.org)
Aida Esther Manduley graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in Gender & Sexuality Studies, a passion for social change, and a year-long CSPH internship under her belt. An organizational powerhouse during her time at Brown, upon graduation she came on staff wielding spreadsheets an ideas to make the Center grow sustainably. Not one to stop multitasking upon graduation, outside of The CSPH Aida has many other projects, which include co-chairing SHEEC, working at Sojourner House and talking tech at a local senior center. Through her various endeavors, she hopes to challenge those around her, equip people with tools for self-empowerment, and promote a wider spectrum of fulfilling sexuality. She is also deeply committed to exploring issues such as class, language, and ethnicity to better provide accessible educational resources that are not only accurate, but also fun and relevant to various communities. You can find her personal blog by clicking on this link.
Talia Daglieri
Administrative Assistant (info@thecsph.org)
Talia Daglieri graduated from Salve Regina University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Religious Studies. In January 2010, she became an intern at the CSPH because she wanted to help with community outreach and sex awareness. After several months of researching and creating pamphlets on various sexual issues and topics, she agreed to become a part of the CSPH staff! Talia loved her experience as an intern, especially the opportunities to learn about new areas of sexuality and to meet some of the amazing people in the field, and wants to become more involved in helping the Center progress as well as spreading sex knowledge and positivity. Talia hopes to go to graduate school in the near future and become a sex therapist.
Satellite Team:
Rebecca Alvarez
Rebecca Alvarez emerged as a fledgling sex educator in 2004 with the women owned-and-run sex shop Babeland in New York City. She has also shared her well-informed perverted side with the Indypendent newspaper, the Sex Herald, the Penn Sexpert site and the Instant Pleasure WDNR radio show. In 2009, she co-founded ScrewSmart, a Philadelphia-based sex education collaborative. Currently, she works as a Gynecological Teaching Associate and as the facilitator-coordinator for the American Medical Student Association’s Sexual Health Scholar’s program while earning her dual masters degree in Social Work and Education in Human Sexuality at Widener University. Most recently, she began working as a satellite educator with The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health.
Kira Manser
Kira Manser traces her sex education roots from Miko, a feminist run sex shop in Providence, to her current position at The Velvet Lily, a sex shop in Philly. Besides being a retail goddess, she’s coordinated a high school peer sex education program, collaboratively helped to start a sexuality resource center in Providence, and facilitated a college workshop on Female Sexuality. Currently, she can be found working on a dual masters program in social work and education in human sexuality at Widener University. She brings home the bacon working as a Gynecological Teaching Associate (GTA), loves her time facilitating and coordinating the AMSA’s Sexual Health Scholar’s Program, and is ready to chat about her current labor of love, the sex education collaborative ScrewSmart. Finally, Kira is psyched to be recently added to the educator team at The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health.
