Donnalynn Scillieri (she/her/hers) is a professor teaching: Gender, Culture and Sexuality, Diversity and Difference, Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, Gendered Lives and Societies, Sociology of Women, Women’s Changing Roles, Women’s Stories, Racism and Sexism, Principles of Sociology, Social Issues, Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Gender, and Human Sexuality. As a Human Rights advocate, she is a consultant, speaker, and moderator for events and trainings focusing on gender-based violence (domestic violence, sexual assault), human trafficking, LGBT rights and animal abuse and their intersections. Until recently, she was on the Board of Trustees for the New Jersey Coalition to End Domestic Violence and headed their LGBT Task Force to provide LGBT same-sex violence workshops at colleges, universities, women centers, and with law enforcement, while collaborating with the Women of Color Task Force to present intersectionality. With the New Jersey Coalition Against Human Trafficking, she participated in drafting legislation for the Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection and Treatment Act (A3352), signed into law on May 6, 2013 by Governor Christie. Donnalynn is a member of the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA), and volunteers extensively for Passaic County Women’s Center as a survivor’s advocate. She presented her Teach Not Judge: Embracing the LGBT Community at NJANSA and other higher education forums and it was recently adopted by the University of Texas. Donnalynn presented at the 16th Annual LGBTQ Leadership Conference at Pratt Institute - Suicidality and Understanding Our LGBTQ Students. Two of Donnalynn’s favorite panels have been, Human Trafficking in Our Back Yards with Homeland Security and the FBI and Women’s Rights Aren’t They Human Rights! bringing religious leaders (from rabbis, priests, ministers, Iman, and Wiccans) together for an honest conversation about LGBT community, domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, drug addiction in their communities.

As a fourteen and half year survivor of domestic violence, Donnalynn shares her journey in a book she is writing and lecturing about - Awakening and Rebirth Along the Journey of Hope about her story out of a domestic violence marriage.

Reflecting on her own early career days, as a Wall Street stock trader, Donnalynn is currently writing about her journey into the wilds of Wall Street in the late 1980’s from a Jersey, Italian American, educated, suburban family - We Aren't in Jersey, Anymore. The book will weave the context of the zeitgeist, as Donnalynn entered the world of Wall Street’s go go 80's, the era of the free market, mergers, hostile takeovers, and Reaganism.

Rolling her passion for Ancient Egypt, Women’s Studies and Wall Street, she is researching and writing about women in business over the centuries, beginning with the queens of Egypt to the women of Wall Street in the late 19th century.

Concerned about human and animal right and healing from pain, she works with animal rescues and people in pain because of the intersection of abuse.

She earned a BFA in Graphic Design and Art History from William Paterson University of New Jersey and an MA in Arts Management from Montclair State University.