Aly Tadros

Aly Tadros (she/her) joined SVR in 2024. In her role as Assistant Director, Sexual Violence Response at the CUIMC campus, Aly is responsible for outreach, prevention, and direct services programming aimed at ending power-based violence in all its forms. She delivers trauma-informed support to survivors of sexual, gender-based, and intimate partner violence, stalking, and harassment. Her role includes providing crisis intervention and advocacy at the CUIMC campus, as well as supporting SVR’s prevention education work, Peer Advocates, and the 24/7 crisis response team.

Aly Tadros has nearly two decades of advocacy and direct service experience at the intersection of fine arts and social impact.

Prior to Columbia Health, she served as a lecturer and graduate fellow at Queens College, City University of New York, where she developed and implemented anti-racist pedagogical approaches for first-year writing students. Prior to her academic role, Aly was the Special Projects Manager and Community Programs Manager at the Crime Victims Treatment Center in New York City. In this capacity, she supported over 500 on-call rape crisis and domestic violence counselors and forensic examiners across seven major hospitals, scaling the organization's outreach and impact on affected communities. She also created and co-facilitated CVTC's therapeutic writing group for trauma survivors.

Aly is also an accomplished freelance journalist, she has published essays on gender, agency, and consent has been featured in The New York Times, Narratively, and the Brooklyn Rail.

Aly aims to leverage her diverse and creative expertise to advance the university’s mission in supporting trauma survivors through informed, compassionate, and effective responses.

When Aly’s not at CUIMC, you can find her teaching memoir writing at the Manhattan JCC, marathon training, or hiking with Casino, her 85-lb black-lab golden retriever mix.

Professional Experience:

  • Lecturer and Graduate Fellow, Queens College (City University of New York)
  • Special Projects Manager, Crime Victims Treatment Center in New York City
  • Community Programs Manager, Crime Victims Treatment Center in New York City

Education:

  • B.A., Liberal Arts - The New School
  • M.F.A., Creative Writing and Literary Translation, Queens College at the City University of New York

Certifications and Licensure:

  • New York State Department of Health Certified Rape Crisis Counselor - 2018

Languages Spoken:

  • English
  • Spanish
  • Turkish