1 Technology, Art and Curriculum: Teaching and Learning About Sexual Violence in an Innovative Educational Platform In Session: Challenging Dominant Narratives of Sexual Violence Through Participatory Visual Methodologies Pempho Chinkondenji Ph.D. Student in Education Policy and Leadership- International Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst S M Hani Sadati Ph.D. Candidate in Educational Studies, McGill University Jackie Bousek, LCPC, ATR Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Loren Kleinman Instructor at Drew University, Poet, and the Author of Suffering Is the Easy Part Nassim Abdi Ph.D. in International Education Policy, Co-Founder of Docademia Introduction Docademia is an educational platform that promotes the ideas of underrepresented voices by bringing social documentaries into the classes, offering relevant curriculum, and creating the opportunity of live videoconferences among video-makers, students and the educators. The platform helps educators to organize their sessions with a multidimensional teaching style. The direct communication component of the platform facilitates difficult conversations (e.g. sexual assault experiences) by inviting individuals to be a primary source of story and experience-sharing in classrooms. This is an innovative classroom platform to bring stories of all groups into academia and make triangle bridges between storyteller/narrator/artist, audience/students, and educator (see the shape 1). Making this connection among different stakeholders introduces Docademia as one of the participatory visual methods that is able to empower the communities and contributes to having better understanding of the social environment. There is a hope that this contribution in bridging academia to the outside world can challenge the dominant narratives and help promote social change.