Deborah Tolman

[8] In October 2010, Tolman co-founded SPARK (Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge), an intergenerational "girl-fueled" movement building organization (with Lyn Mikel Brown) dedicated to challenging the sexualization of girls by engaging girls to be activists and working with partner organizations around the country.

In 2018 Tolman founded SexGenLab, a sexuality and gender educational tool and research collective, in partnership with Graduate Center CUNY students.

The documentary follows the life and career of actress and model Brooke Shields from her exploitation as a child star to her work as an adult.

Her collaboration with Carol Gilligan led to the creation of “The Listening Guide” methodology, a research method used to interpret subject interview transcripts with an emphasis on vocal communication cues.

Tolman's work and commentary on adolescent sexuality and challenging sexualization has appeared in The New York Times,[16] The Huffington Post, and multiple radio, television and online venues, including New York City's Joan Hamburg radio show[17] and Brian Lehrer Show.