Meet Seth
Seth Quam
Health Promotion and Violence Prevention Program Manager

Seth (he/him) currently works as the Health Promotion and Violence Prevention Program Manager within the Center for Well-Being at the University of St. Thomas. In this role he coordinates the violence prevention programming across the university and supervises the Peer Health Educator program. This includes developing, facilitating, and evaluating workshops on topics including healthy masculinity, bystander intervention, sexual violence prevention, and healthy relationships. He has facilitated more than one hundred workshops impacting thousands of students over the last 3 years.
Seth also works part-time as a co-facilitator of the Southwest Crisis Center’s Domestic Abuse Transformation Program. Sometimes called “batterers intervention” or “partner abuse intervention,” this group is for men who have caused harm in relationships to develop healthy relationship skills, grow to be accountable for their past harm, and set goals for their future.
Seth received his Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of Illinois Chicago in 2022. While he worked as a graduate assistant at the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center and held internships at the Center for Advancing Domestic Peace and READI Chicago.
From 2017-2019 he worked as Youth Outreach Coordinator at the Southwest Crisis Center in Worthington, Minnesota. He was a youth advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and sex trafficking, in addition to working in the community to prevent these forms of violence.
Seth graduated from Syracuse University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in the Maxwell School, majoring in Citizenship and Civic Engagement and Geography, with a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies.
In his free time Seth enjoys playing basketball, bike rides, cheering on the Boston Celtics and Minnesota Vikings, pottery, competing in Star Trek trivia, and spending time with his fiancee, their dog, and two cats.


