WGS Alumni Are Leaders in Their Fields

Andrew Anastasia '06 minor

• Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Frostburg State University, Maryland.

• Continues to present his scholarship at the National Women's Studies Association conferences.

Brooke Barnhart '15 minor

• Completed her first year in the Gender and Women's Studies Master's Program at University of Wisconsin - Madison.

• Served as a teaching assistant for both Introduction to LGBTQ Studies and the Introduction to WGS course.

Emma Belz '15 minor

Emma is pursuing her Master's degree in College Personnel Administration at Illinois State University and is currently working as a graduate assistant in Heartland Community College's Office of Engagement. She is an intern in Health Promotion and Wellness working on survivor support services and violence prevention education. She also volunteers with Stepping Stones.

Tomas Bolivar '14 minor

• Admissions Counselor at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.He uses his WGS knowledge every day to craft diversity initiatives for a new recruitment protocol.

• Recently accepted into the Women and Gender Studies Master’s Program at Loyola.

Erin Frost

Erin Frost '13 certificate

• Erin is an assistant professor at East Carolina University, where she specializes in feminist approaches to technical communication.

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Jenna Goldsmith '08 minor, '10 certificate

• Jenna earned her PhD in English from the University of Kentucky in 2016. She is an instructor of writing at Oregon State University Cascades, a brand new OSU branch campus in Bend, Oregon. She teaches all levels of writing, including first-year composition, argumentation, technical writing, and grammar, as well as a smattering of American literature and environmental literature for the American Studies and Liberal Studies programs. Visit her website.

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Malia Haanio '15 minor

• Recently returned from China where she taught kindergarten and 1st grade English language.

• Accepted a position in a domestic violence and sexual assault prevention organization in Denver, Colorado.

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Emily Johnston '16 Graduate Certificate

Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Writing Pedagogy at the University of Delaware, where she teaches and researches ways of writing and teaching for social justice. Her current project is developing a transforming rape culture curriculum for first-year writing programs.

Danny Matthews

Danny Matthews '11 minor

• Assistant Director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center within the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations at University of Illinois.

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Kevin Mell '16 minor

Started his first year in the DePaul University College of Law, where he is a student member of the National Lawyers Guild. He is also a trained Legal Observer who monitors police conduct during organized actions and ensures that activists who are arrested during a protest are given access to a pro bono attorney.

Matt Rillie '15 minor

• Works for DreamBikes, a non-profit organization that strategically places used bicycle stores in traditionally marginalized communities based in Madison, Wisconsin.

• "The WGS program has been the rock of my education. My experience has helped me view every situation with such critical frameworks."

Flourice Richardson '15 certificate

• Has had a major publication in Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication by editors Dr. Miriam F. Williams and Dr. Octavio Pimental.

• Completed doctorate in English Studies at ISU.

• Served as an instrumental leader in the creation of Umoja: Celebration of Black Graduates on ISU's campus.

Fabiola Rosiles

Fabiola Rosiles '16 minor

• Currently pursuing her master's degree in women's and gender studies at DePaul University in Chicago, where she focuses on analyzing systems of oppression towars people of color in academic spaces and the experiences of Latinas in the academy.

• Serves as graduate assistant with Take Back the Halls, a teen dating violence prevention and community activism program, and works with the DePaul Women's Center.

Erica Thurman '09 minor

• Writes and manages grants and contracts with the National Partnership for Women and Families, in Washington, D.C.

• Has had six book chapters accepted for publication in a three-book series on race and American television.

• Blogs at Life Behind the Veil.

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Katelyn Wood '07 minor

• Began a tenure-track position in theater history and performance studies at the University of Virginia.

• Working on book manuscript about the politics of U.S. Black feminist comedic performance in 20th and 21st century.