The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies loves to highlight the work and experience of our alumni. This is a place to find inspiration in reading about what GWS and/or LGBTQ+ Studies alumni are up to – what their professional work looks like, how GWS and/or LGBTQ+ Studies informed their career paths, what they felt were their most helpful undergraduate experiences, and what they remember most fondly from their time in our department.
Alumni Spotlight: Nyesha Brown, Class of 2017
Nyesha Brown, Class of 2017, graduated with majors in Gender & Women’s and Human Development and Family Studies. Learn more about what Nyesha is doing today. Describe your work. How did you get to this …
Alumni Spotlight: Hope Tyson, Class of 2012
Hope Tyson, Class of 2012, graduated with majors in Women’s Studies and Latin American Studies. Learn more about the work Hope is doing today. Describe your work. How did you get to this point in …
Bill Basquin – Alumni Spotlight, Class of 2011
Bill Basquin, class of 2011, graduated with a Philosophy major and a Gender and Women’s Studies certificate. Bill completed most of their undergraduate coursework in the late 1980s and early 1990s, circling back to finish …
Shaunna Newton – Alumni Spotlight, Class of 2017
Shaunna Newton graduated from UW-Madison with majors in Gender and Women’s Studies and Spanish and a certificate in Global Health in 2017. Shaunna completed a MPH at the University of Maryland in 2019. How does …
Caitlin Flynn – Alumni Spotlight, Class of 2016
Caitlin Flynn graduated in 2016 with majors in Journalism and International Studies and a certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies. Currently, Caitlin is a graduate student at the Fletcher School at Tufts University pursuing Law …
Liv Estrella Yang – Alumni Spotlight, Class of 2015
Liv Estrella Yang is the founder and CEO of Faceted Beauty™. Liv graduated from UW-Madison in 2015 with a Sociology major and the Gender and Women’s Studies certificate. Read Liv’s reflections below on the role …
Ed Graves – Alumni Spotlight, Class of 2006
Ed Graves graduated from UW-Madison in 2006 with majors in Agricultural Science and Rural Sociology (now Community and Environmental Sociology) and an LGBTQ+ Studies certificate. In 2009, Ed completed a MLIS in Information Science from …
Peter Zook – Alumni Spotlight, Class of 2010
Peter Zook graduated from UW-Madison in 2010 with majors in Sociology, Journalism & Mass Communications; and Certificates in LGBT Studies and African Studies. He is now a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Philadelphia, PA. How …
Want to suggest someone for the spotlight? Want to nominate yourself?
Contact the Chair of the Alumni Committee, Nina Valeo Cooke, at nina.valeo.cooke@wisc.edu for more information.