Aidan McDonough (he/they) graduated in May of 2024 with a B.A. in Psychology and a Certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies. Aidan is a first generation college student who recently finished his application for a Counseling M.S. program with UW–Madison. Aidan is a passionate consumer of movies and music and currently works as an Amazon …
Alex Garcia (she/her) graduated from UW–Madison in 2009 with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and a certificate in Women’s Studies, followed by a Master’s in Social Work in 2010. After graduation, she worked in in-home and community-based hospice care in Milwaukee until 2012, after which she transitioned to the Emergency Department at UW Hospital …
Cate Wiley (she/her) graduated with a Ph.D. from UW–Madison in 1990 in English with a Women’s Studies minor Check out her work here and listen to her talk about her new play Sheltered here. Bio and Background: share anything you’d like to about yourself and what you are up to now! I grew up in …
Maya Cherins (she/her) graduated from UW–Madison in May 2022 with majors in Gender and Women’s Studies and Community and Nonprofit Leadership and a certificate in Global Health. After graduating, she took a brief gap year to travel and explore and actually lived in Sydney, Australia for six months with an 86-year-old grandmother! Today, she lives …
Amanda Gennerman (she/her) graduated from UW–Madison in 2000 with a dual degree in Women’s Studies and Afro-American Studies (which is what both programs were called back then!) She has practiced immigration law exclusively since her graduation from the University of Denver – Sturm College of Law in 2003 and opened a solo practice dedicated to …
Shaniya Auxier (she/her) graduated from UW–Madison in the spring of 2022, with a major in Psychology and a certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies. Since graduation, Shaniya has been a teaching assistant in the UW–Madison Psychology department, a research assistant in a UMass-Amherst Psychology lab, and (successfully!) applied to Psych PhD programs. She will be …
Ollie (he/they) is a 2023 grad from the GWS MA program. He is currently the co-owner of The Big Gay Market LLC, a barista, a visual artist, and a beginning taxidermist for their business, The Rat Tail. How does GWS matter in the day-to-day of your professional life? Every day I make choices within my …
This past April 2024, we practiced joy in community by hosting our very first alumni and student campfire! For this event, we invited five of our awesome alumni to visit with undergraduate students, speak about their experiences post-graduation, answer questions, make s’mores, and share in some general merriment with music and beautiful weather around a …
Adrian Lampron uses they/them pronouns, and graduated from UW in 2022 with majors in History and Political Science and a LGBTQ+ Studies Certificate. Adrian is from Minnesota, and currently lives in Madison with their partner and pet snake. Since August of 2022, they have worked as a Compliance and Operations Assistant at Tammy Baldwin for …
Helen Rottier (she/her) is the Program Coordinator for the Disability Cultural Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After graduating from UW–Madison with a BS in Psychology and Certificate in GWS in 2018, Helen began her graduate program in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She earned her MS in Disability and Human Development …