GWS is launching a new virtual alumni book club – The Stories Between! Beginning January 2025 we will meet once a month to read and discuss feminist texts. We begin with Dr. Judy Houck’s 2024 book Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. Sign up below to reserve a space and receive a …
Hello dear Gender and Women’s Studies and LGBTQ+ Studies community, With the shift of daylight savings, and the turning of the calendar from the season of light to dark, we take stock of where we are in GWS and LGBTQ+ Studies and continue to find ways to make our own light amid grief, rage, and …
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 …
Abigail Perkins (she/her) graduated in May 2023 with a degree in English and certificates in GWS and African American Studies. She is currently taking a gap year in her hometown before returning to graduate school in the fall, where she will pursue a Master of Arts-Business in Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership at UW–Madison. She …