1996

• Committee: Sherry Gorelick, Louise Barnett, Dawn Esposito, Barbara Callaway
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Administrative Public Information Specialist, Department of Homeless Services, New York City
• Thesis/Practicum: Not Quite White, Not Quite Black

Barbara Brancaccio served as the Executive Deputy Commissioner for Public Information at the New York City Department of Social Services/Human Resources Administration. As the agency’s chief spokesperson and communications director, Brancaccio serves as liaison to the Mayor’s press office and is a principal advisor to the agency’s Commissioner. Prior to her appointment in 2006, Brancaccio was Executive Director for WomenCare Inc. and College and Community Fellowship, two nonprofit organizations for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women. Brancaccio served as the Treasurer of the Advisory Board for Bayview Correctional Facility and is a Founding Board Member for the Learning Center for Women in Prison, a college program sponsored by Bard College for women incarcerated at the facility. Additionally, Brancaccio curated the Film Festival at the 10th National Roundtable for Women in Prison,and produced Surviving Justice: The Women in Prison Film Showcase, held in 2001 at Anthology Film Archives in New York City. Brancaccio began her career as Special Assistant to New York City Council Member Ronnie Eldridge, and in 2005 she was the Campaign Manager for New York City Council member Margarita Lopez, a candidate for Manhattan Borough President. With Joshua Zeman, she co-directed the documentary Cropsey (2009).

• Committee: Susan Carroll, Louisa Schein, Charlotte Bunch
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Management Analyst, Deschutes County Community Justice, Redmond, Oregon
• Thesis/Practicum: Woman, Nation, Violation: Spectacle or Strategy?

Deevy Holcomb is a Management Analyst for a county Juvenile Community Justice department in Central Oregon. After her masters degree, she lived and worked in Johannesburg/Pretoria South Africa as writer/editor and research coordinator for a local government NGO called Idasa, for four years, which assisted in building local government institutions and practices in communities disenfranchised during apartheid. During this time, she conducted a significant amount of research, training and consulting on women's role in local government. She’s also involved in the regional Peace movement in her private life, trying to keep this part of the world connected to the rest of the world, and understand better its role in the greater community of our planet. No further school since Rutgers; she has discovered through the Masters program that her feminist energies and skills were most satisfied and productive outside the academy. She does miss participating in a community of thinkers and philosophers, though.

• Committee: Cathy Greenblat, Sherry Gorelick, Barbara Callaway
• Thesis/Practicum: Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition HIV/AIDS, Inc (NYC)

• Committee: Meredith Turshen, Sherry Gorelick, Sara Rosenfeld
• Dissertation: Practicum: HIV/AIDS and Asian American Women with NJ Women and AIDS Network, Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Inc.

• Dissertation: Practicum Site: Thinking Local, Thinking Global: Race, Policy, & Reproductive Freedom