2014

• Research Interests: Globalization and multiculralism in Asia

• Committee: Mary Trigg, Judith Gerson, Thea Abu El-Haj
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Sexual Health Education Specialist, Sexetc.org
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: The Construction of an Anti-Feminist Pedagogy in an Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Curriculum
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/42487/

Kaitlyn received a B.A. in English and Women's and Gender Studies from The College of New Jersey. She is interested in issues of sex, sexuality, intersectionality, popular culture and looking at the world through a feminist lens. Kaitlyn is currently the Sexual Health Education Specialist at Answer’s teen website Sexetc.org. As the Sexual Health Education Specialist, Kaitlyn coordinates timely, medically-accurate, compelling content and works to add new educational features. She also works with the Sex, Etc. magazine’s teen editorial staff.

• Post-MA Employment/Education: Video Production Coordinator, Office of Instructional & Research Technology, Rutgers Univeristy

Laura received a B.A. in film from Cornell University in 2010

• Committee: Cheryl Clarke, Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Mary Gossy
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Assistant Director, Paul Robeson Cultural Center, Rutgers University
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Silence, Syntax, and Sex: Black Women Poets Moving Past a Culture of Dissemblance in the Post-Black Arts Movement
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/45693/

During her undergraduate study at Rutgers, Kiyanna Stewart double majored in Journalism and Africana Studies with a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. She is interested in the intersections between race and gender, centering her research on black women's literary/poetic cultural production. 

• Committee: Cynthis Daniels, Julie Rajan, Charlotte Bunch
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Marketing/Communications Associate, Center to Advance Palliative Care, New York City
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Shame and Blame Campaign: The Use of Shame in Teen Pregnancy Prevention Campaigns
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/44215/

Lauren is a feminist activist and freelance writer living in Asbury Park, NJ. She is a reproductive justice advocate and focuses on the use of shame in teen pregnancy prevention campaigns and abortion restriction laws, as well as state policing of women's bodies and sexualities.

• Committee: Mary Hawkesworth, Mary Trigg, Julie Rajan
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Administrative and Research Coordinator, Douglass Residential College, Rutgers University
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Community Leadership, Action, and Service Program (CLASP): Exploring Pedagogy in Community-Service Learning with the Institute for Women's Leadership (Rutgers University)

Jeremy LaMaster grew up in both Louisville, KY & Harrisburg. Jeremy held many leadership roles as an undergraduate in a variety of organizations including Fly Magazine, Penn State's only feminist publication, Rainbow Roundtable, the leadership council of Penn State's LGBTA groups, and Delta Lambda Phi, an international social fraternity. Jeremy also interned for Penn State's LGBTA Student Resource Center for 2 years and served as a teaching assistant for introductory Women Studies classes. Recently, Jeremy completed a summer internship with Advocates for Youth, a comprehensive sex education advocacy group in DC. While at Rutgers, Jeremy worked as a Program Assistant for the Institute for Women's Leadership and as a Program Director for the Community Leadership, Action, and Service Project, a program of the IWL. 

• Committee: Mary Hawkesworth
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing Ph.D. in Sociology at Indiana University (2014)
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Politicizing Global Health Inequailty

Amelia holds a B.A. in Sociology from Penn State, and she worked as an AmeriCorps Youth and Community Outreach Coordinator with the American Red Cross, Greater Steuben Chapter prior to her time at Rutgers.

• Committee: Mary Hawkesworth
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing Ph.D. in Sociology at Columbia Univeristy (2014)
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Epistemologies Incarnate: Organizational Systems for Prison Abolitionists with Justice Now (Oakland, CA)

Joss Greene received his B.A. from Scripps College with a dual major in History and Gender & Women's Studies. His most exciting intellectual work has arisen at the synthesis of his political, creative, academic interests. In his undergraduate years, these projects included examining the racialized citizenship discourses circulating around people with HIV/AIDS and exploring the erasure of race and class differences in the positioning of transgender students as a threat to "shared womanhood" at women's colleges. After graduating college, Joss began working at a San Francisco high school, performed a new dance piece about privilege and representation of trans experience, and deepened his commitment to grassroots queer politics.

• Committee: Louisa Schein, Abena Busia, Julie Rajan
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing Ph.D. in Gender Studies at Indiana University (2014)
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: The Displays, Silences, and Aesthetic Possibilities of Museum Fashion's Gendered Geopolitics
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/44110/

Daniela Gutiérrez was born in Bogotá, Colombia, where she lived most of her life, except for her elementary school years, when she lived in Piscataway, NJ, and Raleigh, North Carolina. For her bachelor's degree, she majored in Literature, particularly researching gender issues in 19th century French and English, and 20th century Latin American authors.

• Committee: Judith Gerson, Mary Trigg, Marisa Fuentes
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Prevention or Perpetuation: An Analysis of Youth Sexual Violence Prevention Programs
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/42367/