2012

• Committee: Ed Cohen, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Mary Gossy
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: City Chickens & Community Gardens :Discussion of Gender & Urban Chicken Farming in NY with Just Food (New York, NY)

• Committee: Jasbir Puar, Judith Gerson, Elizabeth Grosz
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing Ph.D. in Gender and Women's Studies, University of Arizona (2012)
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: In Between Bodies: Transitional Space & Feminist Politics
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/36672/

Abraham Weil completed a B.A. at the University of Redlands, studying Women and Gender Studies, Psychology, Race and Ethnic Studies and Film.

Evan Seehausen's work focuses on new media studies. He is especially interested in critical games studies and the formation of digital identities. He graduated from Penn State with B.A. degrees in both Philosophy and Women's Studies, where he worked with the Centre County Women's Resource Center as a crisis counselor helping those affected by domestic abuse and sexual assault.

• Committee: Mary Hawkesworth, Marisa Fuentes, Radhika Balakrishnan
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Paid internship program at Kudumbashree, a poverty reduction program in Kerala, India.
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Engendering the Common's Discourse with the Center for Women's Global Leadership (Rutgers University)

Sulekha Prasad is a graduate of Stony Brook University. She is of South Asian descent, but was born and raised in New York. She has been active in Women's Studies for eight years. Sulekha has worked for the Feminist Majority Alliance of Stony Brook University, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Association of Stony Brook University, the New York Public Interest Research Group of Stony Brook University, and currently with SAKHI for South Asian Women and Code Pink. Her work has primarily focused on human rights violations of women. On a local level Sulekha has helped educate and orient women who are new immigrants to the U.S., through a program called SAKHI (an anti-domestic violence abuse center).

• Committee: Jocelyn Elise Crowley, Judith Gerson, Mary Trigg
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Child Protective Services Specialist I, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Austin, TX
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: A Look is Enough: Interviews with Mothers of Children with Autism
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/37545/

Jennifer Parker graduated with honors from Rutgers University in Camden with a B.A. in Women's and Gender Studies. During her undergraduate career, she was awarded a research grant with which she completed a project titled "Mothers of Autistic Children 1940-1978: From Refrigerator Mothers to Neurobiology". With the guidance of Dr. Laurie Bernstein, she inspected how past mental health professionals blamed mothers for their children's autism and traced the etiological shift of the disorder. Jennifer was awarded the Dean's Prize for Undergraduate Research and the Women's Studies Prize for her work on this topic. She participated in and completed the NEW Leadership program run by the Rutgers Center for American Women in Politics, which sparked her interest in women's participation in politics. Jennifer's academic and philanthropic interests are broad, including issues of disability, contemporary and historical constructions of motherhood, women's health, and women and work.

• Committee: Mary Trigg, Julie Rajan, Cynthia Daniels
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: The Doula Project: Comprehensive Reproductive Justice with the Doula Project (New York, NY)

• Committee: Mary Trigg, Julie Ragan, Radhika Balakrishnan
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Culture & Human Rights with POKATUSA Peace & Development Program (Kenya)

• Committee: Savi Bisnath, Mary Hawkesworth
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London, UK under the supervision of Professor Naila Kabeer.
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Social Protection Mechanisms: Protecting Rights & Promoting Equality? with the Center for Women's Global Leadership (Rutgers)

Neha Kagal has a Masters degree in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai with a specialization In Public Health and Therapeutic Counselling. She has worked previously with HIV positive women facing violence, and women in prostitution in Mumbai. For the last three years Neha has been working as an Activist with a Trade Union of Ragpickers in Pune, India. Her work involves rights based advocacy with a focus on health and livelihoods. She is interested in issues related to women, violence and development in the Global South. She also enjoys exploring issues around sexuality, intimacy, caste and class.

• Committee: Mary Trigg, Stacy Klein, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric/Writing Studies at University of Arizona (2013)
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: It feels (w)ri(gh)t(e) to me: Feminist Identity and Academic Writing
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/37379/

Casely holds a B.A. in English and Women's Studies from Vassar College.

• Committee: Anna Sampaio, Radhika Balakrishnan, Carlos Decena
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Legislative Director, State Representative Mary Gonzalez of Texas.
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: The Anchor Baby: Discursive Constructions of Immigrant Subjects
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/37385/

Genevieve is a feminist activist who holds a B.A. in International Relations from St. Edward's University with a focus on human rights and women's rights. Her experiences in community and labor organizing informed her undergraduate research focus on issues of social justice, including policies addressing FGM in immigrant communities in the United States and Europe, the Global Gag Rule and its effects on women internationally, and published work on the history of Iraq under the British Mandate in the interwar period. Her work at Rutgers has addressed the human rights of undocumented immigrants and the impact of NAFTA on poverty in Mexico and trends in emigration from Mexico to the United States. Her MA thesis examines "anchor baby" rhetoric on cable news networks through critical discourse analysis and the consequences of this "anchor baby" discourse on the lived experiences of immigrant populations in the United States.