2011

• Committee: Ed Cohen, Ethel Brooks, Louisa Schein
• Post-MA Employment/Education: olunteer Coordiantor, Concho Valley Rape Crisis Center, San Angelo, TX. Campaign Associate, United Way Worldwide, San Angelo, TX. On-Call Advocate, Concho Valley Rape Crisis Center, San Angelo, TX
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: The Modern Vampire Phenomenon Paradox: Simultaneous Contradictions and Unlimited Limits
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/31111/

Jessica Landers received a B.A. from Indiana University in Psychology, Gender Studies, and Human Sexuality. After completing her M.A. at Rutgers, she worked an an on-call advocate at a rape crisis center in Texas and as a campaign associate for the United Way.

• Committee: Cheryl Clarke, Judith Gerson, Yana Rodgers
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Spotlight on Girls with Women & Girls in the Media

• Committee: Angelique Hauderud, Ethel Brooks, Yana Rodgers
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Executive Director, Fiji Women's Rights Movement
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Imagining Women Human Rights Defenders: Neoliberalism, NGOs and Transnational Feminist Activism with Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (Center for Women's Global Leadership

Tara Chetty is a feminist activist from Suva, who has a long history of engagement with the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement. She was a former FWRM Management Board member, Young Women’s Working Group member and a former Communications Officer. Tara left the Movement in 2009, to pursue a Master of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies in the United States, on a Fulbright scholarship.  In the course of her academic research, she worked with the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRDIC), then based out of the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) at Rutgers University. After graduation in 2011, Tara returned to Fiji and human rights work in the Pacific, with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Pacific Regional Office.

• Committee: Louisa Schein, Ethel Brooks, Carlos Decena
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Research Associate, Institute for Families (Rutgers University) Research Assistant, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (Princeton University) Research Assistant, Center for Behavioral Health Services and Criminal Justice Research (Rutgers University)
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Coming Out of the Confessional: James E. McGreevey and the Gay American Construct
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/31017/

Kristen Catena has a B.A. in Sociology from Susquehanna University.

• Committee: Elizabeth Grosz, Mary Gossy, Karen Alexander
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Founder and Designer, Hippocamp Cards, Chicago, IL
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Repetition, Alignment & Curvature
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/36557/

Alicia Barks graduated in 2006 from Truman State University with a bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, English, and Communications Studies. After a short time as a newspaper reporter, she worked on issues of women's employment and economic security at a national non-profit in Washington, D.C. She came to Rutgers from a social service position in Durham, NC. Her research interests center around the gender dynamics of poverty.