2003
2003
Dahl, Ingrid
- Committee: Ethel Brooks, Judith Gerson, Mary Trigg
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Director of Next Gen Programs, Bay Area Video Coalition
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: "I Want to Rock Out!" On Acting Rather than Appearing: The Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls with Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls (NYC)
| Ingrid directs all Next Generation (youth) programs at BAVC. Formerly a program officer of youth media and editor-in-chief of Youth Media Reporter at the Academy for Educational Development, Ingrid has extensive knowledge of the youth media field as an intermediary, leading a National Youth Media Summit in 2009 and the GFEM Investing in Youth Media funder briefing. She also has a history of working with youth on the ground, launching a middle grade "Youth Create Media Project" throughout the boroughs in New York City and Newark, NJ; and, she is a founding member of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls (Brooklyn, NY) where she teaches girls expression/empowerment through music and collaboration. Dahl lectures nationally and internationally on youth media, gender and music, and social change. She has also taught courses at Rutgers University on imagery and culture, media and pop culture, as well as created her own course on Riot Grrrl and public speaking at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. |
Darooka, Priti
- Committee: Jennifer Jones, Charlotte Bunch
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Executive Director, Programme on Women's Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Creating Asian Women Space on the Rutgers Campus
| Priti Darooka is the founder and executive director of PWESCR (The Programme on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights). Working in partnership with diverse groups and networks, she continues to provide support and is part of several initiatives on women's poverty, right to livelihoods including right to land, social security and right to food. With expertise on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, she works closely with the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) and various UN rapporteurs. She has assisted women from civil society groups from several countries to participate in CESCR review process. She was previously at the Ford Foundation, in New York and assisted the Foundation in its grant making in the areas of International Human Rights; Women's Rights and Gender Equity; and International Economic Policy. She also helped the Foundation in the creation of ESCR net and in linking works of feminist economist with human rights advocates. Prior to the Ford Foundation, she was at UNIFEM (United Nation's Development Funds for Women) where she worked on violence against women indicators and assessment and coordinating UNIFEM's work in Afghanistan. As a consultant to the Center for Women's Global Leadership, she organized a women's rights hearing at the UN conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa |
Delaney, Jodi
- Committee: Nancy Hewitt, Margaret Marsh, Jennifer Jones
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Chief Development Officer, The Youth Policy Institute
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Monsters and Angels: Discourse and Counter-Discourse on Stepmothers in the United States, 1830-1860
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Jodi Delaney has raised funds for and managed numerous large-scale initiatives for over 20 years. Most recently Los Angeles Program Director at the Trust for Public Land, she spent six years in the administration of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, in both the Economic Development Department and Department of Cultural Affairs. She was also Executive Director of New Mexico’s statehood centennial, a wide-ranging commemoration that involved over 300 projects among diverse communities in 33 counties, as well as the establishment of the Centennial Children’s Legacy Fund. Jodi’s career began as Development Director at Dance Theater Workshop and Dancing in the Streets in New York, where she raised funds from government, corporations, foundations and individuals to support the work of hundreds of artists, including youth and family programming. Jodi lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children |
Erbe-Maltabes, Diane
- Committee: Charlotte Bunch, Ethel Brooks, Jennifer Jones
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Career Coach, Henkels & McCoy
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Center for Women's Global Leadership
Jang, Soo Jung
- Committee: Mary Trigg, Ethel Brooks, Mary Hawkesworth
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Professor, Department of Social Welfare, Dankook University (Yongin, South Korea)
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: The Politics of Diversity Issues in the Workplace with the Center for Women and Work (Rutgers University)
| After completing an M.A. in Women's and Gender Studies, Soo Jung recevied a Ph.D. at the School of Social Work at Rutgers. She has worked to assist projects related to issues of depression care and HEDIS measures of depression in the Institute for Health. Her interests include women, social policy, and non profit organization. Recent research is focusing on the relationships of leave polices and work-life balance. Her dissertation explores how parents with serous illnesses children manage work-life balance and the effects of health outcomes, emotional well-being, family stability, and job stability. She teaches at Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea. |
Spohr, Elizabeth
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Assistant Director of Residential Life, Temple University
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence with the Center for Women's Global Leadership (Rutgers University)