MA Alumni Listing
MA Alumni Listing
Hetfield, Lisa
- Committee: Mary Hartman, Mary Hawkesworth, Barbara Balliet
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Associate Director and Director of Development, Institute for Women's Leadership, Rutgers University
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Feminist Interventions: Creating New Institutional Spaces for Women at Rutgers
Lisa Hetfield is currently the Associate Director and Director of Development for the Institute for Women's Leadership consortium at Rutgers. In that role, she raises funds to support leadership programs, research initiatives, and public service activities of the consortium as well as oversees the day-to-day operations of the organization. She is co-founder of several leadership programs at Rutgers, including the IWL High School Leadership Certificate Program and the Senior Leadership Program for Professional Women. In additon to an M.A. from Rutgers, she also holds a B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Hall, Meredith
- Committee: Ed Cohen, Harriet Davidson, Liz Grosz
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: An Aperture in Knowing: The Dangerous Future of Feminist Theory in an Academic Economy of Dissent
Gupta, Kristina
- Committee: Yana Rodgers, Nancy Hewitt, Sue Cobble
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexaulity Studies, Wake Forest University
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Making Women Visible with the National Women's History Museum (Washington, D.C.)
Upon completing an M.A. at Rutgers, Kristina Gupta pursued a Ph.D. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She graduated in 2013. Kristina also holds a B.A. from Georgetown Unviersity in History and Women's Studies.
Azad, Soheli
- Committee: Robyn Rodriguez, Yana Rodgers, Ethel Brooks
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka.
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Migration, Gender Relations, and Organizational Intervention: Experiences with Manavi, a Non Governmental Organization, New Jersey
After completing her M.A. at Rutgers on a Fulbright Scholarship, Soheli Azad received a Ph.D. from the University of Dhaka with a focus on globalization, internal migration and gender relations, and women working in readymade garment industries. She previously held positions in Human Resources, including at ActionAid Bangladesh.
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 |
Serrato, Cindy
- Committee: Susan J. Carroll, Mary K. Trigg, and Mary S. Hartman
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Lunch, Business Cards, and Skills Provided: Practicum Report to the Center for American Women and Politics with the Center for American Women in Politics (Rutgers University)
Cindy Serrato was born in Mexico and raised in the United States southwest. She served two AmeriCorps terms under the National Civilian Community Corps (NCC) in Washington, D.C. Thereafter, she returned to Las Vegas where she earned a Bachelors degree in Anthropology from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Before saying goodbye to UNLV, she spent a semester abroad in Chengdu, China. She also had the privilege of participating in the National Education for Womens (NEW) Leadership, Nevada that furthered her feminist involvement on campus and in the community. Cindy completed her practicum at the Center for American Women and Politics as the NEW Leadership, NJ Program Assistant in 2007. Cindy's interests include women's leadership, leadership development, and munticultural education.
Reilly, Colleen
- Committee: Mary Trigg, Barbara Balliet, Yana Rodgers
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Analyst, Humana Foundation, Louiseville, KY
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: BUST-ing Out: A Theoretical Look at the Work of a Third Wave Feminist Magazine with BUST Magazine (New York CitY0
Colleen Reilly holds a B.A. in Gender Studies from Indiana University.
Thi Mai Nguyen, Hoa
- Committee: Mary Hawkesworth, Yana Rodgers, Robyn Rodriguez
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Feminist Theories and WEDO Practices with Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), NYC
Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen received a Vietnamese Student Fulbright Scholarship for her study at Rutgers.
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