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Rose Adamczyk
Spring, 2005
Sociology Major/GWS Minor
Rose is enrolled in the PsyD program in Clinical Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is a psychology extern at Hartgrove Hospital, administering intellectual and personality tests to the patients in order to make the best recommendations for treatment.
Veronica Arreola
May, 2003
MA in Public Administration/GWS Concentration
Veronica is the director of the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program at UIC. She was also recently appointed cochair of the Chicago Abortion Fund.
Clare Astone
May, 1990
Master's in Social Work/GWS Concentration
In addition to her private practice, Claire has worked for the past several years at Genesis House, she works with adolescent wards of the state on parenting issues and more recently piloted an outreach program for women in prostitution.
Regina Buccola
May, 2000
PhD in English/GWS Concentration
Regina is an associate professor of English and a core faculty member in the Women's and Gender Studies Program
at Roosevelt University. She published Fairies, Fractious Women and the Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and Culture, Selinsgrove, PA : Susquehanna UP, 2006. Regina writes and performs in Chicago theater.
Peggy Byrne
May, 1989
MA in Criminal Justice/GWS Concentration
Peggy Byrne is a criminal defense lawyer and represents battered women charged with crimes because they had fought back against abusive partners. She also represents women who are seeking redress in court for years of sexual abuse as children. She was one of the founders of the Illinois Clemency Project for Battered Women.
Kim Davidson
Spring, 2007
Master's in Social Work /GWS Concentration
Kim is the Entry Point Outreach Coordinator for Connections for the Homeless in Evanston, IL. She coordinates the outreach program and supervises case managers in her department.
Ann Marie Hintz
May, 2003
Master's in Social Work/GWS Concentration
Ann is currently living in Santa Maria Tlhauitoltepec, Mexico where she teaches English, coaches sports, is a counsellor, an aid to the local free clinic for talks on HIV/AIDS, addictions, gender, sexuality, family planning, and more for teenagers. She recently started a youth center for the community that is in the process of becoming an organization.
Melissa Gesbeck Howell
Spring, 2007
GWS and Sociology Majors
Melissa graduated cum laude and is pursuing a PhD in Sociology at Loyola University. Her research interests include public health outcomes in the wake of welfare reform, with particular focus on the normative caregiver role.
Glynis Kinnan
PhD in English/GWS Concentration
Glynis Kinnan has taught GWS 390 "Feminist Theory" and GWS 101 "Gender in Everyday Life." An alum of the UIC English Department, Glynis has taught courses on writing and film at UIC and Roosevelt University. She is as a high school English teacher in Oak Park.
Michelle Jarman
Fall, 2006
PhD in English/GWS Concentration
Michelle accepted a position as assistant professor of Disability Studies at the University of Wyoming. Additionally, Michelle received a Mellon Fellowship through the Future of Minority Studies for a two-week summer institute at Cornell University.
Glenda Jones
Spring, 2007
PhD in English/GWS Concentration
Winner of Spring, 2006 GWS Graduate Award
Glenda has accepted a position as assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She will be teaching courses in critical reading, writing, and thinking as well as courses in women's studies.
Eunjung Kim
Spring, 2007
PhD in Disability Studies/GWS Concentration
Eunjung is the Future of Minority Studies Postdoctoral Mentoring Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for the 2007-2008 school year. She also had an article, “Cultural Rehabilitation: Hansen's Disease, Gender and Disability in Korea,” published in Wagadu: a Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies.
Rebecca Mach
Summer 2001
BA in History/GWS Minor
Winner of 2001 GWS Undergraduate Award
Rebecca is currently working at the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin in Madison. As a Youth Prevention Specialist, she gives presentations to youth at risk at detention centers, group homes, community organizations, and schools. She also runs the volunteer youth outreach program where she coordinates kids to go out in the community and talk to other peers about substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Joanna Michelson
Summer, 2007
GWS Major
Joanna is the Events Manager at Flourish Studios in Chicago. She produced the 2007 Vagina Monologues at UIC, which spotlighted women in conflict zones. The production had over 1,200 attendees and raised $7,000.00, which was distributed to the Chicago Abused Women Coalition, INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence, Rape Victim Advocates, UIC's Campus Advocacy Network, and the Young Women's Empowerment Project.
Catherine Mintler
May, 2004
PhD in English/GWS Concentration
Winner of Spring, 2005 GWS Graduate Award
Catherine received an award from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and
Society's Smith Reynolds Founder's Fellowship to fund archival research
for a dissertation chapter in progress that is currently titled: “Consuming
Sex and Gender in Hemingway's Garden of Eden and Radclyffe Hall's The
Well of Loneliness.” Also, her review of Shira Tarrant's book, When Sex Became Gender , was published in The International Journal of Women's Studies in November, 2008.
Colleen Norton
Spring, 2007
Master's in Social Work /GWS Concentration
Colleen is a case worker at Between Friends in Chicago, providing comprehensive services for women and children affected by domestic violence and prevention and education programs for teens and adults in the community.
Renda, Patricia
May, 2005
PhD in English/GWS Concentration
Patti is an assistant professor of English at Wilbur Wright Community College in Chicago.
Amy Schneidhorst
Spring, 2007
PhD in History/GWS Concentration
Amy accepted a position as assistant professor in United States History at Eastern Illinois University for AY 2007-2008.
Masha Shekarloo
May, 1999
BA in Political Science/GWS minor
Mahsa Shekarloo is a journalist, translator, and co-founder of the website, Badjens, which addresses contemporary women's and gender issues in Iran. She has co-translated two of Shirin Ebadi's books, Women's Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran and The Story of One Woman. She is also a founding member of the Women's Cultural Center, an NGO based in Iran, which aims to expand women's rights and social participation.
Lesley Skousen
Spring, 2005
History Major/GWS Minor
Winner of Spring, 2005 GWS Undergraduate Award
Lesley is pursuing a PhD in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In Summer, 2007 she presented her work on the history of women and gender in early modern Britain at conferences in Lyon, France and Dayton, Ohio. She is also active in the TAA Union at the University of Wisconsin, organizing for more funding for graduate students.
Alana Stegich
Spring, 2006
MA Public Administration/GWS Concentration
Winner of 2000 Undergraduate Award
As an undergrad, Alana Stegich worked as a student assistant in the Office of Women's Affairs and upon graduation became the OWA's assistant director. She is currently working in UIC's Graduate College of Business as the Assistant Director of Recruitment.
Tania Unzueta
Spring, 2004
Sociology Major/GWS Minor
Winner of Spring 2004 GWS Undergraduate Award
Tania is a freelance writer and journalist with La Raza Newspaper, Windy City Times, and Identity Magazine . She is also the producer of Homofrecuencia , which recently celebrated its five-year anniversary as the first radio show for LGBTQ Latino youth in Spanish ( 90.5 FM WRTE Radio Arte Chicago). Tania has started hosting and producing Radio Arte's “ Sin Papeles ,” which translates into “ Without papers ,” a news and talk show about immigration and the current immigrant rights movement. She is a member of the March 10th Committee, which provided planning and support for the 2006 and 2007 immigrant rights rallies in Chicago. She has also been very active with the newly formed Chicago LGBTQ Immigrant Alliance, a network of organizations focusing on the inclusion of LGBTQ immigrants in the immigrant rights and LGBTQ rights movement.
Ana Turck
Spring, 2003
BA in Psychology/GWS Minor
Winner of 2003 GWS Undergraduate Award
A native of Sarajevo, Ana escaped to the United States in 1995, after three years in war-torn Bosnia and six months in a Croatian refugee camp. Burdened by survivor guilt, she shifted her studies from art to psychology in search of a way to help other war survivors, particularly women who were victims of mass rape. Ana returned to Bosnia after her graduation to begin an oral history project, allowing Bosnian women to give voice to their experiences during and after the Bosnian war.
Valerie Werner
Spring, 1988
BA in Sociology/GWS Minor
Over the years, Valerie Ann Werner has worked for both government and non-profit agencies as an administrator, counselor, and advocate in programs serving low-income families mainly headed by women. She is now the Director of the Urban and Public Affairs Program at UIC, and is completing her PhD in Public Administration.
Jackie White
Spring, 2005
PhD in English/GWS Graduate Concentration
Winner of Spring, 2004 GWS Graduate Award
Jackie is an assistant professor in English at Lewis University in Romeoville, and her small volume of poetry, Petal Tearing & Variations, will be published in August, 2007 by Finishing Line Press.
Nousheen Yousuf
Spring, 2005
History Major/GWS Minor
Nousheen is completing her Master's degree in Religious Studies at Boston University with a concentration on Women in Islam.
Jennifer Zimmerman
Spring 2004
BA in Psychology/GWS Minor
Jennifer is enrolled in DePaul's experimental psychology PhD program. She is also taking classes toward her certificate in women's and gender studies. She completed her master's thesis on impression formation strategies. She also works with professors researching stereotypes, prejudice, humor, and sexism.
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