Congratulations December Graduate, Jennifer Keeter.

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:30:23 -0500

Jennifer M. Keeter, 25, will graduate in December with a major in Gender and Women’s Studies and a minor in Social Welfare. Jen came to UMBC after transferring from Carroll Community College and has been an integral part of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program ever since. A member of Women Involved in Learning and Leadership (WILL) since the fall of 2007, Jen served as co-leader for the organization in 2008-09 and the fall of 2009. In the spring of 2009, Jen helped to spearhead WILL’s largest project in its history, the Global Women’s Health Action Week, and, last month, was one of three WILL students to travel to the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference to present a panel on the feminist planning practices used for the Action Week. Jen credits her course work in Gender and Women’s Studies as the place where she became an empowered young woman and is eager to apply her skills in January when she begins her position as a public policy intern at Girls, Inc. in Washington, DC. Jen, who has spent most of her life in Mt. Airy, MD, is married, and she and her husband have a three-year old son.