Congratulations to GWST Students!

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:13:02 -0500

On Saturday, November 14th, GWST students presented a panel at the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. GWST majors, Abigail Grainger, Eva Jannotta and Jennifer Keeter were selected to present. The panel was moderated by Autumn Reed, a graduate assistant in the program. The Global Women’s Health Action: Putting Intersectionality Into Practice This panel described a week-long campus Global Women’s Health Action, organized by a group of undergraduate gender and women’s studies students. With a grant from a national organization, these students created a campus-wide collaborative event. This session will describe the organizing process and the event itself, with particular attention paid to the feminist organizing principles used to build partnerships across campus and in the creation of an event that connected local to global, and that demonstrated the value of an intersectional approach to women’s health by addressing differentiations based on race, class, sexual orientation, physical ability, and nation.