students & alumni  

students

Congratulations go to the following students for their contributions to Women's Studies.  They were recognized at the Women's Studies Minors Tea in March.

Amy Gilliand - Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Women's Studies

Natalia Neira - Providing Feminist Leadership

Erin Wackerla - Providing Feminist Leadership

Anna Ruth - Volunteer Efforts in Service to Women's Studies

Graduate student Morgan O'Donnell recently presented "Delving into Dune: Exploring Elements of Ecofeminist Rhetoric in Frank Herbert's Novel" at the 2008 Student Creative Arts and Research Symposium at Texas Woman's University.

alumni

Did you graduate from UNT with a Women's Studies minor or with a General Studies degree with Women's Studies as one of your areas?  Are you a graduate from our interdisciplinary master's program?  If so, we'd love to hear from you!  Email us at wmst@unt.edu with your stories.  Tell us where you are and what you are doing and we'd especially love to hear how you are using what you learned in Women's Studies.

With your permission, we'll post some stories right here and use some for our newsletters. If you don't want your stories posted, that's fine too, but we'd still like to hear from you.

Molly Brown --  Molly Brown was recently accepted to Columbia University's Direct Entry Nurse Practioner program where she will earn her RN and then complete a Master's in Nursing. She intends to specialize in Women's Health.

Molly  graduated from UNT in 2006 with a BA in Social Science and a minor in Women's Studies.  Molly was a member of the FMLA and was part of the England/Scotland English/Women's Studies study abroad program Summer 2004 with Dr.Spencer.  Prior to her acceptance at Columbia University she has been working at Planned Parenthood for the last year as a health care assistant

Samantha Sewell -- Samantha Sewell -- better known as Sam -- graduated with a bachelor's degree in General Studies where one of her primary areas was Women's Studies. While she was at UNT, Sam headed the Southern Global Women's and Human Rights conference and was active in the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance. 

Currently Sam works for NARAL Pro-choice America as Executive Coordinator for the President.  Previously she served as Primary Organizer for the Midwest Region for the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF). Prior to the FMF, she was working at the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition as the Youth Program Director.