Tasia Alexopolous
BAH WMNS 2007, LGBT Certificate 2007, PhD GNDS 2020
"The opportunity to take a class with Dr. McKittrick after so many years (I completed my undergraduate at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s over a decade ago) was such a unique and priceless experience."
Winter 2022 update
Since completing my PhD, I have continued my work as the Social Media Coordinator/Spokesperson for the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada and am currently the Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Coordinator at Mount Allison 카지노게임사이트 in Sackville, New Brunswick.
Sarah Brenner Miller
BAH WMNS/DEVS 2003
"Activism and critical thought were alive and well among my instructors and peers, and I was mentored by the best of them."
Winter 2021 update
I just finished a Master of Social Work, and I am working with young people experiencing and at risk of homelessness and their families. I'm also parenting my two young daughters and doing disability advocacy and justice work.
Taylor Cenac
MA GNDS 2020
"My research and community work centers how radical loving and caring spaces are fundamental to dreaming toward queer futures."
Fall 2020 update
I recently completed a diploma in social service work at St. Lawrence College. I believe youth are central to doing this work because young people dream queer and radical dreams, and this is the vision of community that I seek to cultivate.
Mel Côté
BAH GNDS 2016
"My classes in Gender Studies helped to contextualize my unease with some of the practices I was observing in my career in the non-profit sector and gave me the language to critically engage with the injustices I was witnessing and experiencing in my life."
Fall 2020 update
I have spent time working in non-profit management, funding and grant oversight, and university administration. I am delighted to be returning to Gender Studies again as the Undergraduate Assistant.
Conely de Leon
BAH WMNS & ENGL 2006
"I had the incredible honour of learning from Dr. Dina Georgis and Dr. Katherine McKittrick whose teaching and mentorship had a profound impact on my academic trajectory.'
Winter 2021 update
Currently, I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan 카지노게임사이트, where I get to learn from a growing interdisciplinary community of scholars, scholar-activists, and students. Most recently, I co-founded the Pahinga (Rest) Collective with Filipinx/a/o graduate students, community organizers, and service providers representing migrant, queer, and feminist grassroots organizations in Tkaronto.
Avery Everhart
MA GNDS 2016
"Gender Studies at Queen's was a safe haven and a reprieve, not only for those students seeking an environment where they could name the injustices they witnessed without being told to pipe down, but also for myself."
Maha Faruqi
MA GNDS 2021, BAH GNDS, SXGD Certificate
"My educators guided me to build a critical analysis at the roots, to creatively work through complex topics, and to explore my personal/social engagements with the world."
Angie Fazekas
MA GNDS 2014
"My time at GNDS completing my MA from 2012-2014 was instrumental in shaping my work and research. My time in the program not only transformed the way I understand and exist in the world but also set me off on a research path I'm pursuing today."
Winter 2021 update
I am currently working as an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto. I teach cultural studies and pop culture, two topics that I first explored during my time at GNDS.
Daisy Fraser-Boychuk
BAH GNDS 2020
"I truly found a sense of direction with Queen's GNDS as my propellor. I learned what it meant to be a compassionate, dedicated, and committed member of a community."
Fall 2021 update
I am currently completing my MA at U of T's Women and Gender Studies Institute
Amal Haroon
MA GNDS 2020
"My time at Gender Studies enabled me to see the intersections between gender and domestic violence in my own community and in the larger Canadian community."
Fall 2021 update
I am working as Crisis Counsellor for Government Assisted Refugees with a nonprofit organization and as a Site Supervisor for one of the largest shelters in the City of Toronto, working to address homelessness, addiction, and mental health in the community.
Rhea Hoskin
MA GNDS 2014
"I had the privilege of being mentored by the incredible faculty of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Department of Gender Studies during my formative graduate years. [They] struck the perfect balance of guidance and freedom that allowed me to forge my own path, and gave me the confidence to do so. "
Winter 2021 update
I am currently an Ontario Women카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Health Scholar and an AMTD Global Talent postdoctoral fellow at the 카지노게임사이트 of Waterloo, where I am cross-appointed to the departments of Sociology & Legal Studies and Sexuality, and Marriage & Family Studies.
Zoya Islam
MA GNDS 2012, BAH GNDS, SXGD Certificate
"A highlight from my time at GNDS was working as a Teaching Assistant for the department. I loved facilitating tutorials and seeing 'lightbulbs go off' when students made connections between the course materials and their lived experiences."
Summer 2022 update
I am the Manager of Communications at Samuel Family Foundation
Danny McLaren
BAH GNDS 2021
"I have always been encouraged by my professors to pursue my more unconventional and creative ideas in the classroom, and these have been received with an openness and warmth I have rarely found outside this department."
Fall 2021 update
I am a gender studies MA student at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s 카지노게임사이트
Emily Macgillivray
MA GNDS 2011, BAH GNDS
"During my time in the Gender Studies Department at Queen's, I worked closely with faculty who are internationally recognized in their fields and who are also generous and supportive mentors. This mentorship was integral to my development as a scholar."
Summer 2022 update
I am an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and Women and Gender Studies at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin.
Aarzoo Singh
MA GNDS 2014
"The work I completed during my Masters in Gender Studies gave me the theoretical backbone necessary to conduct my doctoral work and continues to influence my own pedagogical and scholarly practices."
Fall 2021 update
I am currently working as an Assistant Professor, teaching stream, at the 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto Scarborough at the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies.
Hannah Smith
MA GNDS 2021
"My time in my MA, working with this fantastic department, allowed me to not only work on a degree but explore my interests and strengthen my sense of self. The academic and personal learning I gained from this program are lessons I hold close to my heart."
Summer 2022 update
I am currently a law student interested in criminal, family, and Indigenous law.
Peter Stuart
BAH WMNS/ENGL 1995; BEd 1996
"Women카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Studies changed me forever. It helped me see power: who had it, who benefited from it, who suffered at its hand, and how those who had it, ensured they kept it."
Winter 2021 update
I work as the Principal of an adult education centre located in a federal women카지노 게임 컬렉션™s correctional facility. It카지노 게임 컬렉션™s certainly not where most Women카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Studies students see themselves working (I certainly didn카지노 게임 컬렉션™t). But in this job, I use what I learned in Women카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Studies every single day.
Xin Sun
BA HIST 2016; BAH GNDS 2019; SXGD Certificate 2019
"My GNDS degree helped me in so many ways. I discovered my identities during my time at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s and in GNDS - my identities as a racialized, disabled woman, and what it means to live with those marginalized identities."
Winter 2021 update
I continue to be involved at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s through the Ban Righ Foundation Board of Directors, where I have acted as Board Co-Chair with Nancy Butler.
Natalie Zhang
MA GNDS 2020
"[Professor Margaret Little] is such an amazing scholar in poverty studies in Canada and an advocate of gender equality and social justice. Her support, compassion, and encouragement have greatly impacted me."
Winter 2021 update
I am a first-year Queen's Law student. I hope to study well and use my profession to help and empower others in the near future.
Veronica Sewilski
BAH GNDS 2022, MA GNDS 2025
The students, staff, and faculty I have met over the years in the GNDS department are some of the most inspiring and hard-working people I have ever met, and I am forever grateful for their mentorship, expertise, and for fighting on my side when I needed it. I currently work in Residence Life at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s, where I apply the knowledge and skills from my degrees on a daily basis.
I joined the GNDS MA program while continuing to work so that my professional experience could inform my research and my research could enrich my work. I am so appreciative of how accommodating the GNDS department was while I balanced both commitments. Through my undergraduate and graduate coursework, I have been able to practice critical analysis and radical thinking while also refining my writing abilities.
Nael Bhanji
BAH Women카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Studies, Certificate in Sexuality Studies
I am an Associate Professor at Trent 카지노게임사이트 in the Department of Gender & Social Justice. While my areas of specialization are critical race and trans studies, a lot of my work draws upon the fields of psychoanalysis and affect theory. I was extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to learn from an incredible array of brilliant minds카지노 게임 컬렉션” among them Dr. Dina Georgis, Dr. Margaret Little, Dr. Katherine McKittrick, and Dr. Jane Tolmie. Their encouragement, dedication to teaching, and passion for theory have shaped the best parts of who I am today.
Winter 2025 update
I am currently taking advantage of a quiet sabbatical to finish writing the last chapter of my first book.