Empowering Pathways: What is Possible with a WGS Major?
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Marketing Assistant for National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Lobbyist for the ACLU
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Public Relations Associate for Girls Ink online magazine
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Development Associate for non-profit organizations
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Employee for International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children
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Screenwriter
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Employee for American Bar Association, working on CEDAW issues (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)
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Lawyer
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Legislative Assistant on Capitol Hill
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Analyst for Democratic polling and consulting firm
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Fundraiser for domestic violence shelter
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Communications Director for Greenpeace
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Social worker
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Director of Communications at United Way
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Staff at a battered women's shelter
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Affirmative Action Officer
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Family counselor
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Women's health coordinator
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Clinical therapist
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Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities over the Lifespan
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Identities and Youth
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Identities in Families
Handbook of Psychological and Sexual Orientation
Spring 2019 Courses
UVa Ranked 7th Most Welcoming School to LGBTQ Students in the Nation
The Campus Pride Index ranked UVA in the top ten for LGBTQ-friendly campuses.
2019's Best & Worst States for Women's Equality
Denise Walsh, Associate Professor of Politics and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at UVA, is quoted as an expert in an article on gender equality in the United States.
Kate Bornstein: A Talk on LGBTQ Rights History & Gender Identity
Activist, author, advocate Kate Bornstein will deliver a free talk about LGBTQ history and rights, as well as the evolution of gender identity in our culture. This talk celebrates the 50th anniversary of Stonewall.
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Selected Publications
Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture, University of Illinois Press, 2008
“Academic Mothers and their Feminist Daughters: A Remix” African American Review 40(2006): 35-38.
“Working Moms in Their Own Words” Black Issues in Higher Education, March 28, 2002.
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In the News

Eric Klinenberg—Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences at New York University and contributor to magazines including The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books—discusses his book 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Change