Get Involved

As feminists, as intellectuals, as people, as global and local citizens, it is our responsibility to get involved in the issues we study and discuss so passionately.

You’ll find on my homepage a list of organizations, non-profits, and NGOs I’ve either worked for, contributed to, or continue to support to this day.  After making the decision to step down from a “grown up” job and return to graduate school, I realized it wouldn’t be viable to continue supporting half a dozen awe-inspiring organizations and needed to whittle down the list to the causes I held most close and critically needed to the time.

As a feminist with a focus on global development issues, such as child and maternal mortality, gender-based violence including genital mutilation and socially-sanctioned rape, literacy, and access to clean water, nutritious food, and shelter, Women for Women International stood above the rest.  Please visit their site and consider reaching out a hand to a fellow woman living in Afghanistan, Sudan, Kosovo, Iraq, or Congo (they work in several other countries as well) surviving through civil war and in some cases, state-sanctioned terrorism and warfare.

While we’re struggling graduate students ourselves, please consider for a moment how truly privileged we are and consider contributing what you can to a woman, a soul, a community, whose struggles we can only attempt to articulate.

“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.  Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.  All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”

-George Bernard Shaw