Women and Gender Studies

Shawnee Sloop is currently working as an Editorial and Research Intern for the tech company AmericanTowns Media in Westport, CT. When Shawnee is not working, she can be found hiking local spots or visiting friends in Boston or Philadelphia. She will be traveling to Italy in May to visit family and will travel to Florence, Venice, and Spain.

​Sage Carson is Project Manager of Know Your IX, a project of Advocates for Youth. Know Your IX is a national survivor- and youth-led organization empowering young people to end gender violence in their schools.

Sanika Salim is Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff in Senator (DE) Tom Carper’s office as well as Intern Coordinator for the Washington D.C. office, where she reviews incoming applications, trains Legislative interns, and participates in hiring new interns for spring, summer, and fall internship programs, a role Sanika says “is very close to my heart, because I began my journey on Capitol Hill as an intern.”  Her future plans are to earn a Master’s in Public Administration degree and ultimately to work for the State Department, the United Nations or international NGOs concerning women’s rights and international development. 

Gabrielle Lanzetta received the Mariam K. Chamberlain Fellowship in Women and Public Policy.  Through this fellowship, she worked for the Feminist Majority Foundation in Arlington, VA, as Assistant to FMA co-founder Eleanor Smeal, publisher of Ms. magazine, which featured Gabby in an article published in the Spring 2017 issue.

​Olivia Blythe has been working at The Athena Centre for Women in Chios, Greece, the first all-female refugee facility established to respond to the refugee crisis in Greece. “I am one of the Centre’s coordinators as the main point of contact for the Centre’s clients; women and children refugees from Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, Cameroon, Congo and Afghanistan. I am also in charge of case management for the women and giving them referrals to other organizations on the island. Most of the refugees have experienced domestic violence or intimate partner violence, so getting them in contact with organizations that can provide counseling or organizations that can assist with relocating the women to a safe space has been my biggest focus.”

​Pallavi Mathur has begun her first year at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she hopes to combine her electrical engineering degree with legal studies and eventually pursue a career in patent law. In this field, she especially hopes to help and advocate for women innovators and entrepreneurs, who often face significant challenges in the male-dominated tech industry.