Sociology Major, Education Correlate

(they/them)

After graduating from Vassar, I stayed in Poughkeepsie for a year as an Administrative Fellow with the Office of Human Resources and  Information Technology. There, I helped found the Vassar Innovation and Entrepreneurship program by creating a curriculum that would help students ideate, conduct market research, fundraise, and write proposals as well as recruiting Vassar alumni to serve as mentors in the future. 

Missing my hometown of NYC, I moved back and began working for the Center for the Study of Women and Society and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. I’ve learned a lot in this role about navigating bureaucracy and supporting graduate students, but most important has been the value of tuition waivers available to staff at CUNY (and many other higher education institutions). 

Outside of work, I have learned to live with Long Covid, a chronic illness I developed in 2024 that has drastically changed how I interact with the world. With the support of a great medical team, I hope to soon take advantage of the earlier mentioned tuition waiver and enter the field of Queer Studies and get to do more of the qualitative, interview based research I came to love while on the FLI Research Team. For now, I’m enjoying being in NYC, living with a fellow FLI, Vassar alum, joyfully reading 35+ books a year, and attempting to learn Irish (Gaeilge). 

Fun fact: I’m now a licensed-wedding officiant and got to officiate my sister’s wedding!