Meet the participants of Middlebury’s Feminist Retreat!
Middlebury is very excited welcome back WS/WAGS/GSFS alumni for our first feminist retreat.
The retreat will take place November 4-6, 2016. Please join us for the following events:
Friday, November 4
Dinner reception
6-8 p.m., Chellis House
Saturday, November 5
10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Abernethy Room, Axinn Center
10:30 – 11 a.m.
Opening remarks by GSFS faculty and staff
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Feminist Law & Feminist Community Building
Lauren Curatolo ’06, Queens Legal Aid Society
Molli Freeman-Lynde ’08, Chin & Curtis, LLP
Ashley Guzman ’13, civil legal advocate, Bronx Defenders
Jackie Park ’15, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Katie Perekslis ’06, senior director of project management, Legal Solutions Company
Aifuwa Ehigiator ’08, founder, Our Street
Sophie Esser Calvi ’03.5, associate director of food and farm programs, Middlebury College
12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Feminist Education and Academe
Jullie Rains Snyder ’97, Grade 8 Math/Science Teacher at Miles River Middle School
Alexandra Strott ’15, high school educator
Ryan Tauriainen ’08, Director of Early Childhood Strategy, Friendship Public Charter Schools
Christine Bachman-Sanders ’09, Ph.D. student, American Studies, University of Minnesota
Kolbe Franklin ’08, doctoral candidate/adjunct instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Albany
Vincent Jones ’12, Ph.D. student, Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University
2:30 – 2:45 p.m. Coffee break
2:45 – 4:00 p.m. Feminist Science and Art
Lisa Darak-Druck ’92, senior IT business analyst, IDEXX Laboratories
Joana Georgakas ’14, Associate in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; clinical research assistant, McLean Hospital
Katie Linder ’15, RA, Middlebury College
Amanda Baker ’94, actor and singer
Melian Radu ’13, poet, MFA, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Meet today’s GSFS majors and minors
6 p.m. Dinner at Brainerd Commons, 132 Blinn Lane