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Alumni News

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Class of 2008

  • Evelyn Castillo has been accepted into the Teacher Education program at Claremont Graduate School.

  • Ashleigh Klein is now the Race Cure Teams Coach/Development Assistant for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Class of 2007

  • Melissa Ausilio has an internship in the Jump Start program for the Mental Health Association of Los Angeles.

  • Joshua Delgado is the Legal & Youth Project Assistant at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, an organzation committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education

Class of 2006

  • Trista Akers has been accepted in a Master's program in Feminist health Issues at Suffolk University in Boston.

  • Dina Barajas is in a Masters program in American Indian Studies at Arizona University.

  • Melissa Carillo is working on her Master of Education(M.Ed.)in Higher Education Administration at Dallas Baptist University.

  • Lindsay DeVeny, who was a double major with WST and Mathematics Education, is in the Single-Subject Teaching Credential Program at CSULB.

  • Megan Harris has begun a Master's program in Environment and Community at Humboldt State University

  • Setsuko Izumi is now an English instructor at Takamatsu National College of Technology in Japan

  • Thu-Ha Tran moved to Oakland, CA, where she works for Girls. Inc., in the GITLStart Literacy Program.

  • Jessica (Post) Zaylia is attending the University of San Diego School of Law. She is externing part-time for a federal judge and has an article coming out in the Journal of Bisexuality.

Class of 2005

  • Jacqueline Belloso has been awarded a Vera Strayer Fellowship and accepted to the Teacher Education Program in the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

  • Heather Hamilton finished her serivce in the Peace Corps in Guyana, South America, and has been accepted into the Masters in Social Welfare program at UCLA. She works at Planned Parenthood.

  • Brooke Minson has been accepted to the Whittier School of Law.

  • Julie Rindone has been accepted into Portland State's Elementary Education masters program

Class of 2004

  • Charissa Jefferson has been accepted to a Ph.D. program in Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate School.

  • Marissa Krause (WST minor) has joined the Peace Corps and will be in Tanzania for the next 2-4 years.

  • Hayley Miller completed her MBA in Nonprofit Business Management from the University of Judaism and is now working at the Orange County Museum of Art.

  • Danielle Sawyer has completed her Master's in Education-Social and Multicultural Foundations. She is teaching at Poly Tech high school in Long Beach.

  • Jennifer Yanez has been accepted into the accelerated nursing program at CSULA.

Class of 2003

  • Renee Beaudoin Stokes received her Masters in Counseling Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy option at CSULB. She continues to provide volunteer counseling services at the Sexual Assault Crisis Agency (SACA) and works full time for Star View Community Services as a Mental Health Specialist counseling children and families.

  • Rachel Klimke has completed her Masters in Education at CSULB and is now teaching in Venice, California.

Class of 2002

  • Thuc Luu received her Teaching Credential in 2003 and is currently teaching 5th grade at Fryberger Elementary School in the Westminster School District. This year she begins work on her Master's in Education at Concordia University.

  • Jolene Sagan finished a second Masters, this time in the Social Work program at Portland State University. Her first Masters is in Public Policy & Administration (MPA) from CSULB. In her spare time, she is an emergency response Children's Social Worker with Los Angeles County

  • Rosemary Tayor is finishing her Masters in Teaching from Grand Canyon University. . She earned her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from California State University, Fullerton, in December of 2002, and is currently teaching 2nd grade in the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District.

Class of 2001

  • Allison Hoffman is in the PH.D. program in film at UCLA. She teaches a class for us here at CSULB in the Fall.

  • Lana (Lott) Hadded is an Administrative Analyst for the Commission on the Status of Women, City of Glendale

  • Carol Toney Tran is attending the University of California, Riverside, working on a Masters in U.S. History.

Class of 2000

  • Suzy Zepeda is in the sociology Ph.D. program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

  • Mae Hendersen rceivd her Ph.D. in Women Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle and is currently doing a post-doctoral fellowship and lecturing there in the school of social work.

Class of 1999

  • Michelle Aragon (Mica) has entered a MA program in counseling at New Mexico State University.

  • Stephanie Evans completed her Ph.D. in at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Afro-American Studies with a concentration in History.

  • Yvette Jorgensen is the Director of Public Policy for the California Family Health Council in Los Angeles.

  • Michelle Ribeiro earned her Single Subject Credential in English in December of 2005 and teaches 8th grade English at DeMille Middle School in Long Beach.

  • Monica Stel received her Masters in Social Work from CSULB. She is executive Director of Harbour Area Halfway Houses, four homes for sober living and women transitioning out of prison. She is now teaching WST 392: Feminist pedagogy for us in her free time.

Class of 1997

  • Our very first official Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies majors graduate!

Class of 1994

  • Gina Bowers (interdisciplinary major) is the Western Region Communications Director for Service Employees International Union (SEIU). In her spare time, she is the President of the Board of Directors for Lamp Community, serving homeless men and women living with mental illness through nine locations in Skid Row.