1996–97 Selected Professions Fellow Rachael Rollins’ inspiring path through the field of law began during her undergraduate years at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Rollins received a full scholarship to play college lacrosse only to find out after her freshman year that the lacrosse, volleyball, and tennis teams would be cut due to budgetary constraints. [...]
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Meet Rachael Rollins: Lawyer and Title IX Champion
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged AAUW, Boston Celtics, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, lacross, Massachusettes Department of Transportation, National Basketball Players Association, NFL Players Association, Northeastern University, Rachael Rollins, Title IX, University of Massachusetts Amherst, women leaders on November 30, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Celebrating 130 Years with Fellowships and Grants
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, Women's History, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, Association of Collegiate Alumnae, education, European Fellowship, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Ida Street, International Fellowshio, Louisa Holman Richardson, National AAUW Month, Virginia Alvarez-Hussey on November 28, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
This November, we’re celebrating our 130th Anniversary and the first annual National AAUW Month. This milestone has given me the opportunity to explore my personal connection to AAUW. Even though I’m a member of the millennial generation, I learned the value of education and women’s empowerment from my grandmother, a longtime AAUW member who attended [...]
Meet Maria Lane: Historical Geographer
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, education, Fellowships and Grants, Florida, Following the Fellows, Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet, National Science Foundation, Organization of American States, University of New Mexico, University of Virginia on November 16, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
2007–08 American Fellow K. Maria D. Lane’s strong affinity for coastal southwest Florida, the region in which she grew up, led to her interest in maps and places. Although she was exposed to multiple cultural and environmental landscapes there, Lane’s career goal was not to become the academic geographer she is today. Her interest in [...]
Meet Eden Wurmfeld: Acclaimed Film Producer
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Bringing Up Mom, Career Development Grant, Eden Wurmfeld, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Habeas on the Gate, Kissing Jessica Stein, Miss Representation, No Impact Man, Oprah Winfre Network, OWN, Sunset Story, The Hammer, Variety on November 9, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
The documentary Miss Representation, recently aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network, provides startling facts about women’s portrayal and representation in media. The world of media, television, and movies often construct images of women as sexualized objects or unintelligent sidekicks when compared with male counterparts, leaving our culture with a negative perception of female empowerment. Eden [...]
Meet Rose Stremlau: Ethnohistorian
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, ethnohistory, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Native American Heritage Month, Sustaining the Cherokee Family, University of Illinois, University of North Carolina on November 2, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
November is Native American Heritage Month, thus we are honoring a fellow who studies Native American history. Rose Stremlau, a 2009–10 American Fellow, earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her pride in that university, however, was compromised by the realization that the now-retired Chief Illiniwek mascot’s image reflects racist, historically inaccurate [...]
Meet Claudia Brazzale: Dancer and Interdisciplinary Academic
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Claudia Brazzale, Dancing through Otherness: The Circulation of West African Dance in Italy, education, Falling into the Spectacle: Berlusconi's Performance of Modernity and Gender, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, International Fellowship, London Contemporary Dance School, Merce Cunningham Studio, Princeton University, Rutgers University on October 26, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
2010–11 International Fellow Claudia Brazzale parlayed her dream of being a dancer into a transformative and interdisciplinary career. She is an accomplished dancer, having studied at the London Contemporary Dance School and Merce Cunningham Studio, with an extensive list of productions and choreographies. Brazzale has a multifaceted interest in anthropology and various fields of humanities [...]
SisterMentors: Building the Dream for 15 Years
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Conference Center, Community Action Grant, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, mentor, Shireen Lewis, SisterMentors, Washington D.C. on October 19, 2011, | 3 Comments »
AAUW holds a special place in my heart. I received an American Fellowship during the last year of my pursuit of my doctorate, and I was awarded a Community Action Grant to help SisterMentors, the nonprofit program that I founded. I started SisterMentors in 1997 because I wanted to be in the company of women [...]
Meet Jane Honikman: Nonprofit Visionary and Mentor
Posted in A Women's Nation, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, CARE, community, Community Action Grant, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Goleta Valley, International Childbirth Education Association, postnatal trauma, postpartum depression, Postpartum Education for Parents, Postpartum Support International on October 12, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Community is reinforced daily as a driving force for change. The significance of community and a network of women is the foundation of AAUW’s mission to advance equity for women and girls. Jane Honikman —a nonprofit founder, ambassador, and daughter of an AAUW member — says community was the launching point for her career because [...]
AAUW Fellows in Action: It’s All Global
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Anacapa, California, China, Clinton Global Initia, Ecuador, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, Innovation Awards Gallery, New York Times, Sarayaku, Teach for All on September 28, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
This week has been full of news about the Clinton Global Initiative, initiated in 2005 by former President Bill Clinton “to inspire, connect, and empower a community of global leaders to forge solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.” Specifically, the New York Times ran an article about the Teach for All program, modeled after Teach [...]
Parting Words from Last Year’s Fellows and Grantees
Posted in A Women's Nation, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, Career Development Grant, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, International Fellowship on September 21, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
There are many rewarding aspects to working in Fellowships and Grants at AAUW, but one in particular is reading about all the amazing accomplishments of our outgoing fellowship and grant recipients in their final reports. Some have graduated and are venturing into the working world; others are finding new inspiration as they make the final [...]
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