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Thanks to AAUW Fellow and Grant Recipient Alumnae
In June 2008, I left my teaching position in Brazil to pursue a master’s degree in communications at American University. I approached my return to school with apprehension since six… Read more »
Meet Jill Deiss: Book Conservator and Bookbinder
A renowned bookbinder and conservator, Jill Deiss has cleaned and pressed the pages of historical works like Edgar Allen Poe’s family Bible, John Wilkes Booth’s diary, and Shakespeare’s First Folio…. Read more »
Meet Zamira Djabarova
Program Specialist at the United Nations Development Fund for Women Expanding economic rights and opportunities for women in the labor market in Tajikistan, the National Association of Business Women in… Read more »
Meet Freda Bredy
IBM Senior Consultant and Army Medical Corps Reservist Freda Bredy, a 2005–06 Selected Professions Fellow, remembers that in high school her mother served a dual role as guidance counselor and… Read more »
Meet Kate Schapira: Poet, Teacher, Program Developer
Camp Beacon Women’s Correctional Facility is not surrounded by a fence, and there is no barbed wire. Rather, the women serving in this minimum security prison wear ankle bracelets, which… Read more »
Meet Amy Cerato: Geotechnical Engineer
The summer before her junior year of high school, Amy Cerato spent six weeks revegetating trails and building bridges in the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park as part of a… Read more »
Meet Intan Paramaditha: Cinema Studies Doctoral Candidate
Intan Paramaditha, a 2007–08 International Fellow from Indonesia, began conducting background research for her dissertation in cinema studies at New York University in 2007. As a published author and former… Read more »
Meet Sara Rashad: Filmmaker and Activist
Facts on Female Genital Cutting FGC is still practiced in more than 28 countries. Almost 50 percent of the women who have experienced FGC are living in Egypt or Ethiopia…. Read more »
Meet Graciela Tiscareño-Sato: Entrepreneur, Advocate, Aviator
Graciela’s 2010 Goals Publish first bilingual children’s book about mothers in the military Publish first business book featuring innovative Latinos in the American “green” economy Visit three graduate business schools… Read more »
Following the Fellows Moves to Wednesday
Thank you to everyone who has been reading and commenting on the Following the Fellows series, which began in summer 2008. Since the beginning, I have shared with you the… Read more »