WGS alums follow a wide variety of career paths. Here's a small sampling of what some of our students have done after graduation.
Activism, Nonprofit, and Community Service
- Rabbi, Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life, New York University (Ph.D. in Performance Studies from NYU)
- Union organizer, SEIU, New York
- Operations & communications director, Skate Like a Girl - Portland chapter
- Therapeutic Behavioral Services Clinician, Seneca Family of Agencies
Arts/Media
- Author of Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers
- Documentary film producer (M.Phil from Cambridge University on a Gates Fellowship)
- Independent filmmaker
- Assistant Editor, Duke University Press
- Freelance contributor, The Advocate magazine
- Journalist, author of The Sex Diaries Project and The TALL Book
- Managing editor at NACLA Report on the Americas
- M.F.A. student in studio art, University of California, Irvine
Business
- Freelance organizational consultant
- Associate Consultant at RCLCO, Inc.
- Consultant at McKinsey
- Consultant at Katzenbach
- CEO of education-technology startup, ScholarMecca.com
- Financial Analyst at Apple
Education
- Assistant Principal in New York City Public School (M.Ed from Bank Street College)
- Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Boston College (M.Phil. from Cambridge University on a Gates Fellowship and Ph.D. in Education from the University of Pennsylvania)
- Assistant Professor of History, Brown University
- Assistant Professor of History, University of Idaho
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University - Camden (previously worked at NOW and the White House Project before returning to Harvard and earning a Ph.D. in Government)
- Ph.D. student at Harvard University in African and African American Studies
- Ph.D. student at NYU in Media, Culture, and Communication
- Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University
- Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois
Law
- Executive Director of GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
- Senior Strategist, Advocacy and Policy, Ms. Foundation for Women (J.D. from Brooklyn Law School)
- Land Use attorney (M.P.P. and J.D. from Berkeley)
- Human Rights Officer in Political Section of U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana (M.A. in International Relations from Columbia and J.D. from University of Melbourne Law School)
- Civil Rights Lawyer, NAACP (J.D. from Stanford Law School)
- Clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit, (J.D. student at Yale Law School, Rhodes Scholar)
- J.D. student at Stanford Law School
- J.D. student at Harvard Law School
- J.D. student at Yale Law School
Politics
- Political Outreach Manager for Rock The Vote
- Former White House speech writer
- Assistant Director for Oversight and Investigations for a U.S. Senator
Science and Medicine
- Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of the Illinois (M.Phil and Ph.D. from Yale)
- M.D./Ph.D. student at University of California San Francisco (M.Sc. in Medical Anthropology from Oxford)
- M.D. student at University of California San Francisco (M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge)
- Resident in Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (M.D. from Brown University)