# Career Paths ## expand\_more 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](/people/nicole-lyn-deblosi), Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life, New York University (Ph.D. in Performance Studies from NYU) - [Union organizer](/people/michelle-crentsil), SEIU, New York - [Operations & communications director](/people/brandy-machado), 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](/people/brandy-machado) - [Assistant Editor](/people/sandra-korn), Duke University Press - [Freelance contributor](/people/mitch-kellaway), *The Advocate* magazine - Journalist, author of *The Sex Diaries Project* and *The TALL Book* - [Managing editor](/people/colette-perold) at *[NACLA Report on the Americas](https://nacla.org/)* - [M.F.A. student](/people/martabel-wasserman) 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](/people/candice-smith), [ScholarMecca.com](http://scholarmecca.com/) - [Financial Analyst](/people/shaun-chaudhuri) at Apple ### Education - Assistant Principal in New York City Public School (M.Ed from Bank Street College) - [Assistant Professor of Higher Education](/people/andr%C3%A9s-castro-samayoa), 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](/people/emily-owens), Brown University - [Assistant Professor of History](/people/rebecca-scofield?admin_panel=1), University of Idaho - [Assistant Professor of Political Science](/people/shauna-shames), 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](/people/colette-perold) at NYU in Media, Culture, and Communication - Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University - [Associate Professor of Anthropology](/people/kathryn-clancy), University of Illinois ### Law - [Executive Director of GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)](/people/janson-wu) - 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](/people/ryan-thoreson), 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](/people/tracy-nowski) at Yale Law School ### Politics - Political Outreach Manager for Rock The Vote - [Former White House speech writer](/people/laura-dean) - [Assistant Director for Oversight and Investigations ](/people/susannah-savage)for a U.S. Senator ### Science and Medicine - [Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology](/people/kathryn-clancy) at the University of the Illinois (M.Phil and Ph.D. from Yale) - [M.D./Ph.D. student](/people/nadia-gaber) at University of California San Francisco (M.Sc. in Medical Anthropology from Oxford) - [M.D. student](/people/eva-gillis-buck) at University of California San Francisco (M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge) - [Resident in Emergency Medicine](/people/laura-dean) at Massachusetts General Hospital (M.D. from Brown University)