Staff
The WFF office includes two Gender Equity and Policy Post-Graduate Associates and a half-time Administrative Assistant, all of whom work in conjunction with the WFF Council, Steering Committee and Co-Chairs. The GEPPAs design and implement innovative programs and projects and oversee the research components of WFF initiative. The Administrative Assistant offers logistical support for both program and research activities.
- Arun Storrs, Gender Equity and Policy Postgraduate Associate
- Jessica Svendsen, Gender Equity and Policy Postgraduate Associate
- Edith Rotkopf, Administrative Assistant
Arun Storrs
Gender Equity and Policy Postgraduate Associate
(203) 432 5300
(203) 432 8828 fax
arun.storrs@yale.edu
Arun Storrs graduated from Yale University in May 2008 with a B.A. in Theater Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration with honors. As an undergraduate at Yale, she served on the founding boards of Yspaniola and YNepal, groups that travel to communities in The Dominican Republic and Nepal (respectively) for service work and cultural education. She also co-founded an eco-fashion line, called ‘COMMONS,’ She acted in, directed, and choreographed for several gender-focused performances, including The Vagina Monologues, Electra Speaks (a revival of the Women’s Experimental Theater’s original work), and Un-Gender (a dance theater piece performed at the Baryshnikov Art Center). In 2007, she received the Yale College Public Service Research Grant to travel to Nepal and work with Tibetan refugee children to implement a dance theater curriculum based on Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed, teach arts and crafts, and interview refugees for her Theater Studies’ original dance theater senior project: Tibet Imagined.
Jessica Svendsen
Gender Equity and Policy Postgraduate Associate
(203) 436 3947
(203) 432 8828 fax
jessica.svendsen@yale.edu
Jessica Svendsen graduated from Yale in 2009 with a B.A. in English Language and Literature, with distinction. Since 2006, Jessica worked with the Women Faculty Forum as a research assistant and student liaison. As an undergraduate, Jessica was the editor-in-chief and designer of the feminist publication Manifesta, the Public Relations Coordinator of the Yale Women’s Center, and a recipient of the Amy Rossborough Fellowship to install a feminist poster campaign on Yale’s campus, known as Graphic Feminism.
For four years, Jessica worked as a letterpress printer and Press Manager of the Jonathan Edwards Press and in 2007, she received a summer fellowship to complete a letterpress apprenticeship in Paris. In 2009, she received the Patrick McCaughey Fellowship to intern in the graphic design department of the Yale Center for British Art. At Yale, Jessica designed for several organizations, including: the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, the Yale WGSS and LGBTS departments, and the Yale Sustainable Food Project.
As a recipient of the Leitner Project Award, Jessica studied Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press in London and continued her studies as a research assistant for the Yale Modernism Lab. While at Yale, Jessica also worked for the Yale University Press, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Association of Yale Alumni.
Her senior thesis on Kara Walker was awarded the Steere Prize in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the William Pickens Prize in African American Studies. She was also awarded the Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prize for her collections on Kara Walker and graphic design.
Edith Rotkopf
Administrative Assistant
(203) 432 8847
(203) 432 8828 fax
edith.rotkopf@yale.edu
Edith Rotkopf divides her time between the Women Faculty Forum and the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders. She joined Yale after closing a public relations business that she founded and ran for thirteen years.
