Student Liaisons

 

Yale College

• Blair Lanier
• Panagiotis Progios
• Adriel Saporta
• Lindsay Szauter
• Natalia Thompson

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

• Lauren Holmes
• Alice Moore
• Christine Slaughter

Yale Law School

• Katherine Reisner

Yale School of Management

• Rasanah Goss
• Jessica Modrall

Yale School of Medicine

• Britt Anderson
• Rachel Lentz

Yale School of Nursing

• Stephanie Bedolla
• Katherine Rushfirth

Yale School of Public Health

• Megan McLaughlin

 

 

Britt Anderson, Postdoc Liaison to the Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Britt Anderson is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Laboratory Medicine. Her studies focus on memory T cells in graft-vs.-host disease – an extension of her graduate work also performed at Yale University in the Section of Immunobiology (1997-2004). As a graduate student Britt served 3 years on the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, including 2 years on the Executive Board, which strives to integrate the professional and social lives of graduate and professional students at Yale. As a postdoctoral fellow she has participated in career workshops sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences’ Women Investigators Network and Hunter College's Gender Equity Project and has volunteered in science-outreach programs at elementary and high schools.

 

Stephanie Bedolla, Student Liaison to the Yale School of Nursing

Stephanie Bedolla is a second year nurse practitioner student at the Yale School of Nursing, specializing in Adult and Women's Primary Care. She holds an interdisciplinary B.A. in Science and Technology Studies and Biological Sciences from Cornell University, where she focused on issues in history and philosophy of science, gender theory, and postcolonialism. Stephanie is a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar and a member of the Student Diversity Action Committee. She also coordinates nightly health screenings for New Haven's Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen and serves as Co-Chair of the Student Government at YSN. Recently she helped develop a prenatal curriculum for economically and socially disadvantaged women enrolled in the New Haven Healthy Start program. Her current research interest is contraceptive choice among adolescents and young adult women with outpatient psychiatric disorders.

 

Rasanah Goss, Student Liaison to the School of Management

Rasanah Goss is a first year MBA candidate at the Yale School of Management. After graduation, she plans to pursue a career in corporate social responsibility. She is a Consortium for Graduate Study in Management Fellow. At SOM, Rasanah is a Director of the Women in Management Club and on the planning committee for the annual Yale SOM Philanthropy Conference. Prior to attending Yale SOM, Rasanah was a Brand Manager at Time Warner. She received her B.A. in History from Stanford University.

 

Lauren Holmes, Student Liaison to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Lauren Holmes is a graduate student in the music department, pursuing a PhD in Music History. She received a Bachelor of Music from Rice University in 2006, where she wrote a senior thesis on the role of music in the works of Virginia Woolf. While at Rice she studied issues of gender and sexuality in both music and literature. Her current research interests also include choral music and its performance, particularly the ways in which musical performance participates in the formation of both group and individual identities. In her spare time, she sings with the Yale Collegium Musicum and plays in the Yale Javanese Gamelan Ensemble.

 

Blair Lanier, Student Liaison to Yale College

Blair Lanier is a junior in Pierson College from Cincinnati, Ohio. She serves as the Business Coordinator for the Yale Women's Center, the student coordinator of an organization which pairs Yale students with elderly members of the community, and as a Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trip leader. Blair taught middle school students for three summers in the Cincinnati and New Orleans chapters of the Breakthrough Collaborative. During the year before coming to Yale, she worked in a center for adults with cerebral palsy in Spain and taught in both an elementary school and the women's section of a prison in Chile. She is majoring in Sociology.

 

Rachel Lentz, Student Liaison to the School of Medicine

Rachel Lentz is a second year medical student at the Yale School of Medicine. She received her B.A. in History of Science, History of Medicine from Yale University, where she wrote a senior thesis on the Norplant implant and how it reflected the socioeconomic disparities regarding female reproduction and birth control. She first became interested in women's health issues after taking a women's health class her sophomore year at Yale. Currently, she is one of the co-leaders of the Women’s Health Interest Group and the Ob/Gyn Interest group at the medical school. As an undergraduate, she was a member of the varsity field hockey team and is a huge supporter of female athletics.

 

Megan McLaughlin, Student Liaison to the School of Public Heatlh

Megan McLaughlin is a second year Master of Public Health student concentrating in global health. She received her B.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University, where she was a student in Jonathan Edwards College. While studying abroad in China, Megan became interested in the HIV/AIDS epidemic among injection drug users in China and the social, political, and economic determinants of disease risk. She spent two summers working with Chinese non-governmental organizations that conduct HIV prevention work among drug users. Her current focus is health systems development and strategies for addressing the gap in human resources for health in developing countries.

 

Jessica Modrall, Student Liaison to the School of Management

Jessica Modrall is a second year MBA candidate at the Yale School of Management, focusing on strategy and organization behavior. She serves as co-leader of the Women in Management Club, is a Forte Foundation Fellow and Second Year Advisor to the SOM Leadership Development Program. She came to Yale after working as an administrator and educator at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and holds a BA in Theatre from Emerson College.

 

Alice Rebecca Moore , Student Liaison to the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Alice Rebecca Moore is a fourth year graduate student in the PhD program in American Studies and is a candidate for the graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She received her MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama and her B.A. in Theatre and German Literature from Wesleyan University. She has done significant research on gender at Yale for two unpublished papers. One, "Seeing the Yale Man," is a feminist critique of the coffee-table book published by Yale in 2003: "The Yale Album: The First 300 Years." The other paper, researched heavily in Manuscripts and Archives and at the New Haven Historical Society, is titled "Remembering the Yale Fence or When the Yale Man was Visible.” It analyzes the history and politics inherent in the bas relief of the old Yale Fence at the corner of College and Chapel. Her current research centers on an exploration—through history of the US West, feminist and performance theory, and American visual culture—of the performance of white masculinity.

 

Panagiotis Progios, Student Liaison to Yale College

Panagiotis Progios is a sophomore in Trumbull College, originally from Greece. A prospective Literature and International Studies double major, he is interested in the potential interactions between the literary/theoretical sphere, and that of social and political praxis. He is involved in the Yale International Relations Association and does some peripheral writing for the Yale Daily News.

 

Katherine Rushfirth, Student Liaison to the Yale School of Nursing

Katherine Rushfirth is a second year Nurse-Midwifery student at Yale School of Nursing.  She received her B.A. in Anthropology and Women's Studies from Barnard College in 2007.  After graduating, she worked for the Center for Community Health Education, Research and Service (CCHERS) where she developed and coordinated a health education program for Boston public high school students focused on combatting racial and ethnic health disparities.  Currently, Katherine serves as the co-chair of the YSN's Student Diversity Action Committee.  She is also a founding member of RHEA (Reproductive Health Education and Advocacy), which works with local agencies to develop and support reproductive health services.  Her major research interests are adolescent pregnancy and trauma-informed care in reproductive health services.

Christine Slaughter, Student Liaison to the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Christine Slaughter is a second year doctoral student in sociology. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University. She currently studies gender, culture, and social theory, with a particular interest in the role humor plays in social life. Her past work has explored the place of gender and motherhood in contemporary American political discourse. She is a former Program Coordinator for the Women Faculty Forum.

 

Lindsay Szauter, Student Liaison to Yale College

Lindsay Szauter is a junior in Davenport College from Houston, Texas. She is
currently majoring in Psychology, with a particular interest in issues regarding women and gender. She is a proud member of the Yale chapter of Best Buddies, and is also involved in various theatrical productions around campus.

 

Natalia Thompson, Student Liaison to Yale College

Natalia Thompson is a freshman in Davenport College from Madison, Wisconsin. She hopes to double major in Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Natalia’s primary interests include community organizing, transnational feminisms, new media, and women’s leadership. In 2007, she founded Madison SOS (Speak Out, Sister!), a city-wide organization to engage young women in grassroots leadership and policy advocacy. Her writings on young women and feminism have appeared in several print and online publications, and she was a 2008 recipient of The Nation’s Student Writing Award. Natalia currently serves as an adviser to the National Board of the Girl Scouts of the USA.