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Julia Keleher

Hometown: Sioux City, IA. I received my B.S. in Psychology in 2007 from Iowa State University. My research interests include: LGBT issues specifically lesbian gender and transgender issues, identity formation and adult attachment. In my free time, I enjoy listening to punk rock, watching horror and sci-fi movies and television, and reading comics and graphic novels.

Sara Campbell

Hometown: Madison, WI. As a senior in high school, I studied abroad at a high school in Germany and have continually returned to visit my host family and study. I graduated in 2005 from the University of Minnesota, Morris, majoring in Political Science and German. I am pursuing a J.D. at William Mitchell College of Law as well as my M.S. in Women’s Studies. My interests include how legal theory has been affected by various women’s movements (and vice versa); to quote a favorite book of mine, I am interested in the “sexual politics of meat”; and am also interested in body image and empowerment – especially in regards to genderqueer (transgender) MTFs involved in the sex trade. I currently live in St. Paul with my partner, Jenn, and our two cats, Cow and Goose. I am a vegan who loves animals, watching movies and reading.

Tomoyo Nagase

I was born in Japan, lived in Chicago for a year, went back to Japan, and finally came back to the U.S. three and a half years ago! I lived in Wichita, KS, before moving to Mankato, MN. I graduated from Wichita State University with a BA in Women’s Studies and minor in Sociology. My academic interests are girls’/women’s education in developing countries and gender inequality in Asian countries (especially in Japanese society). Outside of academia, I enjoy playing any kind of sport, listening to music, singing, exploring new places, and of course, chatting. I love living in the U.S. and hopefully two years from now, I can live in my dream city, New York, to make my dreams come true after I get my masters here at Minnesota State University.
“I am tough, I am ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.” -Madonna Ciccone

Shannon Christopher

Hometown: Minneapolis, MN. I graduated in May of 2008 with a B.A. in Women's Studies from Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN. Within Women's Studies, I am particularly interested in reproductive rights, and have learned a good deal from working with Planned Parenthood, both in their clinics and at various community events and that was a great experience. I am also involved in LGBT advocacy and have interest in women's health issues such as chronic pain and substance abuse. On my own time, I enjoy reading memoirs and biographies (particularly those of political families and people), a variety of television, movies, and music, riding my scooter, walking, friends, and spending quality time with my furry baby, Jack the Pomeranian.
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." -Eleanor Roosevelt

Jerry McCabe

Hometown: Minneapolis, MN. I earned my B.A. in Liberal Arts from Metropolitan State University in 2007. My present research interests include queer and feminist social movements, the anthropology of gender, and cross-cultural feminist movements. In my spare time I enjoy reading, biking, volunteering, and trekking through the outdoors.

Christal Lustig

Hometown: Owatonna, MN. I graduated from Minnesota State University Mankato with my Bachelor’s Degree in Women’s Studies and minor in Ethnic Studies in 2006. I enjoy listening to music, playing Baldur's Gate, drinking copious amounts of coffee daily, and doing activist work for the LGBT Center, Women's Center, and related groups. I also enjoy trans-Atlantic travel, as frequently as possible. I am interested in all aspects of gender, and sex-positive, transnational, and radical feminist viewpoints.
"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."–Margaret Cho

Katie Aase

Hometown: Maple Grove, MN. In 2007 I received my B.A. in Humanities and B.F.A. in Creative Writing from Bemidji State University, with minors in Women's Studies and International Studies. During my undergraduate work I was lucky to have the opportunity to travel overseas twice, once to China and once to New Zealand. Women's Studies has always felt like a natural area of study for me. I am interested in issues of gender expression, sexual identity and how it relates to gender expression, and fiction in relation to these two topics, as well as a vast array of other feminist and gender topics and issues. I love finding connections between things! In my free time, I enjoy reading and writing fiction and am hoping to continue with my education and receive my M.F.A. in Creative Writing as well as my Ph.D. (area of study undecided). Currently I'm starting my Master’s thesis and fostering cats.
"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." -G.K. Chesterton

Jessica Martinez

Hometown: Rosemount, MN. I received my B.A in Women’s Studies from Metropolitan State University in 2007. I have focused my professional life on family violence issues, working as an advocate in a metro area domestic violence shelter, as a crisis care provider with the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, and as a Guardian ad Litem in Hennepin County Juvenile Court. My research interests include the intersection of nationalism, gender and grief, and whatever other feminist issues happen to inspire or frustrate me on idle afternoons.

Evangeline Simmons

Hometown: Ligonier, PA. After graduating from a small liberal arts college in Asheville, NC, with a B.A. in Sociology and a minor in Women's Studies, I worked at an Oregon non-profit domestic and sexual assault victim services organization for about 4 1/2 years. Now I'm here in Minnesota, halfway through a dual degree J.D. (at William Mitchell College of Law) and Women's Studies M.S. My interests are in violence against women, global feminisms, Indigenous women and theory, and feminist jurisprudence. In the summertime, I enjoy reading whatever I want to.
"Compassion is the chief law of human existence." --Dostoevsky