Graduation year: 1999
Majors/Minors: American Studies, Gender Studies
Current occupation: Associate Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi. Our mission is to document and celebrate the diverse food cultures of the American South. We set a common table where black and white, rich and poor-all who gather-may consider our history and our future in a spirit of reconciliation.
Favorite Gender Studies class/professor/memory from your experience at Notre Dame:
Now I work for an organization that uses food a means of exploring all the same gender/race/class issues that were first introduced to me through Gender Studies at ND.
How your Gender Studies education has impacted your life:
After leaving ND, I went on to do a year of AmeriCorps teaching in Tuskegee, Alabama, and then moved to the University of Mississippi to pursue a Masters Degree in Southern Studies.
Your hopes for the future of Gender Studies at Notre Dame:
More student enrollment, of course!