Laura Westengard She/They Associate Prof. of English (City Tech), Coordinator of Gender & Sexuality Studies (City Tech), and CLAGS Board Co-Chair (Graduate Center) Visit Profile
Sarah Soanirina Ohmer she/her/hers Polyglot, Black Feminist, womanist, literary critic focusing on trauma, healing, and spirituality, fluent in French Spanish Portuguese and English. Visit Profile
Linda M. Grasso I am a professor of English at York College and of Liberal Studies at the Graduate Center. Visit Profile
Francesca Lopez She/Her/ Francesca Lopez is an international PhD Student at The Graduate Center (CUNY, NY). She comes from Italy and lives in NYC since August 2021. Her expertise is in Gender and Media studies, focusing on the analysis of lethal gender based violence in TV crime show, horror and porn movies. She focuses on female corpses and how they are depicted by media. Further than that, she focuses also on monsters and mutants and their representation in fantasy narratives/media products. Francesca Lopez is also a feminist activist and a writer. Further than academic/scientific publications she also loves creative writing, based on life, love/relationships and fantasy tales for kids. Visit Profile
Sam Ascencio He/They/Zir/Hir Genderfluid (him/his/he) LGBTQ+ student advocate and Peer Success Coach at John Jay College Visit Profile