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Using Your Degree

242 Women's Studies graduates know the answer.

Women's Studies graduates enter a number of different fields ranging from human services to law, health, education, and others.

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Here is a sampling of what recent graduates from our program picture of Loriare currently doing with their lives.

Lori Gross (class of '91) is employed by Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley as a Health Educator/Resource Coordinator where she facilitates groups and does educational workshops on a broad spectrum of sexual health issues. Lori also received a certificate in massage therapy from Florida School of Massage.

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Emily Curtis (class of '94) is a singer/songwriter living in New York City. She performs regularly in and around New York and has a CD out titled, "Radiates." She is currently trying to form an all-women band.


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Colleen Farrell (class of '99) is employed by the Rockland Family Shelter as coordinator of lesbian/bisexual services where she accompanies women to probation, family court and justice court to obtain orders of protection, temporary custody of children and temporary child support. She also co-facilitates support group for battered women and is working in collaboration with other agencies about same sex domestic violence within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered community.

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Tara Lambert
(class of '97) is a case manager for TASA at Planned Parenthood where she provides intensive case management services to 20-25 pregnant or parenting teen girls who are receiving medicaid and are living in inner city Newburgh and rural Orange County. Tara was the recepient of the Erna Lynne Heyer Memorial Scholarship, a scholarship awarded to New Paltz women's studies students who are planning to attend graduate school. Tara has been accepted into the Masters in Social Work program at NYU.