I was a Women and Gender Studies and Biochemistry double major and part of the CUNY Honors College. The majors were an unusual, and yet appropriate, pairing. Following my graduation from Hunter in 2007, I became a medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College. I hope to enter the field of Obstetrics & Gynecolgy. I will always be indebted to the WGS Program at Hunter for helping to make me a stronger and more aware person that is able to tackle any challenge.

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Marina Stasenko
Weill Cornell Medical College Class 2011
mas2036@med.cornell.edu
marina.stasenko@gmail.com

 

 

I began college as a Chemistry major, primarily because the pre-requisites for medical school fulfilled the requirements. By the end of my sophomore year, however, I realized my inspiration to become a physician was more closely related to the courses I had taken in the Women and Gender Studies Department, and changed majors.

A year later, I was accepted early to the University of Rochester School of Medicine on the basis of my interdisciplinary interests, and was encouraged to take a semester abroad to develop my Spanish language skills.

Contrary to the advice I received as an incoming student, majoring in Women and Gender Studies is not exclusively an option for those  who intend to pursue a PhD. I am grateful for the connections between the humanities and the practice of medicine my classes in WGS have revealed, and feel confident I will be a better physician someday because of my exposure to feminist scholarship as an undergraduate.

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Emilie Wasserman
Women and Gender Studies Major, Chemistry Minor
Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Matriculating Fall 2009
emiliewasserman@gmail.com

 

 

I came to Hunter thinking I wanted to be a doctor, but within a few weeks I withdrew from Biology and decided on pursuing Women's and Gender Studies.  It was so much more applicable to my life personally and the lives of people I care about.  The program also opened my mind to the possibility of going to Law School to have the legal backing to create the change I want to see in the world.  Law School is extremely rewarding and challenging and I am constantly drawing on my background in Women's and Gender Studies in applying the law.

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Aubrie Dillon
Berkeley Law School
aubrie.dillon@gmail.com

 

 

While I thoroughly enjoyed what I learned as a Women and Gender Studies major at Hunter, I often wondered (before and even after graduation) what the heck I would do with my degree in the real world. Now I see that I wasn't shaping myself to fit this world, but was instead preparing myself to fit this world around me. All the strength and momentum I needed to do just that was gained during my years at Hunter in that program. Now a self-proclaimed Spiritual Midwife, I live everyday as a healer with my goal being to help people heal their bodies (from physical to emotional to spiritual to sexual) so that they may ultimately reconnect with their innate, yet forgotten, divinity and power.  In other words, I help people give birth to themselves, who they were meant to be.

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Kristina Cooper
thespiritualmidwife@gmail.com