Join us on October 20th, when WGSS PhD alum Kristen Kolenz will lead a discussion for graduate students across all departments about strategies for developing a scholar-advocate profile.
Using her experience in nonprofit leadership and immigration justice, Kristen will share techniques and advice for integrating “academic” skills and frameworks into nonprofit and movement work.
Whether you are considering a nonprofit career or sustaining advocacy from the academy, this will be an excellent opportunity to learn how Kristen’s academic profile has been an asset in advocacy spaces, and to explore how feminist graduate training can prepare you for leadership beyond the academy.
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Kristen Kolenz is a teacher-scholar-advocacy worker who graduated from OSU with her PhD in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in 2020. Since graduating, she has been a lecturer at OSU and Santa Clara University and a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University. She is currently an assistant professor of international studies at Centre College in Kentucky; the author of articles in Feminist Formations (2021), Aztlán (2024), and Latin American Research Review (2028); the coordinator of the Guatemala Scholars Network; and the current board chair of El Refugio, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that accompanies immigrants at Stewart Detention Center and their loved ones through hospitality, visitation, support, and advocacy.
