2005 COHORT
Johanna Buchignani: Johanna is a graduate of Vassar College with a B.A. in Sociology. Bringing issues of social justice and equality to the forefront of her academic and personal pursuits has always been a consistent thread in her life. He focus is around the possibility of progressive social change, equal rights and gender-neutral policy making. These interests also include a focus on transgender and gender-queer theory and politics.
Grae Cook: Grae is a gradudate of the University of San Francisco with a B.A. in Sociology and a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Grae is interested in queer theory, social movement theory, radical sex politics, and gender studies. For her thesis, she will be looking at how transgender medical discourse affects FTMs' gender identity.
Eizabeth
Eno: Liz holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado.
She will be interviewing lesbian or queer women who identify as femme
for her thesis. She is interested in their (in)visibility in the queer
community in the Bay Area. She anticipates entering a Sociology PhD program
after completing her MA. She hopes to become a university professor in
the emerging queer and lesbian/gay studies departments starting up across
the U.S. She is the current GSO Co-President with Trevor Hoppe.
Scott Hertzberg: Scott received his BA in Anthropology
from Saint Mary's College of California. His research interests include
adolescent sexuality, sexuality education, sex and the Internet, anthropology
of sex. His MA thesis is: WWW.SEX.EDU? An analysis of the Internet
as a healthy sex educator. He plans on looking at different sexuality
education websites (determined through a Google search of common search
terms) and evaluating them based on criteria for sexuality education curricula
as determined by SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of
the United States). He will also be interviewing primary school sex ed
teachers concerning the use of the Internet in their sex ed programs.
Jesse Hewitt Jesse is from Brooklyn, He attended Tisch school of the arts at NYU where he was a dancer/choreographer/performance artist. His research interest is and thesis is looking at power dynamics, gender, and patriarchy within sex acts between male-born men (bio boys) and FtMs (trans boys). He also helps edit the NSRC's academic journal, Sexual Research & Social Policy, part-time.
Trevor Hoppe: Trevor is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a B.A in Political Science. He is the current GSO Co-President with Liz Eno. His research is on how young (20-25) HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay men respond and relate to the "HIV Stops With Me" HIV prevention campaign in San Francisco. Trevor is also the first recipient of the 2006 Jim Brogan Teaching Scholarship.
Justin
Jones: Justin is a graduate of Northwestern University. He holds
a B.S. in Speech. His focus is on healthy policy, sexual minorities and
social justice issues. According to Justin, " It is important in
our cultural evolution to destroy misconceptions around sexuality and
to come to terms with our bodies to help move beyond prejudice and falsehoods."
His thesis is on health discrimination, public health and gay and lesbian
young adults.
Ebony Smith: Ebony is a graduate of California State
University Northridge. She holds a B.A. in Child and Adolescent Development.
Ebony's research interests are with adolescents specifically Black adolescent
girls and their sexual decision making. Her career goal is to educate
teens and their parents on how to deal with teen issues of sex, birth
control, sexuality and their psychological aspects through collaborations
with school, organizations and institutions to create sex education programs
to provide for a healthy lifestyle.
Ethan Suniewick: Ethan received his B.A. in Cultural
Anthropology from Smith College. He will be completing a film for his
masters' thesis about how to be culturally competent when serving trans/gender
queer individuals in medical settings. He is interested in all things
trans-related or relevant.
Libby Truesdell: Libby received her B.A. from the University
of Iowa in Interdepartmental Studies. She is interested in the same-sex
marriage movement and it's complex relationship with lesbigay America.
Her research focus is on attempting to queer sex education curricula through
queer theory. Libby is also our 2006 Grant A. Larsen Scholarship recipient.
Danielle Young: Danielle's research interests are currently: adolescent sexuality, media & sexuality (especially magazines, but TV is pretty cool too), virginity pledges, religion & sexuality, and celibacy. She is excited by the ideas of compulsory heterosexuality and hegemonic masculinity, and she plans on applying to PhD's in (developmental/ social/ gender) psychology next year. She hopes to produce research that will influence public policy on sexuality. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a B.A. in Psychology.
