Just to give a little background, I am a current junior at
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine who hails from NYC. I am a Gender and
Women’s Studies major and Chemistry minor. I love hiking, swimming, reading,
biking, running, and listening to music (Mumford and Sons and Florence and the
Machine are some of my favorites right now). Last semester I studied abroad at
the University of Ghana; while abroad I took classes (West African dance and
drumming), traveled across the country (as well as to Togo and South Africa),
and volunteered at a local orphanage.
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Since my return from Ghana, I have worked with CeCe (shown at right), SHE's
COO, Global, and Elizabeth, SHE’s CIO and Founder, on a variety of projects.
Every Thursday, I walk, bike, or hike through the snow to CeCe’s kitchen table
(SHE’s Maine outpost), a local café or library where we roll up sleeves and we
madly work away. I have since completed a DIY technical guide based on our
partnerships with MIT, North Carolina State, and Innovation Edge. This
technical guide is now being used in Rwanda to help replicate the process.
This summer I take on a great project for the health side of
things. I will be splitting my time between Brunswick and NYC while I work to
create an open source menstrual health and hygiene best practices resource for
the launch of SHE’s new website. In Summer 2011, I worked as a sex educator in
Newark, NJ and I am excited to apply my experience in creating this resource
for others to use.
At SHE I am constantly learning new things and being
challenged. It puts a large smile on my face knowing that I am part of an
amazing global SHE team. Knowing my time and hard work makes a difference
in the life of a girl and a woman is a great feeling. Knowing that my work is
being used worldwide gives me a strong sense of pride and accomplishment; I am
constantly motivated by the millions of girls and women across the world who
lack access to menstrual pads and lack of general
knowledge. This is why I joined SHE.
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