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Main Line: 303-615-2052 | [email protected]
Hours of Operation: M-T 9am-4pm, Available Fridays Virtually
Mailing Address:
Campus Box 36
PO Box 173362
Denver, CO 80217
Campus Location:
Central Classroom, 314/315
10th Street Plaza
Denver, CO 80204
Pro Staff
Director/Department Chair
Call: 303-615-1996
Email: [email protected]
Bio: Anahi Russo Garrido is an associate professor in Gender, women’s and sexuality studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She completed her PhD in Gender and Women’s Studies at Rutgers University, and postdoctoral fellowships at Carleton College and Brandeis University. Her research and teaching has focused on transnational sexualities, gender and sexuality in Latin America, queer and feminist theory and social justice organizing. More particularly, her current work investigates the transformation of intimacy in Mexico City in the lives of three generations of women participating in queer spaces. She is the co-editor of “Building Feminist Movements and Organizations” and has published articles on queer Mexico City in Women Studies Quarterly, NWSA Journal and the Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies. She is the author of the monograph”Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship and Sex in Queer Mexico City” (Rutgers University Press, 2020).
Department Coordinator
Call: 303-605-5242
Email: [email protected]
Bio: Nastasia (they/them) graduated from MSU Denver in Spring 2021 with a B.A. in Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies with a Minor in Psychology. They joined GITA back in late 2019 as a student GITA Team Member and continued as part of the GITA family post-graduation as a workshop educator for the Public Feminism Lab and trainer/facilitator for GITA’s Anti-Oppression and Social Justice trainings. Nastasia joined the team as Department Coordinator in Fall 2024. They’re a transplant from the east coast and have dozens of hobbies and creative pursuits they’ll enthuse about with anyone who’ll listen!
Associate Director
Call: 303-615-2036
Email: [email protected]
Bio: Eneri “Netty” Rodriguez received their MA in Women’s Studies from San Diego State University and their BA in Chicana/o Studies and English Literature from UC Santa Barbara. They moved to Denver in 2008 and joined the MSU Denver Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy as Affiliate Faculty the following summer. Netty also worked for Project PAVE, a non-profit organization in Denver whose mission it is to empower youth to end the cycle of relationship violence. Netty has a particular interest in representations in media and popular culture, with an undeniable love for horror movies!
Anti-Oppression and Academic Excellence Program Manager
Call: 303-615-2037
Email: [email protected]
Bio: Soj Sirivanchai completed their B.S. in Biology, minoring in Chemistry from The University of Colorado, Denver. They then went on to complete a Master of Science in Microbiology from the University of California, Berkeley. As the first person in their family to attend college, Soj is most passionate about increasing access to higher education for historically underrepresented folks. Soj hopes to assist students in finding their own empowerment through holistic advising, community building, and advocacy.
Advisors
Anti-Oppression and Academic Excellence Program Manager
Assists students with all levels of Academic Advising, declaring GWS Majors and minors, advocating to get their needs met when working with Faculty or staff on campus, and crisis support.
Call: 303-615-2037
Email: [email protected] *Best way to contact Soj*
Bio:
Soj Sirivanchai completed their B.S. in Biology, minoring in Chemistry from The University of Colorado, Denver. They then went on to complete a Master of Science in Microbiology from the University of California, Berkeley. As the first person in their family to attend college, Soj is most passionate about increasing access to higher education for historically underrepresented folks. Soj hopes to assist students in finding their own empowerment through holistic advising, community building, and advocacy.
Academic Advisor I – She/her
Assist students with Academic probation, General Studies Holds, and Freshman and Sophomore students with General Studies course scheduling.
Email: [email protected]
Personal Scheduling Link:
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Office Hours –
In-Person: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
Virtual: Tuesday, Friday
Full-Time Faculty
Assistant Professor
Email: [email protected]
Call: 303-605-7607
Bio: Assistant Professor Sonny Dhoot’s current research explores how the configurations of race, capital, gender, sexuality and normalcy shape the erotic lives of queers of colour. His current research and teaching interests include, queer/trans of color critique, decolonial/critical race feminisms, transnational and women of color feminisms, and queer erotics and sexuality studies. Sonny is also interested in anti-carceral community projects.
Associate Professor
Email: [email protected]
Call: 303-556-2052
Bio: Sandra is a folklorist by training who specializes in narrative and the art and aesthetics of everyday life. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Folklore & Mythology from UCLA and her B.A. in Comparative Literature from CSULB. Dr. Posey has been published in Western Folklore, Frontiers: a Journal of Women Studies, Women’s Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal and in collections from Routledge, University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Kentucky, Anchor Books, Pearson and others. Her comic College Edge appears regularly in the independent Campus News, distributed at 37 universities and colleges.
Professor
Email: [email protected]
Call: 303-615-2038
Bio: Dr. Gerakina (Arlene) Sgoutas is a Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies, and at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her research and teaching interests include feminist interventions in global politics, international women’s resistance movements, and motherhood studies. She is co-editor with Tatjana Takševa of the publication by Demeter Press, Mothers under fire: Mothering in conflict areas (July 2015). She received the President’s Distinguished Service Award for faculty in 2014 and the Student Recognition Award for her commitment to serving students with disabilities. She has taught at MSU Denver since 2002 and served as Interim Dean for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences from 2018-2020.
Professor
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zaynab (they/themme) is a philosopher and scholar of religion and gender. zaynab holds a doctorate in Comparative Religion (Jewish and Islamic law) and an M.A in Religious Studies (Jewish Studies, Islamic Studies, Philosophy of Religion) from Chicago Theological Seminary. zaynab received their B.A from Hampshire College in Jewish Studies (Historical Antisemitism and Jewish Gender Studies). Harnessing the insights of critical phenomenology, left-feminist thought, and queer-of-color critique; zaynab’s research examines the rhetorical relationship between gender, ritual obligation, and public religious space in Jewish and Islamic law.
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Professor
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Call: 303-615-2052
Bio: Dr. Judy Strathearn has been with MSU Denver since 2016 in the Department of Africana Studies and as Interim Coordinator for Supplemental Instruction. She is now a full-time lecturer at GITA. She earned her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2017 where her dissertation investigated Gullah history and culture through the lens of gender and literature. Her research interests include Gullah Studies, Gullah Womanism and Black Feminism, and narrative strategies of Black women writers of the Diaspora. Her teaching philosophy is rooted in experiential education as a methodology to increase African Diaspora cultural knowledge and community contributions.
Affiliate Faculty
Instructor
Email:
Call: 303-615-1014
Bio: Dr. Bridgette Coble is currently the Director of Career Engagement in the Classroom to Career Hub at Metropolitan State University of Denver and has worked as a career professional for over 25 years. She earned her doctorate degree in Higher Education Program at the University of Denver with an emphasis in diversity in learning and her Master of Science degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University. Her career spans the realm of private industry and higher education but has always involved diversity, equity and inclusion, career development, and student support. Her research interests include strategies for achieving Inclusive Excellence in Higher Education, Mentoring Programs for Students of Color and African American College Student Experiences. She has also worked at Colorado State University, the University of Michigan and the Community College of Denver in the area of career services and six years leading human resource staffing initiatives at Hewlett-Packard and the spin off company Agilent Technologies. She is passionate about supporting students in their career planning journeys.
Instructor
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Call: 303-615-2052
Bio: dena harry saleh (they/them/theirs) was born in Denver to Palestinian immigrants in the late 1900’s. They attended public school until moving to New York City in the year 2000. They went to Eugene Lang College at The New School University and graduated with a BA in Writing, with a focus on Nonfiction and Fiction. They then moved back to Denver and was a teacher of Social Justice Studies for eleven years before beginning their college teaching career. They have an MA from CU Denver. They are an avid writer, reader, and cultural critic.
Instructor
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Bio:Lorena Gaibor is an affiliate faculty in GWS. Previously she served as the program coordinator of GSSW’s Latinx Social Work Certificate at DU. She also worked in New Jersey, coordinating and directing community-led programming and organizing efforts including advocacy for affordable housing, Hurricane Sandy redevelopment and immigration reform.
More recently, Gaibor has continued her community work in Denver through outreach and advocacy efforts related to immigration reform and solidarity work with communities in resistance in the U.S. and Latin America. Through her work with the Denver Justice and Peace Committee, Casa de Paz and other local organizations, she is engaged with social justice work in the community. Whenever possible, Gaibor strives to bridge the divide between the academy and local communities. Through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Instructor
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Call: 303-615-2052
Bio: Tina Diaz has been teaching MSU Denver’s Women and the Law course for over 10 years and has enjoyed every minute of it. As an adjunct instructor for the Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy, she is committed to equipping students with the skills they need to overcome whatever obstacles they face. She teaches at MSU Denver, Community College of Denver and Community College of Aurora. Before turning to a full-time professor position, Ms. Diaz was an immigration attorney in the Denver metro area for over 25 years. In her last job as an attorney, she was the immigration director at a local non-profit legal clinic, focused on providing legal representation to immigrant crime victims. She still occasionally volunteers as an attorney and remains passionate about immigrant rights. Ms. Diaz received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University and her Juris Doctorate from University of Denver.
Student Staff
Academics and Outreach
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Call: 303-615-2052
Bio: Fae (They/Them) is an Art and Gender, Women, and Sexualities double major. Fae is a part of the Scholarship Tutor team at GITA. They are looking forward to contributing to GITA, and the space they have come to love. Fae is hoping to become an art teacher and integrate what they have learned in their Gender Women, and Sexuality studies to create a more welcoming and inclusive classroom.
Scholarship Tutor
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Call: 303-615-2052
Bio: Ezra (he/him/his or they/them/theirs) is a dual major in Gender, Women, and Sexualities as well as Psychology with a plan to pursue a doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with a focus on researching equitable working conditions for queer people. He has been brought on to serve as a scholarship tutor hoping to not only gain knowledge but assist members of his community. In his free time, he loves enjoying the outdoors from reading in the park to hiking and camping with his partner and dog as well as going to watch old movies.
Scholarship Tutor
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Call: 303-615-2052
Bio: Orion Nguyen (They/Any) is an Industrial Design major with a passion for arts and crafts. Being a first-generation child in an immigrant family, they did not always have the best situations growing up. However, this did not stop their zest for life and living. They have many interests, mostly surrounding nerdy things like comics or action figures. They believe that social injustice should always be met head on, and that we as a society can only improve if we speak out against those issues. In their free time, Orion likes so all sorts of things like collect records, play videogames, take care of fish, or just read a good book.
Academics & Outreach
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Call: 303-615-2052
Bio: Saydee Jackson (She/Her/Hers) is passionate about advocacy with a major in Undeclared Nursing and a minor in Gender Studies. She is part of the Academics and Outreach team and loves making new connections. Saydee hopes to use what she has learned in GITA to make a difference in healthcare after graduation.
Academics & Outreach
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Call: 303-615-2052
Bio: Rustin Tonn (He/Him) is GWS major, with a carceral studies and prelaw focus , aiming to reduce social reliance on carceral systems and working towards healing over causing furthering harm. He’s an energetic adrenaline lover who loves being outside
Academics & Outreach
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Bio: AJ (They/Them) is the social media lead and is thrilled to be part of GITA! AJ is a first gen student majoring in anthropology and GWS. AJ hopes to queer the study of anthropology and decolonize the practices through an intersectional framework that opposes the predominant anthropocentric colonialized framework. In their free time AJ likes to skateboard, get crafty, and spend time with family and friends, especially when a good board game or round of mini golf is involved.