In the spring semester, 11 Gender and Women's Studies students completed nearly 2,000 service hours in their internship work with community agencies throughout the Madison.
Each fall GWS interns are selected through an application and interview process to participate in a 6-credit internship course during the spring semester.
The internship program is designed for GWS students to connect feminist theory to practice, learn ways to participate as feminists in activism, as well as to participate in a variety of community-based agencies.
This spring GWS interns are working as educators, researchers, facilitators, writers and event planners working in the fields of sexuality education, sexual violence and abuse, domestic violence, women’s health, and youth leadership and development.
Community agencies partnering with Gender and Women’s Studies this spring include: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, the Rape Crisis Center, Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health, GSA for Safe Schools, the Madison Birth Center, the Goodman Community Center, the Wisconsin Women’s Council, Lilada’s Livingroom, EVOC, Briarpatch and the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence.