Contribute to WGST Student Scholarship Funds!

The Department of Women and Gender Studies offers several scholarships and awards to our students each year. The recipients are chosen by our faculty, to honor the most exceptional students for their academic work, campus activism, and service to the department. Contributing to these funds helps support students with financial need, first-generation college students, and those from underrepresented groups. Learn more about our highly deserving 2020 scholarship recipients -- and be on the lookout for the announcement of our 2021 scholarship awardees in the next issue of Bolder Voices in May!

Lucile Berkeley Buchanan
Scholarship Endowment Fund

Jean Dubofsky Scholarship
in Women and Gender Studies

This award provides support to Women and Gender Studies majors, based on strong academic performance and a demonstrated commitment to social justice. It was established by Dr. Joanne Arnold in honor of Jean Dubofsky (pictured left), the first female justice of the Colorado Supreme Court and attorney who led the U.S. Supreme Court case to overturn Colorado鈥檚 Amendment 2, a landmark ruling for LGBTQ rights.

Andermarch Cicogna Endowed Scholarship Fund

The Andermarch Cicogna Scholarship provides scholarship support to undergraduate students majoring in women and gender studies and/or Italian, in acknowledgement of the two women for whom the award is named, in the spirit of compassion, understanding, social justice, and academic pursuit. Established by former CU professors Valerio Ferme (pictured left), and his spouse, Giorgio Corda, in honor of their mothers, they shared that "this scholarship is about making sure we continue to provide resources outside of the traditional funding streams so that we can allow students who come from less-privileged backgrounds the opportunity to have a transformative education, so that they can then make a transformation in society themselves, because we certainly need some of that moving forward. That鈥檚 how I see this helping make a little difference." Read more about the women for whom this award was named in A&S Magazine.

WGST Student Professional Development Fund

This fund supports the professional development activities of Women and Gender Studies students, including research expenses, conference fees, and other uses that further the mission of the field of women and gender studies.

Women and Gender Studies Program Fund

This fund supports the general needs of the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the 麻豆影院.

Thank you for helping to support the Department of Women and Gender Studies, and our students! For more information or additional questions, please contact us at wgst@colorado.edu or CU Advancement at Giving@CU.edu

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As part of the monthly TRANSforming Gender Conference, faculty from various universities in Colorado (including CU 麻豆影院, Metropolitan State University, and Colorado College) gathered for a panel on February 23rd to speak about their experiences as trans/nonbinary faculty of color in doing research, activism, teaching and mentoring in higher education. The presenters included WGST's assistant professor, Dr. Kristie, Soares, Dr. Nishant Upadhyay of Ethnic Studies, Dr. Jeremy Calder of Linguistics, and Dr. Shaz Zamore of ATLAS. The event was moderated by Lau Malaver, a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies also enrolled in the WGST Graduate Certificate program.

This event was hosted by the CU Pride Office as part of the Center for Inclusion and Social Change's campuswide initiative The Power of Community: Courage, Healing and Unity. Video from this event can be view below, and the panelists also encourage you to listen to the that they contributed to:  

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-5aebOdA9w]

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