2024 WGSS Awards Ceremony and Reception
On Wednesday, April 24th WGSS held our annual WGSS Awards Ceremony and Reception celebrating our student award winners, graduating seniors, Triota inductees, faculty, and WGSS AlumnX Winner Caroline Fitzgerald. It was an incredible evening celebrating our department and its hard work.
Caroline Fitzgerald our 2024 WGSS AlumX Award Recipient is the CEO and Founder of Goals a women’s sports marketing consultancy and media platform which aims to grow women’s sports. Caroline is a 2012 Marketing and Women’s Studies (B.A.S.c.) Alum and an emerging alumni leader in the College of the Liberal Arts. While at Penn State, Caroline served as the merchandise director for THON 2011, a Lion Ambassador, a member of the Women’s Club basketball team, a member of the Women’s Studies Honor Society, a resident assistant, and worked for all four years as a student program associate at Penn State’s Center for Gender Equity. Caroline lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
Inductees of Undergraduates into the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honor Society, Iota Iota Iota (Triota):
Evan Cutler
Emily Choe
Aria Eichhof
Maya Fulton
Katie Mussett
Jessica Ramsey
Anjelica Rubin
Nina Thomas
Graduating Majors of WGSS:
Amina Abdullah
Amy Sanchez-DiFebo
Emily Geesey
Elly Miller
Anastasia Schechterly
Nia Smith
Jaina Spatola
Nina Thomas
Undergraduate Student Awards:
Judith Hardes Fund in the College of the Liberal Arts – Amina Abdullah
Laura Richardson Whitaker Memorial Undergraduate Award in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies – Nia Smith
Mimi Barash Coppersmith Endowed Scholarship in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies – Nia Smith
Mimi Barash Coppersmith Endowed Scholarship: Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award – Giselle Concepcion
Wietlisbach Family Award in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies – Emma Martinson and Elly Miller
Graduate Student Awards:
Laura Richardson Whitaker Memorial Graduate Award in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies – Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson and Emily Southard
