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Carol
Hardy-Fanta, Director
Carol Hardy-Fanta is Director of the Center for Women
in Politics and Public Policy at UMass Boston's John
W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies. She
received her Ph.D. in Public Policy from Brandeis University's
Heller School, an MSW from Smith College, and a B.A.
from Occidental College. Dr. Hardy-Fanta is author of
two books: Latina Politics, Latino Politics: Gender,
Culture, and Political Participation in Boston (Temple
University Press, 1993) and Latino Politics in Massachusetts:
Struggles, Strategies and Prospects (Routledge Press,
2002). She is a nationally recognized scholar on Latina/o
politics and has published widely on the intersection
of gender, race and ethnicity in politics and public
policy. Her policy experience also includes welfare
reform, substance abuse and criminal justice, community
organization, reproductive rights, mental health, HIV/AIDS
programs, and bilingual education. Carol Hardy-Fanta
also serves as Director of the Graduate Certificate
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Donna
Stewartson, Associate Program Director
Donna Stewartson, is the Associate Director of the Program
for Women in Politics and Public Policy. She received
her MBA from Simmons Graduate School of Management and
a BA in Political Science and a Minor in Black Studies
from Boston College. She has worked as the Special Project
Manager at Dimock Community Health Center, Testing Coordinator
and Mortgage Scam Consultant at Lawyers' Committee for
Civil Rights and Program Technician at New Boston Pilot
Middle School. Additionally, as a community activist
in Boston, she is an Executive Board Member of the Columbia
Washington Street Neighborhood Association, an active
member of the Four Corners Action Coalition, Dudley
Street Neighborhood Initiative, a member of the Blue
Hill Avenue Early Education Center's Parent Council
and on the Planning Committee for Youth Action International
– "Women's Project Sierra Leone". She joined the Center
for Women in November 2004, bringing policy experience
in Education, Homelessness, Housing & Mortgage Scam,
Community Organizing, Women Leadership and Health Education.
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Christa
Kelleher, Faculty
Christa Kelleher is currently a faculty in the McCormack
Graduate School of Policy Studies at the University
of Massachusetts Boston. She has been affiliated with
the School's Graduate Certificate Program for Women
in Politics and Public Policy since 2002. Christa previously
taught courses in Sociology, Community Health and Public
Policy as an Assistant Professor at Pine Manor College
and, as a Lecturer at Brandeis University and Tufts
University, taught a course on women and politics. Christa
earned her M.A. in Sociology and Women's Studies (1998)
and Ph.D. in Sociology (2003) from Brandeis University.
Her doctoral research examined the complex issues facing
women during the early postpartum period in Canada and
in the U.S. with the goal of using sociological insights
to inform public policy developments related to this
area of women’s health. After graduating from Union
College with a B.A. in Political Science, Christa worked
in the Massachusetts State Senate as a Legislative Aide
to Senator Lois Pines. Christa has actively served on
the boards of several women's organizations, including
the Greater Boston and Massachusetts chapters of the
National Organization for Women (NOW) and the Massachusetts
Women's Political Caucus (MWPC). Christa teaches the
Fall "Contemporary Public Policy Issues" and serves
as the faculty for the two semester Internship component.
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Jasmine
Waddell, Faculty
In spring 2007, Jasmine Waddell joined the faculty of
the Graduate Certificate Program for Women in Politics
and Public Policy at UMass Boston’s John W. McCormack
Graduate School of Policy Studies. Jasmine earned her
M.Phil. in Comparative Social Policy (2002) and her
Ph.D. in Social Policy (2005) from the University of
Oxford. Her doctoral research explored the barriers
to effective implementation of anti-poverty policies
for women and children in the Western and Eastern Cape
provinces of post-apartheid South Africa. She completed
her B.A. with honors from Brown University and was selected
as a U.S. Rhodes Scholar in 2000. Since receiving her
Ph.D., she served as a National Institutes of Child
and Human Development (NICHD) Postdoctoral Research
Fellow at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley
College and as a Lecturer at Boston College, where she
taught a seminar on the sociology of human rights. Jasmine
is actively involved in various national organizations
such as the Association American of Rhodes Scholars
(AARS) and the Truman Scholar Alumni Association (TSA).
She also contributes to a number of community groups
including South Africa Partners, and she chaired the
2006 Bayard Rustin Community Breakfast sponsored by
the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. Jasmine
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Karen
Courtney, Faculty/Internship Coordinator
Karen Grasso Courtney is the faculty member for PAFG
622 and 624 and serves as the Program’s Internship
Coordinator. She is President of K. Courtney and Associates
Inc., the only consulting firm in New England that works
exclusively with labor and labor/management organizations.
Ms. Courtney has worked with over 30 unions performing
such services as government relations, lobbying, and
public relations. She is also the founder and director
of the Foundation for Fair Contracting of Massachusetts,
and serves as Secretary and Executive Committee member
of the National Alliance for Fair Contracting, as well
as Chair of the Advisory Board of the Labor Resource
Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Prior
to starting her own company, Ms. Courtney was Assistant
Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Labor
and Industries. She has a master's degree in labor studies
from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is
an alumna of Program for Women in Politics and Public
Policy (formerly the Women in Politics and Government
Program, when it was located at Boston College).
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