What can you do with a WGSS degree?
Our graduates are doing great things. We have strong connections to Career Services and offer a career planning class each spring. Here is a partial list of actual jobs our alums have reported to us over the years. Click on the topic that interests you.
- Administrative and Technical Work
- Arts
- Business
- Education
- Health
- Human Services
- Law
- Library Services
- Miscellaneous
- Political Action
- Organizers and/or Staff Members
- Research
- Writing, Editing & Reporting
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- Secretary
- Clerk Administrative Assistant to the Director of Administrative Services Franklin/Hampshire Community Health Center
- Town Clerk's Office
- Secretary, Obstetrician's Office
- Administrative Assistant
- Administrative Assistant in Promotion Department
- Reservations Agent, Major Airline
- Database Administrator
- Computer Programmer
- Computer Technician
- Technical and course development for engineers and systems analysts
- Management Information System Specialist
- Poet(s)
- Folk music performer
- Film and video makers
- Producer
- Director
- Clothing Line Designer (Dharmagrrl Design)
- Actress, Boston Public Theater, City State Company
- Radio State Host
- Textiles Curator
- Freelance Concert Producer
- Owner, Dance Studio
- Program Assistant, Kennedy Center Education Department
- Spanish to English Translator, Copy Editor, and Project Manager
- Founder/Director, executive search firm
- Software Operations Manager
- Vice President, Market Research Firm
- National Sales and Marketing Manager
- Marketing Manager
- International banking consultant
- Analyst and Consultant
- Technical Training/Consultant
- Technical Information Specialist
- District sales manager
- Commercial property management
- Manpower Temp Agency
- Massage Therapist
- Founder of community stress reduction company
- Resolution Trust Corporation
- Membership and Special Events Assistant, Organic Trade Association
- Head Instructor, Valley Women's Martial Arts
- Co-Manager of a bookstore
- Co-owner/Founder Typesetting Business
- Owner, Ultrasonic cleaning company
- Owner, Translation and Copyediting Business
- Business Manager, Family Dental Business
- Manager, Craft Store
- Manager, Mass Job Training Inc.
- Manager, Plant Nursery
- Cook/Administrator
Education
- Area Coordinator, Student Affairs, Smith College and UMass
- Advisor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
- Program Director, Arts Council
- Director, Education/Access Department, Fine Arts
- Director of Alumni Relations
- Coordinator of Internship Program
- Production Assistant, Communications Department
- Editor of Freedmen Southern Society Project
- Curriculum Specialist, English Literacy Project
- Admissions Counselor
- Residential Life Coordinator
- Honors Advisor
- Staff Assistant, Dean of Students Office
- Lecturer, Afro-American Studies
- Lecturer
- Assistant Professor
- Professor of History
- Professor and Chair of Women's Studies
- Field site coordinator for pre-practicum
- Professor of Women's Studies, Master's Program Director
- Computer Science
- Classes on Women and Work, Lesbians/Gay Men
- English, Mount Holyoke College
- History, University of Iowa
- Writing, Community College
- Intensive Learning Community Program
- Conflict Transformation, School for International Training
K-12 and related Educational Positions
- Daycare Teacher
- Elementary Teacher
- Elementary Art Teacher
- Elementary Special Education Teacher, Granby Public School System
- English Teacher - Middle School
- Public School Bilingual Program Teacher
- Teaching Assistant, Alternative High School
- Teacher - Teach for America
- Teacher, 8th grade English
- High school teacher, Japan
- Language Teacher, Japan
- Doctors
- Pediatrician
- Midwives
- Certified Nurse Midwife
- Doula (childbirth labor assistant and postpartum family care)
- Nurse's Aide
- Nurse
- Supervisor of Nursing
- Emergency Medical Technician
- Community Health Worker
- Women's Occupational Health Coordinator, Department of Public Health
- Mental Health Assistant/Advocate
- Founder and Manager - International Family Health
- Nurse and Counselor, Tapestry Health Systems
- Mental Health worker
- Medical Assistant/Health Educator, Women's Health Center
- Epidemiological Researcher
- Senior Management/Sales Manager/Health Care Staffing Firm
- Prevention Specialist
Administrative
- Director, First Call for Help
- Residential Director of Shelton's Inc.
- Assistant Center Manager, Library Adult Learning Center
- Coordinator, State Rental Assistance Program
- Manager, Minority AIDS Prevention Project
- Program Coordinator, Community United Against Violence
- Program Coordinator, Abortion Access Project
- Assistant Educational Trainer, Mediation and Training Collaborative
- Director, Alchini Binitsekees Naholzhooh Foundation, Inc.
- Director, Navaho Reservation, New Mexico
- Residential Coordinator of Seachanges
- Director of Membership, Western Mass Girl Scout Council
- Director of Teen Programs, YMCA/Northampton Youth Center
- Coordinator, Tapestry Health Systems
- Founder and Trainer, Mentors in Violence Prevention Program
- Social Services Director, Chicopee Council on Aging
Fundraising
- Fundraising Consultant
- Director of Funding, Ac' Tenamit/New Village, Guatemala
- Development Officer, Corporate and Foundation Funding, Gay Men's Health Crisis
- Fundraising Director, Neighbor to Neighbor
- Grants Coordinator/Database manager, Rosenberg Fund for Children
Counselors and Direct Service Staff
- Licensed Social Worker
- Psychotherapist, private therapist
- Clinical therapist
- Recreational Therapist
- Staff at adolescent and family counceling center
- Counselor of pregnant and parenting teens
- Public Health Advisor in substance abuse prevention program
- Relief staff, family shelter
- Elder care worker
- Abortion counselor
- Employee Assistance Counselor
- Recreational/Art Therapist, River Valley AIDS Project
- Technical Resource Specialist, Assistant Office Manager, Assistant Volunteer
- Hotline Assistant Coordinator, AIDS Action Committee
- Health Care Coordinator for a human service agency
- Residential Counselor with emotionally disturbed girls at Germain Lawrence School
- Hospice Spiritual Counselor
- Volunteer Coordinator, YWCA
- Assistant Corporation Counsel Environmental Law Division, NYC Law Dept.
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Programs
- Staff
- Volunteer
- Counselor/Advocate, Transitional Living Program
- Fundraiser
- Evening Advocate/Shelter Program
- Program Coordinator, Office of Justice Program Grant - Everywoman's Center (Center for Women and Community)
- Fundraiser, Womanshelter/Companeras
- One Safe Night Coordinator, Akron, OH
- Advocate, National Domestic Violence Hotline
- Investigator of Care and Protection cases (child abuse for district court)
- Victim/Witness Assistance Program Advocate
- Domestic Violence Advocate, Center for Violence Prevention
- Teen Specialist/Volunteer Coordinator, Beth Israel Deaconness Hospital
- Lawyer, LGBT Isssues
- Enviironmental Law
- Corporate Law
- Criminal Defense Law
- Police Officer
- Victim Advocate
- Coordinator, Children's Services
- Curator, State Archives
- Serials Assistant, Acquisitions Department, Library Science
- Librarian
- Librarian - Reference
- Librarian and Coordinator of bibliographic instruction
- Instructor of library research skills in Women's Studies
- Assistant Professor, Head of Reference
- Interlibrary Loan and Reference Librarian
- Parent
- Peace Corps
- Self-employed teacher/workshop leader, Body-Mind Relations
- Pet Sitting business
- Cook/Administrator
- Air Force - Personnel Officer
- Ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister
- Yoga Instructor
- Local Political Official
- Mayoral campaign worker
- Legislative Aides
- College Outreach Coordinator, State Democratic Party
- Associate Director, Massachusetts Nurses Association
- Connecticut National Abortion Rights League
- Massachusetts NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League)
- 925 (clerical workers), SEIU (Service Employees International Union)
- Political Organizer, SEIU, Local 509
- AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees)
- Field Organizer, Mass Voters for Clean Elections
- Hotel and Restaurant Employees Local
- Mass PIRG
- Mass. Coalition for the Homeless
- Assistant Coordinator of Massachusetts Youth Summit
- Program Coordinator for Community United Against Violence
- Anti-Racism Program Associate, Faith in Action Department, Unitarian Universalist Association
- Program Associate, New Voices Academic for Educational Development
- Researcher, Institute for the Study of Smoking Behavior and Policy (adolescent alcohol and drug abuse prevention)
- Research Technician on AIDS at a cancer institute
- Co-creator and Director of Mentors in Violence Prevention Project, Center for the Study of Sport in Society
- Curator, State Archives
- Epidemiological Researcher
- Reporters
- Freelance writer and editor
- Author/Biographer
- Historian/Author
- Short story writer
- Essayist
- Poet
- Novelist
- Writer, program for homeless people
- Technical writer for environmental engineering
- Editor, arts & entertainment magazine
- Co-Editor, Anthology
- Assistant Editor, Health Week
- Assistant Editor, Campus Chronicle
- Editorial Assistant, Houghton Mifflin
- Technical Editor, CTB Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
- Business Assistant for The Writer
- Health and Science Writer, The News and Observer, Raleigh, NC