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. If you are an alum and have news about what/how you're doing, please email: wgss-alum-news@umass.edu
- 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
- 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