{"id":148376,"date":"2024-03-19T09:29:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=148376"},"modified":"2024-03-19T09:29:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:29:35","slug":"ten-honored-as-inaugural-women-of-wright-state-cohort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/03\/19\/ten-honored-as-inaugural-women-of-wright-state-cohort\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten honored as inaugural Women of Wright State cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_148383\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/03\/19\/ten-honored-as-inaugural-women-of-wright-state-cohort\/68917-bobbie-szabo-women-of-wright-state-recognition-brunch-3-8-24\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-148383\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148383\" class=\"size-large wp-image-148383\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2024\/03\/Women-of-Wright-State-honorees-508x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first Women of Wright State cohort was honored for supporting the Women\u2019s Center and women at Wright State and beyond.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wright State University\u2019s Women&#8217;s Center recognized March as Women\u2019s History Month with a fresh approach. Ten women were chosen from a wide field of nominees to be the inaugural cohort of Women of Wright State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Women of Wright State is an initiative designed to highlight and celebrate the contributions of women students, faculty, staff, alums and community partners,\u201d said Bobbie Szabo, assistant director of the Women\u2019s Center. \u201cThese women have supported the mission and vision of the Women\u2019s Center. This inaugural cohort has made significant contributions to the well-being of women on campus and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 10 were chosen from suggestions and nominations by colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could\u2019ve included 50 people,\u201d Szabo said, \u201cbut I wanted to highlight two students, two staff, two faulty, two alums and two community partners, making 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cohort was honored at a brunch in the Student Union on International Women\u2019s Day on March 8.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The honorees are:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Franchesca Alford<\/strong> is coordinator of vice provost operations, an advisor for the Association of Black Business Students and treasurer of the Wright State Staff Senate, taking part in staff development.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elizabeth (Liz) Ball<\/strong>, who received a bachelor\u2019s degree and a master\u2019s degree in organizational leadership from Wright State, is a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, president of the African American Alumni Society and active in her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alexys Barfield<\/strong>, a senior elementary education major, works in the Event Services Office as an operations trainer. She has worked in the childcare industry for several years and anticipates a career in education.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jessica Penwell Barnett<\/strong>, Ph.D., an associate professor of sociology with a special appointment in sexuality and gender studies, has researched autism in the United States and gender-based violence and related stigma in Kenya.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roberta Amber Cornist-Bordeneau<\/strong>, a junior majoring in entrepreneurship and minoring in marketing, is a student trustee on the Wright State University Foundation Board of Trustees, a member of the Emerging Marketing Leaders Program, an admissions ambassador in the Admissions Office and a leader in multiple student organizations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marcela De La Trigg<\/strong> created MarYSoul Expression Studio, which provides movement and art classes and helps creatives host their own events. She has participated in several events at the Women\u2019s Center.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peggy Kelly<\/strong>, senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and academic director for developmental math, teaches gateway mathematics courses and works with faculty and staff in the Equality Champions program, the Course Design Initiative and the Teaching for Student Success Symposium. Kelly graduated from Wright State with a bachelor\u2019s degree in mathematics and a master\u2019s degree in interdisciplinary science and mathematics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kate Page<\/strong>, Ph.D., is the compliance specialist and Title IX coordinator at Wright State. Page has also worked in Wright State\u2019s Department of Residence Life and Housing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kayelin Tiggs<\/strong>, who graduated from Wright State in 2015 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology, advocates for providing women incarcerated in Ohio with free access to menstrual products and is part of a coalition that provides menstrual products to girls in Ohio public schools in grades six through 12.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Samantha Webb<\/strong>, who graduated from Wright State with a bachelor\u2019s degree in environmental health sciences and from the School of Nursing, is a nurse with Greene County Public Health working with communicable diseases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kelly said it was exhilarating and humbling to be part of the\u00a0inaugural cohort of Women of Wright State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased that Wright State is honoring folks who are supporting and empowering all genders on campus and in the community,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Seeing the diversity of what all the Women of Wright State are doing to support others may spread the idea that while you can&#8217;t do everything, you can do something that makes others&#8217; lives better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Szabo, who recently marked her one-year anniversary with Wright State, said her original idea was to have a series of individual awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it didn\u2019t feel like that aligned with the Women\u2019s Center\u2019s mission of building community,\u201d Szabo said. \u201cWhen I think of the Women\u2019s Center, I think of building bridges and community, and not lifting one person above others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea of a group award arose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m planning on this being an annual event,\u201d Szabo said. \u201cI hope this will be a tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Women of Wright State cohort was honored for supporting the Women\u2019s Center and women at Wright State and beyond. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/03\/19\/ten-honored-as-inaugural-women-of-wright-state-cohort\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":148383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,729,724,711,725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-around-campus","category-awards","category-faculty-staff","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148376"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148441,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148376\/revisions\/148441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}