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Christina Bejarano, PhD, interviewed for 'FiveThirtyEight' article about women of color in Congress

1/19/21

There are “two pieces to the puzzle: Mobilizing those voters, and finding the candidates out of that group,” as Christina Bejarano, PhD, a political scientist at Texas Woman’s University, put it in the recent FiveThirtyEight article, "Women of Color Were Shut Out of Congress For Decades. Now They're Transforming It."

Patrick Bynane, PhD, weighs in on job market trends for recent grads

1/14/21

Patrick Bynane, Ph.D., professor and director of the TWU Theatre Program, was interviewed for a recent Zippia article on job trends in the performing arts. "Graduates in the arts are incredibly resilient and have a great passion for what they do. These are traits that will be extraordinarily useful in the our post-pandemic world," said Bynane.

"I also think that the skills that are learned in a performing or fine arts program are very transferable to other realms and that one of the things we will see as a result of the pandemic are interesting new applications of the skills learned in these programs."

Visual Arts alumna Kalee Appleton (MFA '14) named 2021 Carter Community Artist

1/7/21

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art recently announced its 2021 Carter Community Artists: Kalee Appleton, Brenda Ciardiello, Michelle Cortez Gonzales and Kasey Short. Every year, the Carter selects four local artists to assist with planning and leading programs on-site, off-site and virtually. Throughout 2021, these Carter Community Artists will bring their distinct points of view to events and projects as they make connections to the museum’s expansive collection, exhibitions and rich history with the local community.

Appleton is a Fort Worth-based artist and assistant professor of photography at Texas Christian University. She earned her BFA in Photography from Texas Tech University (2005) and MFA in Art from Texas Woman’s University (2014). Kalee is an experimental artist whose work deals with digital technologies and their effects on society, as well the theoretical aspects of contemporary landscape photography.

After earning bachelor’s at 70, grandmother has eye on master’s

1/28/21

If fulfilling her lifelong ambition of earning a bachelor’s degree wasn’t proof enough that Edna Rawson won’t let age be a barrier to her success, consider this: The 70-year-old grandmother now has her sights set on a master’s degree in social work.

Phillips-Cunningham publishes 'Washington Post' op-ed

12/10/20

Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, PhD, Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies Program Director, recently published an op-ed in The Washington Post. "The long history of Black women organizing in Georgia might decide Senate control" chronicles the ways in which Black women in Georgia have shaped local and state politics for more than a century. Phillips-Cunningham's work is supported by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership and the OpEd Project's Public Voices of the South fellowship program.