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Mission and Vision

Mission

Our mission is to provide the best education related to women’s and gender issues through our curricular and co-curricular programming on campus, and to support women and their endeavors. Off campus, we recognize our responsibility to serve the larger Orlando community by striving to build and sustain partnerships that demonstrate the pragmatic importance of the issues concerning our program.

Vision

Our program has an interdisciplinary vision of using research and teaching to focus on the relations of gender among various races, abilities, ethnicities, sexualities, social class and other differences in our society.

What is Women’s and Gender Studies?

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Support Our Program

You can support Women’s and Gender Studies at UCF with tax-deductible contributions including online donations. Find out more about how to make a gift. Donations sponsor student and faculty mentoring groups, recruitment materials, supplies and expenses for mentoring groups and more.
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2026–2027 Advisory Board

  • Edwanna Andrews – Ginsburg Center for Inclusion and Community Engagement, Assistant VP
  • Michael Armato – Sociology, Associate Lecturer
  • Amy Barnickel – Writing & Rhetoric, Senior Lecturer
  • Anne Bubriski – Women’s and Gender Studies, Director
  • Robert Cassanello – History Department, UFF President
  • Ilenia Colón Mendoza – School of Visual Arts & Design, Professor
  • Annabelle Conroy – Political Science, Associate Lecturer
  • Mariah Fermin – WGST alumna, School Social Worker
  • Betsy Kalin – Nicholson School of Communication & Media, Assistant Professor
    Joo Kim – School of Visual Arts & Design, Associate Professor
  • Holly Masturzo – WGST alumna, Seminole State College
  • Holly McDonald – School of Performing Arts, Senior Lecturer
  • Dan Novatnak – Games and Interactive Media, Associate Instructor
  • Leandra Preston – Women’s and Gender Studies, Senior Lecturer
  • Beatriz Reyes-Foster – Anthropology, Professor and Associate Dean
  • Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés – English, Professor
  • Jennifer Sandoval – Nicholson School of Communication & Media, Associate Professor
  • M.C. Santana – Professor Emerita
  • Mike Shier – Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR), Director
  • Cassi Willard – Blackstone LaunchPad @ UCF, Director

Guests

  • Lyman Brodie – College of Arts & Humanities, Executive Dean