After receiving 65 great applications for the summer internship with Stop Street Harassment, I am pleased to announce that Talia Hagerty will be working with me this summer as our first-ever summer intern.
Her projects will include building up our social media accounts like Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram, blogging for SSH, and writing a Know Your Rights Toolkit to document the relevant laws and ordinances that exist for various forms of street harassment and how people can report those crimes.
We met in person on Monday when I was in New York City for meetings and a speaking engagement, and I feel very lucky to have her help. She will also represent SSH at NYC-based events.
Here’s more about Talia:
Talia Hagerty recently completed her master’s degree in Global Affairs at New York University, with a concentration in peacebuilding and peace economics. Her research focuses on participatory peacebuilding, poverty reduction, economic conflict and violence, informal economies globally, and the drug trade in Latin America specifically. At CGA, Talia was a leadership member of Lysistrata, the Center for Global Affairs Gender Working Group, and recipient of the inaugural Lysistrata Travel Grant for her research on economic justice.
Talia earned a BA in Economics from Eckerd College in 2008 and then worked for women’s economic empowerment at the Greenheart Shop social enterprise in Chicago. Since moving to New York City in 2010, she has worked on violence containment research at the Institute for Economics and Peace and collaborated with regulators, civil society, and the private sector at the environmental consulting firm Blue Marble Group (formerly Matthiessen Strategies). Talia blogs about feminism, Mexico, economics, and peace at www.theoryofchange.wordpress.com and you can find her on twitter at @taliahagerty.
