Contributors

Katie Culver

graduated from Villanova with a degree in Sociology. She taught two years in South Central LA and Washington D.C. as a volunteer with “Response-Ability.” Katie earned a Masters in Teaching from Trinity and Ph.D. in Urban Education from Temple. A mother of three, Katie is a consultant for the Barra Foundation and also leads gender workshops for teachers and parents.

Sarah Odell

is a senior and a co-captain of the Wellesley College Squash team. An English and religion double major, Odell is an avid writer, skier, and political junkie who has worked as Hillary Clinton’s personal assistant.

Laura Pappano

is writer-in-residence at Wellesley Centers for Women, co-author of Playing With the Boys (Oxford, 2008, 2009), and author of The Connection Gap (2001). Her work has appeared in print and online publications including The New York Times, Harvard Education Letter, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor and The Huffington Post. A (very) long time ago, she played Varsity Field Hockey at Yale.

Lauren Taylor

is assistant coach of Women’s Lacrosse at Yale. She graduated from Yale College in 2008 and the Yale School of Public Health in 2009. She is now working for Yale’s Global Health Leadership Institute and running a lacrosse business in her spare time.

Megan Wood

is a senior at Wellesley College majoring in Peace and Justice Studies (concentration in Women and Gender Studies). She is captain of the varsity softball team and co-president of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. She studied abroad in Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia and has interned at a Washington D.C. non-profit that helps low-income women become economically independent.