Debbie
Walsh - bio
available here - photo available here
Director, CAWP |
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Ext.
227; e-mail:
Debbie Walsh is director of the Center for American Women and Politics
(CAWP). She joined the CAWP staff in 1981. As director of the
Center, she oversees CAWP's research, education and public
service programs. She is frequently called upon by the media
for information and comment and speaks to a variety of audiences
around the country on topics related to women's political participation. First
as director of CAWP's Program for Women Public Officials and
now as the Center's director, Walsh has led the Center's extensive
work with women officeholders and organized more than a dozen
national conferences for women officials. Debbie
serves on the board of The Women's Campaign Fund Research Fund.
She earned her B.A. in political science from SUNY Binghamton
and her M.A. in political science from Rutgers, where she was
an Eagleton Fellow.
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Susan
J. Carroll - bio available here; short
vita available here
Senior Scholar |
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Ext. 235; e-mail:
Susan Carroll joined the Center in 1981; she is also professor of political
science at Rutgers. She has conducted research on women candidates,
voters,
elected officials, and political appointees and is the author of various
works on women's political participation including Women as Candidates
in American Politics (Indiana University Press, Second Edition,
1994) and
editor of The Impact of Women in Public Office (Indiana, 2001)
and Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions (Oxford,
2003). Her Ph.D. in political science is from Indiana University.
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Katherine
Kleeman - bio available here
Senior Communications Officer |
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Ext. 231; e-mail:
Kathy Kleeman has been at the Center since 1980. She writes or edits many of the Center's proposals and publications and coordinates development of new programs and coordinates CAWP's work with Girl Scouts. Kleeman earned her A.B. from Harvard/Radcliffe and her Ed.M. from Harvard's Graduate School of Education.
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Ruth
B. Mandel - bio available here
Board of Governors Professor of Politics and Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics |
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Ext 228; e-mail:
Ruth B. Mandel, a founder of CAWP in 1971, was its director until January 1995. Currently she is director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics and remains associated with CAWP as senior scholar. An expert on women and politics, she writes and teaches about women's political history and leadership. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Connecticut.
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Gilda
Morales - bio available here
Project Manager, Information Services |
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Ext. 264; e-mail:
Gilda Morales researches, collects and organizes current and historical
data on women's political participation. She responds to inquiries
from
media,
scholars, office holders and the general public. She earned her B.A.
from Douglass College, Rutgers University and is currently finishing
her master's degree in public administration.
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Susan
Nemeth - bio available here
Director of Development |
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Ext. 229; e-mail:
As CAWP’s director of development since 1992, Nemeth has helped develop regional and national Forums for Women State Legislators, NEW Leadership™ residential programs for college women, Ready to Run™ campaign training programs for women, and research on women’s routes to elective office. The Center’s public service programs currently serve women in twenty-five states. In addition to managing CAWP’s fundraising, she serves as a public relations specialist, helping to promote new programs and recruit participants. Nemeth earned a B.A. from Douglass College and a mini-MBA from the Rutgers Center for Management Development.
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Sasha
Patterson, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator, NEW Leadership™ |
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Ext. 248; e-mail:
Sasha Patterson is currently the program manager for National Education for Women’s
Leadership, which includes the NEW Leadership™ New Jersey program as well as the NEW Leadership™ Development Network. The Development Network is CAWP’s initiative to partner with colleges and universities across the country in order to help them establish NEW Leadership™ programs in their state. Patterson started at CAWP in 1999 as a graduate assistant on the NEW Leadership™ Development Network project and became a full time employee in 2002. Patterson received her BA in political science from Northwestern University and recently completed her dissertation, “Chasing Justice, Challenging Power: Legal Consciousness and the Mobilization of Sexual Harassment Law” and received her Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers in May 2008.
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Linda
Phillips
Unit Computing Specialist |
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Ext. 225; e-mail:
Linda is responsible for the production of various in-house publications
at CAWP and Eagleton, including the CAWP fact sheets and both the Eagleton and CAWP newsletters. In addition,
she is responsible for the creation and upkeep of the CAWP and Eagleton web sites
and provides computer support for CAWP and the Eagleton Institute of
Politics.
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Jessica Rowan
Administrative Assistant |
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Ext. 224; e-mail:
Jessica performs administrative duties for both CAWP and Eagleton. She is also responsible for the maintenance and general administration of the CAWP and Eagleton database and assists in providing desktop computer support.
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Kira Sanbonmatsu - C.V. available here
Associate Professor of Political Science and CAWP Senior Scholar |
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Ext. 265; e-mail:
Kira Sanbonmatsu is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She was previously Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include gender, race/ethnicity, parties, public opinion, and state politics. She co-edits the CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics at the University of Michigan Press with Susan J. Carroll. Professor Sanbonmatsu is on leave 2007-08
She is the author of Where Women Run: Gender and Party in the American States (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and Democrats, Republicans, and the Politics of Women's Place (University of Michigan Press, 2002). Her articles have appeared in such journals as American Journal of Political Science, Politics & Gender, and Party Politics.
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Jean
Sinzdak
Project Manager, Program for Women Public Officials |
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Ext.
260; e-mail:
Jean Sinzdak coordinates CAWP's Program for Women Public Officials, aimed at increasing the impact of women in politics and making political women’s leadership more effective through national, regional, and local events and programs for women officeholders, candidates, and campaign operatives. Jean also manages CAWP’s New Jersey initiatives, including Ready to Run™, a bipartisan effort to recruit and train women to run for all levels of office, and the Bipartisan Coalition for Women's Appointments. Jean was instrumental in the development of the Diversity Initiative of Ready to Run™ New Jersey, designed to attract more women of color to the political process. Jean is currently developing a national network of campaign trainings for women, using Ready to Run™ New Jersey program as the model. Prior to joining CAWP, she served as director of outreach and communications at the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) in Washington, DC. Prior to IWPR, she worked at the Council for Urban Economic Development, also in Washington, DC. Sinzdak received a Master of Social Work, specializing in social and economic development, from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a B.A. in English from the University of Scranton.
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