After completing her Ph. D. in English at Washington State University, Rita Jones moved to the University of Northern Colorado, where she was an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Women's Studies.
Her research interests include motherhood, women in medicine, millennial notions of successful femininity, and women in higher education leadership positions. Rita enjoys both working with students in and out of the classroom and engaging the campus community in larger dialogues about the status of women locally and globally.
She enjoys spending time with her family at local Lehigh Valley outdoor attractions, making bread from scratch (no bread machines!), reading with her kids, and talking theory with her spouse.
Assistant Director
Michelle Issadore, M.Ed
610-758-5808 mii206@lehigh.edu
Michelle Issadore was born and raised in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. She attended Brandeis University and graduated in 2004 with a double major in Psychology and Women's Studies, as well as a minor in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. She also spent a semester studying at University College London in London, England. She then moved on to Penn State University's Master's program in College Student Affairs, where she worked as a Graduate Assistant with their peer hotline.
This is Michelle's third year at Lehigh, where she started as the Sexual Violence Prevention Coordinator in the Women's Center before becoming the Assistant Director in 2007. Michelle takes great pleasure in engaging with Lehigh's fabulous students, faculty, and staff around why we still need feminism and the prevalence of sexism and violence against women in popular culture.
In her own time, Michelle enjoys reading, skiing, singing (badly) in her car, and spending time with her partner, Scott, and her family and friends.
Nicole was a life-long resident of New York, being born and raised in the rural Finger Lakes region of New York and having attended college in Long Island. She moved to the Lehigh Valley in January 2008. She graduated from Stony Brook University in 2007, receiving her BA in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Media Arts. She is currently taking Sociology graduate courses at Lehigh.
Nicole employs a variety of skills at the Center, heavily centered on her mastery of all things technological. At the Center, web and graphic design has become her trademark. As a student, her research interests centered on hidden rationality in mythology and ritual behavior.
In her spare time, she cooks Thai, watches bad Vh1 television, and plays videogames- primarily SNES and the Nintendo Wii.
Student Staff:
Elizabeth Vogtsberger
Graduate Intern
Kristina Fennelly
Graduate Intern
Alisha Gonzales
BEA Co-Coordinator, SAM Project Co-Coordinator
Shelly Harris
Break The Silence Member, Intern
Elisa Pennetti
Body Empowerment Alliance Co-Coordinator
