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Responsibilization and Retraditionalization: How Neoliberal Logics Reproduce Gender Inequities Among Women Community Organizers in Chicago
Get PDFNeoliberal capitalism creates a “crisis of care” in which social reproduction—though necessary for society—is undermined by stripping away support for caregivers, who are disproportionately women. “Social reproduction” refers to the reproduction and maintenance of the labor force via childbirth, child rearing, and caregiving for loved ones more generally. This interpretive phenomenological study examines how a crisis of care manifests for women in the workplace. Drawing upon in-depth, semistructured interviews with Chicago-based women who work as community organizers, our findings demonstrate that sexism in the workplace, coupled with the gendering of care work, creates unique difficulties for these women. By integrating the work of feminist critical theorists who argue that neoliberal logics produce gendered impacts, particularly due to processes they call responsibilization and retraditionalization, our findings help explain why and how gender subordination and gendered divisions of labor persist, even in organizations with a professed commitment to social justice
Rush Generation social work internship experience
No full textMy presentation is on my experience as a social work Intern at Rush University Medical Center, and the restoration program. I talk about the different services I was involved in while interning for a year at Rush University Medical Center
Loyola’s Student to Mentor Connection: Women’s Studies and Gender Studies’ impact
No full textOver the Fall 2023 semester Women’s Studies and Gender Studies internship, Carly explored the ways to improve undergraduate student, graduate student, and alumni engagement with the department, and with each other. Through platforms such as LoyolaLinked and one-on-one conversations with WSGS participants, there began to be a better understanding of the connection and value the WSGS program has on Loyola’s campus. Over the semester, Carly wrote the Alumni newsletter, promoted engagement, facilitated interviews, handled social media, and led many projects in the office
Tuesday\u27s Child: My Experience as a Behavioral Intervention Intern
Get PDFThis presentation will describe my experience as a behavioral intervention intern at Tuesday’s Child, a non-profit organization specializing in behavioral management and emotional regulation. Throughout my time at Tuesday’s Child, I have learned the meaning of being flexible, learning to quickly transition from teaching to counseling to advocacy in a matter of minutes. Through this experience, I have learned that every child has the potential to be successful in life if they are given the individual support and care they need to thrive
UV Radiation Device: Measuring UV Index Across the Solar Eclipse
Get PDFThis project describes our experience of building a UV Radiation Sensor using Arduino Unos. Over the course of the 2024 Spring semester, we worked in a group of three in the Advanced Physics Laboratory using readily available materials to build a UV sensor and measure the radiation on the LUC campus. We then compared our measured values to accepted values from the Weather Channel’s website. We also took measurements of the UV radiation across the partial (94% coverage) solar eclipse on LUC\u27s campus
Analyzing the Impact of the BglB (M114S) Mutation on Catalytic Efficiency
Get PDFThe BglB enzyme, B-glucosidase, is a component in cellulase. It plays a role in catalyzing the enzymatic reaction of glucose formation during cellulose hydrolysis (Wright RM et al, 1992). We performed a mutation (M114S) on the BglB enzyme and performed data analysis to characterize the mutation\u27s effects on the protein’s structure and function. The series of laboratory methods performed included sequencing, bacterial transformation, affinity purification, enzymatic kinetic assay, and finally analyzing our data with unsuccessful submission to the D2D database. We hypothesized that our BglB mutation, M114S, would show decreased catalytic efficiency compared to the wild type. We confirmed that our mutant had lower enzymatic activity based on the assay data and Michaelis-Menten plot showing little to no activity above background noise for increasing substrate concentrations
Illinois Clean Energy Policy and Procurement
Get PDFThis presentation describes my applied research experience with the Illinois Power Agency (IPA) in our vision to enhance the state’s clean energy portfolio by equitable and cost-effective means. Over the Spring 2024 semester, I produced reports on program expansions and aided administrative operations of the Planning and Procurement Bureau, particularly providing research support on energy storage distribution grid impacts for the 2024 IPA Policy Study and researching alignment between federal and state definitions of environmental justice communities. Throughout this experience, I gained insight into state policy frameworks and stakeholder collaboration to advance a clean energy transition
Trabecular development in a growth series of the early tetrapod Ossinodus with implications for the water-to-land transition.
No full textNearly 350 million years ago, early tetrapods made a critical transition from living in water to living on land. How this transition happened remains relatively unknown in vertebrate evolution. To better understand how early tetrapods may have spent time on land during their lifetimes, I examined a growth series of femora from an early Australian tetrapod, Ossinodus. My preliminary results indicate that trabecular bone varies between the life stages of Ossinodus. The implication of this difference may reveal that this early tetrapod spent different parts of its life in water and on land
Seedble Internship Portfolio
No full textMy presentation is a recorded video where I present my learning portfolio to my class, going over my activities and completed projects at my internship
Enhancing Default Mode Network Connectivity: Experimental Neuroscience and Computational Methods
No full textThe default mode network (DMN) in the human brain is involved in a broad array of cognitive functions, including creative thinking. Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (TES) is a popular non-invasive brain stimulation. TES has three types: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS), and Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (tRNS). The mechanisms of each TES method still need to be better understood. This study proposes simulation of the DMN using HD-tDCS, alpha-HD-tACS, high-frequency HD-tRNS, and sham. We intend to reveal how the three TES methods impact DMN activity and connectivity using scalp electroencephalography (EEG). Co-Authored by: Kahiau Among, DJ Capetillo, August Decz, Maria Dima, Kyle Kovich, Emily Rokos, Robert G. Morrison