Please introduce yourself to the class. Your introduction can include whatever you would like to share about your background, experience, and interest in Gender and Women’s Studies, burning questions you would like to explore this semester, concerns you have about the course — and anything else that you would like us to know. Feel free to add video, photo, audio, or any other media that helps you to introduce yourself to us!
Hi my name is alyssa. This is my last semester at BMCC before i transfer to a four year college. I am from Brooklyn New York but my family is from Trinidad and Barbados. I’m a dancer for a professional dance company and I also work at a after school teaching children dance. I would like to a school counselor or a social worker. When I first came into to college i wanted to do psychology but quickly switch over to Gender and women’s studies because it connected more to what I wanted to to. I took one GWS class and i knew that this is were I needed to be instead of psychology. I did not really know what i wanted to major in when I first started school but i knew the career path that i wanted to take. I feel like I’ve always be a advocate for women especially black women. There is so much that goes on in the black community that damages young girls and boys and it is never spoken about. I’m Pro-black and womanist but I speak on all issues that I have knowledge on. I don’t think i have questions I’m just really to drive in and get all the information that I can and learn more. There is so much that goes on all over the world that affects women, child and the LGBTQ+ community that needs to be changed and brought to light and honesty i just want to help and be apart of that change.