RHRJ Steering Committee and Advisors

Amherst College

Amrita Basu, Political Science, Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies (on leave Fall 2025)
Sheila Jaswal, Chemistry, Biochemistry-Biophysics                                                     
Jen Manion, History, Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies
Leah Schmalzbauer, American Studies, Sociology

Hampshire College

Jina Fast, Applied Ethics and the Common Good

Mount Holyoke College

Cora Fernandez Anderson, Comparative and Reproductive Politics
Jacquelyne Luce, Gender Studies

Smith College

Carrie Baker, Study of Women and Gender
Jeffrey Ahlman, History, African Studies

UMass Amherst

Laura Briggs, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Aline Gubrium, Public Health
Favorite Iradukunda, Nursing (on leave Fall 2025)
Betsy Krause, Anthropology
Kirsten Leng, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies 
Jennifer L. Nye, History, Law and Social Justice
Svati Shah, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

The Steering Committee consists of one representative from each of the Five Colleges, Collective Power for Reproductive Justice and the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center.

Steering Committee Chair
Jennifer L. Nye, History, UMass

Steering Committee Members
Cora Fernandez Anderson, Comparative and Reproductive Politics, Mount Holyoke College
Amrita Basu, Political Science, Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
Carrie Baker, Study of Women and Gender, Smith College
Jina Fast, Applied Ethics and the Common Good, Hampshire College
Brooke Huguley, Collective Power for Reproductive Justice
Li Cornfeld, Five College Women’s Studies Research Center