WGSS Alumna Hamidi Receives Feminist Change Agent Award for 2021

Yalda Nafiseh Hamidi (MA'2014)

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Alumna Yalda Nafiseh Hamidi (MA'2014) is the recent recipient of the Feminist Change Agent Award for 2021, given by the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA). The award is given for her innovative work as an assistant professor of gender and women's studies at Minnesota State University at Mankato working with the university's women's center to facilitate an 'Islamic Feminism Book Club.' The WGSS department is proud of her achievements. In addition to earning her MA at the University at Albany, she also received her PhD in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, SUNY.