MAEPH Graduate Students

Molly graduated from Rhodes College in 2019 with a BA in Psychology and a minor in French. Serving as Director of Communications for the Downtown Orlando Partnership—the local chamber of commerce— Molly focuses on strengthening business relationships through strategic communications, programming, and fundraising.

Raised in Orlando, Florida, Molly grew up traveling internationally and learned the value of culturally immersive experiences. As an MA candidate in the Engaged and Public Humanities, she is eager to combine her personal and professional experiences with the interdisciplinary nature of the program. Molly looks forward to exploring the relationship between humanities and cultural identity in society, and hopes to spark discussions that incite change and strengthen the ways we communicate with each other.

Samantha is a 2022 graduate of Georgetown University with a BS in Biology. She competed on Georgetown’s Cross Country and Track team and will continue to do so while in the MAEPH program. She is excited to build upon her medical interests and study the intersection between humanities and science, aiming to infuse more elements of justice and cultural competency to health care.

My name is Josie Formica, and I am thrilled to be a part of Georgetown’s MAEPH program, continuing my education in Washington, DC. I graduated from American University in the spring of 2022 with a degree in American Studies, and I also competed on AU’s field hockey team.

My undergraduate degree has prepared me for this next step to take action on my passion for the humanities. I am grateful for this opportunity to study the different ways I can pursue social justice through the career I will begin to build here.

Nicky Glossman has been a professional playwright since the age of 15, when he won a national competition and was published by Samuel French. As he has continued to write and be produced throughout the East coast, he pursued his other passions by graduating from Brown University (’18) with a degree in History and working for a congressional campaign in his home state of New Jersey. At Georgetown, Nicky hopes to blend all three of these passions, creating compelling dramatic works for the public that draw on a strong understanding of the past in order to imagine a better future.

I’m Willie Lieberman. I grew up in Georgia after spending early childhood in Connecticut and Louisiana. Originally attending UCLA as an opera vocal performance major, I switched to history to explore human nature through the past.

Emory University’s research opportunities inspired me to transfer for my second half of college. With funding from humanities fellowships, I wrote my honors thesis – an interdisciplinary exploration of opera, gender, and cultural politics in 17th-century England.

This experience revealed my passion for writing and analysis. I now aim to utilize these abilities in an outward-reaching profession. My year in Georgetown’s MAEPH will tailor my skills for public-facing work – beyond academia.

Jaeidah Reed is an M.A. candidate in the Engaged and Public Humanities program at Georgetown University. Jaeidah graduated from Southern Methodist University, with a B.A. in both Human Rights and Biology and a minor in Jewish Studies and Women and Gender Studies. She has worked in several non-profit fields including sexual assault and domestic sex and labor trafficking. Through direct experience, Jaeidah has learned about the intersection of societal issues that allow traffickers to thrive and would like to continue to work to address these needs. Jaeidah hopes to broaden her perspective of problem-solving in conflict resolution, deepen her understanding of refugee and migrant issues, and creative resolutions to a centuries-old problem: human trafficking through social transformation.

Christina graduated from Calvin University in 2019 with a major in History and minors in Data Science and Studio Art. During an internship at the Gerald R Ford Presidential Museum, she experienced the work of public history. After graduating, she worked in campus ministry at the University of Michigan, learning the importance of asking good questions to understand context. Christina is excited to continue her studies at Georgetown to better learn the benefits of the humanities for understanding people. She is interested in groups who change their thinking over time and communities made up of people who share different histories.

My name is Natalie Stallworth and I am very excited to join the MAEPH program this fall. I am a current member of Phi Kappa Phi, and eager amateur hiker, and a proud graduate from a women’s college in a small town. I graduated with a BA from Wesleyan College in my hometown of Macon, Georgia. At my small, liberal arts women’s college I double-majored in English and Advertising/Marketing Communications and very nearly exhausted my love for Shakespeare and Austen. I was raised and educated in a literature-rich environment and between my various undergraduate business and history classes I consciously realized the connection between stories, empathy, and communication. Empathy equals understanding and understanding leads to positive change. Applying humanities to seemingly unrelated fields like education and healthcare structure and policy is where I want to facilitate change, and I can’t think of a better place to start than in DC.