ENPH Alumni

Kennedy Brooks is an alumna of the MA in Engaged & Public Humanities who graduated in 2022. Her area of interests include feminist and queer traditions within the study of women and law. In addition to addressing broad issues of sexuality within American popular culture, she aspires to address the lived experiences and cultural expressions of all gendered and sexuality individuals within the African Diaspora. Through grappling both with cultural expressions and lived experiences of individuals at various intersections of social experience, she aims to continue to push toward explicating the interrelationships between race, gender, sexuality, and class. Kennedy was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a Spelman College Alumna, Class of 2021. At Spelman, she majored in Comparative Women’s Studies, with a minor in Film and Visual Culture.

Cassie Houy is a 2017 graduate from San Diego State University with a BA in Communication. She competed as a Coxswain for the SDSU D1 Women’s Rowing team, rowing for four years on the gorgeous body of water that is Mission Bay. Having grown up in Washington, D.C, she has always had a passion for current events and the erratic exhibitions that float around the world-famous museums downtown. After college, Cassie moved to NYC to explore a career in HR/Recruiting but came to realize she wanted her career to have more of a societal impact.

The ENPH program has been a crucial way for her to pivot her career and study the impact museums can have on communities and culture. She plans to combine the humanities with modern-day museum studies to ultimately reach her goal of engaging communities at a local level and generating room for necessary conversations in society. Her favorite food is pho and her favorite hobby is biking around DC to a good playlist.

My name is Dayea Jeong. I graduated from Ewha Womans University located in Seoul, South Korea in 2020, and I majored in Sociology. While studying sociology, I learned that the various problems we face in our daily lives are actually closely linked to the social structure. I’m interested in the social phenomena and culture that is happening around us. Also, I was born and raised in South Korea, so I am very interested in connecting Korean culture and humanities.

She graduated the Georgetown ENPH program in 2022.

Ethan completed his undergraduate degree at Georgetown University and graduated as a member of the class of 2021, having majored in Sociology and Government with a concentration in political theory. He is also a member of the Men’s Soccer team and the current captain for the 2021 fall season. Shaped by his experiences growing up in an environment where you interact with people from all different cultures and backgrounds on the soccer field, he chose this program to give him the platform to continue perusing his interests in intercultural cohabitation. Wanting a career with a direct impact on the community around him, he is excited to have this program to continue to grow as an individual and expand on his knowledge and experience with the humanities.

He graduated from the ENPH program in 2022.

Sosse graduated from UC Berkeley in 2021 with a B.A. in Comparative Literature and a minor in Middle East Studies. While completing her undergraduate degree, she continuously interned for federal agencies and as a representative for various political organizations. She also served as the Vice President of UC Berkeley’s Armenian Students’ Association, being honored with the 2021 Student of the Year Award of the Armenian Studies Program.

Her primary academic interests include museum studies, Near Eastern history, Middle Eastern representation, and cultural preservation. She plans to apply her MA in Engaged and Public Humanities as a valuable asset to her Armenian and Lebanese communities in the realm of cultural and political representation.

María José Pareja Rozo is an alumna of the MA in Engaged and Public Humanities at Georgetown University. She is interested in public conversations and the possibilities of dialogue for creating understanding, mediating conflict and strengthening democracy in a pluralist and multicultural society. María José graduated from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, in 2015, with a B.A. in Anthropology and a minor in Literature. She has worked across multiple fields, that include qualitative research, social development, education, writing and the public arts. These experiences have taught her the value of asking questions and listening to people’s diverse perspectives and experiences, as a way of opening up thoughtful discussions that deepen our insight on how we relate to each other and inspire social transformations.

My name is Hamza Rehman and my advice to incoming students is to make sure you take advantage of the program’s resources and flexibility. It allows you to explore and take advantage of what Georgetown offers as a whole rather than just the program’s niche. I believe that is what I’m most proud of after a year here. I was able to take classes with internationally renowned professors that were able to give first-hand prospectives enhancing the learning process. It truly has been amazing to be able to learn in this way, and I am grateful I was given this opportunity.

Chanel Williams has used her career as a public relations professional to center her passion for making arts and culture institutions more accessible and inclusive through storytelling. Having supported the mission, vision, and values at both the Smithsonian Institution and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, she often embraces the themes of empathy and equity in her PR practice. As a native of the DMV, she knows the impact that D.C. memorials, museums, performing arts venues, and cultural institutions have on enriching the lives of native Washingtonians and the nation more broadly.

She also knows there is no single approach to equity in the arts, so she continues to educate herself on emerging practices and is using the MA Program in Engaged and Public Humanities as means to gain a more expansive knowledge of the skills and methods common to the humanities to offer creative solutions to global and local challenges that the world faces.

Finally, Chanel believes that Prince was the greatest musicians of all time and no one will ever change her mind.