Director & Steering Committee
Jessica Bacal, Director
Phone: (413) 585-4914
E-mail: jbacal@smith.edu
Jessica Bacal grew up in New York City and lived there until she moved to Northampton with her family in 2006. She began at Smith on the Women's Narratives Project, and soon started also working with the team that was developing the Center for Work & Life. She became its director in 2010. Jessica holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College, an M.S.Ed. from Bank Street College of Education, and an M.F.A. in fiction from Hunter College. Before coming to Smith, she worked as an editor, an elementary school teacher and an educational writer and consultant. Her stories and essays have appeared in Sou'wester, The Crab Creek Review, Amoskeag, The Daily Hampshire Gazette and Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Moms. Jessica lives with her husband and two children.
Ally Einbinder, Program Assistant
Phone: (413) 585-4678
E-mail: aeinbind@smith.edu
Ally Einbinder arrived at Smith in 2006 after a childhood spent in Albany, New York. While at Smith, Ally was active in several student organizations, including Students for Social Justice and Institutional Change and VOX: Voices for Choice. During the fall semester of her junior year, Ally studied abroad in the Netherlands through a program offered by the School for International Training with a focus on gender and sexuality. She graduated from Smith magna cum laude in May 2010 with a B.A. in the study of women and gender and sociology, and was the recipient of the Wahrsager Scholarship in sociology. Shortly after graduating, Ally moved to Florence, Mass., with first-year roommate Sam Chaplin '10. She began her position as program assistant for the Center for Work & Life in July 2010.
Steering Committee
Maureen A. Mahoney, Dean of the College
Sue Briggs, Program Administrator, Office of the Dean of the College
Julie Ohotnicky, Dean of Students
Jennifer Walters, Dean of Religious Life
Stacie Hagenbaugh, Director, Career Development Office
Riché J. Daniel Barnes, Assistant Professor, Afro-American Studies
Barbara Brehm-Curtis, Professor, Exercise and Sports Studies
Floyd Cheung, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature
