Gender and Policy Center

A weeklong residential program to bring undergraduate students together with women leaders in politics and business just concluded. See who they met and what they learned.

Schar School junior Minh-Dy Pham and senior Kalkidan Zewdu received the Partnership for Public Service Award, recognizing young leaders in federal government.

The Schar School’s Bonnie Stabile is headed to the White House.

Thanks to her efforts in leading the Patriot Period Project and other ambitious initiatives, Shafuq Naseem is this year’s Gender and Policy Center Leadership Award winner. “Our mission is to address menstrual equity and period poverty on Mason's campuses.”

A panel discussion co-sponsored by the Schar School and Ms. Magazine tackles a particularly thorny subject—two of them actually: Attacks on abortion and democracy.

A discussion among practitioners in Virginia’s criminal justice system about major reforms is long overdue. So we had one.