Group of Pace University Dyson College of Arts and Sciences students in the Womens Leadership Initiative at the Secret and Seneca Women gathering at the New York Stock Exchange
Women's Leadership Initiative

Meet the Leadership

Please send all requests for application materials to wliapplications@pace.edu.

Co-Directors

Emily Bent, PhD (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research explores how girl-activists engage in social justice movements within transnational contexts. Over the last fifteen years, she has conducted fieldwork with more than 100 girl-activists engaged in the girls’ rights movement at the United Nations.

Marcella Szablewicz, PhD (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies. Her research focuses on youth and digital media, with a dual emphasis on moral panics about new technology and the ways that digital media can empower or exclude marginalized voices. Szablewicz conducts fieldwork in China, where she lived for a number of years.

Emily Bent

Emily Bent

Associate Professor
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
Women and Gender Studies
(212) 346-1718
ebent@pace.edu
NYC
Marcella Szablewicz

Marcella Szablewicz

Associate Professor
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
Communication and Media Studies
(212) 346-1632
mszablewicz@pace.edu
NYC

Graduate Student Leader

Pace University Womens Leadership Initiative Graduate Student Leader Lisa Sholomon

Lisa Sholomon

Lisa Sholomon, MA (she/her) is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology (Healthcare Emphasis). As a graduate of a women's college (Barnard College, Columbia University) and the Program Coordinator of the Sex Education Initiative (Teachers College, Columbia University), Lisa is committed to advancing gender equity and empowering disenfranchised individuals through the power of sexual and reproductive health literacy and holistic identity development. Her research interests include the role of child-free aunts and uncles in childrearing practices, matrescence and feminism and the interplay between identity formation and stigma for single mothers, chronically ill individuals, and immigrants as they encounter reproductive decisions and crises of psychosocial development.