Research Colloquium 2026

12 PM – 12:10 PM (15 min)

Introduction by G⁺JI Team

12:10 – 1:35 PM (85 min)

Moderated by Jill Morrison (she/her), Director, Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa Program; Director, Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship; Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Stevie Glaberson (she/her), Director of Research & Advocacy, Center on Privacy & Technology, Georgetown University Law Center, G⁺JI Fellow ‘26 | Family Policing Reproduction

Mariana DeHoyos (she/her), Ph.D Candidate, Community Psychology, University of Virginia | Structural Reproductive Coercion: Measuring Legal Entrapment as a Racialized, Population-Level Exposure

Rebecca Reingold (she/her), Associate Director and Paulina Macías Ortega (she/her), Teaching Assistant, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center | Between Protection and Autonomy: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Approaches to Abortion Access for Young People

Grace Lee (she/her), Senior Research Assistant, Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, George Washington University | “Regardless of Cause”: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Abortion Care Obligations in Highly Restrictive Abortion Regimes

1:35 – 1:45 PM (10 min)

1:45 – 3:20 PM (95 min)

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf (she/her), Professor of Anthropology, Georgetown University in Qatar | Sexual Violence in Sudan’s Forgotten War (video presentation)

Belquis Ahmadi (she/her), Human Rights Researcher, Georgetown University Law Center Alumni | Women’s Rights to Justice in Afghanistan

Juliet Mamawa Kaikai (she/her), Research Assistant, LLM ‘26, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center | In Her Defense: An Anti-Carceral Response to Women Who Kill their Abusers in Sierra Leone

Erin Ann Kilbride (she/her), Adjunct Professor, Women’s & Gender Studies Program, Georgetown University, G⁺JI Fellow ‘25 | Investigating How Webcam Platforms Disrupt Labor Organizing, Outsource Criminalization, and Evade Accountability

Tracy Denise Wright (she/her), Ph.D Candidate, Organizational Leadership, University of Maryland Eastern Shore | Leading Through Uncertainty: Adaptive Leadership, Psychological Safety, and Organizational Climate in Sexual Assault Advocacy Coalitions

3:20 – 3:40 PM (20 min)

3:40 – 5:15 PM (95 min)

Moderated by Desh Girod (he/him), Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Arts and Sciences; Affiliate, Conflict Resolution Program and Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice, Georgetown University

Emily C. Francomano (she/her), Professor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese; Director of the Global and Comparative Literature Program, Georgetown University | Old Chestnuts and Red Pills, or The Medievalism of the Manosphere

Ayana Best (she/her), Assistant Professor of Political Science, Howard University | Boundaries of Belonging: How Police Contact Impacts Black Women’s Perceptions of Citizenship

Ashley C.J. Daniels (she/her), Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of the District of Columbia | Under Pressure: Exploring How Institutional and Sociopolitical Contexts Influence Voter Engagement and Education

Milo Koot (he/him, they/them, They/He), Ph.D Candidate, Dept. of Philosophy, Georgetown University | Denying the Q in LGBTQ – When Trans* Migrant Gender Claims are Deemed (In)Coherent

Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano (she/her), Adjunct Professor, Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA); Women and Gender Studies Program, Georgetown University | Rural Women: Justice and Representation in the Food System

5:15 PM – 6:15 PM