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Research Colloquium 2026

The Gender+ Justice Initiative presents its eighth Research Colloquium!

Thursday, October 8, 2026 | 12:00 PM – 6:15 PM – Reception after 5:15 PM | Location: Maria & Alberto De La Cruz Art Gallery, 3535 Prospect St NW, Washington, DC 20007 | Register

We are delighted to invite you to our Annual Research Colloquium, now in its eighth year. Join faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from across Georgetown and neighboring universities for a day of interdisciplinary dialogue on gender, racial, and economic justice.

Program

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)

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)

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


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