I had the opportunity to interview our teaching assistant for the Fall 2024 Feminist Blogging class, Emmy Reagan. She is a former blogger and student of the Feminist Blog class. With Feminist Blogging becoming one of her favorite classes while she was in it, it was only right for her to become the teaching assistant. When asked why she chose to take part in the class as an assistant, she explained how she had not considered herself a good writer before taking the class. She continued by telling me that the class set her up to write passionately about topics that interested her, and this is what she wanted to pass on to the next group of bloggers. She believes being interested in what you are doing is a major key to any activity, but especially blogging.
As a Communications major with a double minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), as well as Sports Communication she seeks to find the gap between the two and work to bring them into one. Growing up in a small town, she noticed how closed off she may be to things in an outside world. When choosing classes as a first-year student, she knew she wanted to learn more about things that she did not have the opportunity to because of the area she lived in. She chose a new WGSS introduction class as one of the first classes on her schedule. This set her up to choose the minor because she instantly knew this was what she wanted to study. To keep her options open, and with her lifelong passion for sports, she decided to add on a sports communication minor as well. She was lucky enough to have an internship with the JMU Men’s Baseball team last semester where she got to meet and learn from many people outside the students and faculty on JMU’s campus. She said this was a great opportunity and was a great joy as she has always been a fan of baseball since she was younger.
Emmy spends much of her time overseeing the resident advisors (RA) on campus. She got this opportunity by spending two years as a RA in the dorm rooms on campus and pushed her passion to the next level by helping those who do the job now. Emmy says that her favorite part about helping those she oversees is the fact that she understands how difficult it can be to work in such a niche job and the struggles and benefits that come with it. Some of her best friends have been made through this job and she hopes she can pass that on to the next group. If you cannot tell yet, she is very involved in the James Madison community and loves to help others with the knowledge she has.
Her accolades do not stop there. She is currently the president of an organization on campus, Days for Girls’. They collaborate with other local organizations and fundraise money to give women in underprivileged communities access to Period Kits across the globe. With the money they raise, they help the folks who sew Period Kits for women to get the materials necessary and ship them to those in need.
As I said before, Emmy is an amazing teaching assistant who is always there to help the students in the class. And although I have only just met her within the last month, I can tell she is also someone who cares about making changes in the community and the world.
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