Current Fellows

Maya Scherer (2011 Fellow)
Maya graduated from Wesleyan University in 2005 with a BA in Sociology. Following graduation she lived and worked in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Fundación para Estudios e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM). At FEIM she was program assistant on a Ford Foundation project and helped to organize regional dialogues on women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. Upon returning to the US in 2008, Maya worked as the Community Education and Outreach Coordinator at the Violence Intervention Program, Inc. (VIP), a Latina domestic violence organization in East Harlem, the South Bronx and Queens. At VIP she was responsible for building a program of promotoras modeled on the community health education she saw in Latin America. Maya’s primary interest is in the intersection between gender, health and immigration. In the future she would like to work on integrating global perspectives on sexual and reproductive health and gender based violence with program development in the Latino community.

Elizabeth Ortiz (2010 Fellow)

Lyz graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from Wesleyan University in 2007. While in college, Lyz spent her summers organizing with a local labor union in New York City. She also interned with Planned Parenthood and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. After college Lyz organized low-wage immigrant women workers in Baltimore, and then moved on to work with immigrant survivors of domestic violence in Washington D.C.. Lyz would like to continue to organize in the Latino community to address gender-based violence and immigrant health disparities.

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