Specialization

Gender and Sexualities and Productive and Reproductive Labors

Education

2016-2020  | BA – Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies –
Cleveland State University, Ohio 

2021-2023  | MA – Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies- University of
Cincinnati, Ohio

Bio

Carissa (she/her) is a graduate student in the Feminist Studies Department at University of California, Santa Barbara. While obtaining her MA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, she served as the President of the WGSS Graduate Student Organization and the Graduate Student Representative for the WGSS Graduate Committee for the department.

Research

Carissa’s MA project focused on how sex workers’ rights activists organize around
uncompensated emotional labor and examining their organizing efforts through a
Marxist Feminist lens.
Her research interests include: sex workers’ rights, labor rights, social movements, and
Marxist Feminism.