Amplifying Voices.
Dr. Jennifer Ring
Jennifer Ring is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. She received her Bachelor’s degree from UCLA and her Masters and Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Ring has been a visiting professor at Berkeley, Stanford, and Columbia University. She has published books and articles in Political Theory, Feminist Theory, and Identity Politics in the U.S. Her two most recent books, about women and baseball, have received widespread public attention.
Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball (University of Illinois Press, 2009) is required reading for many university courses in Gender Studies, Baseball History and Culture, Sports Sociology, American Studies, and American Popular Culture.
A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball, (University of Nebraska Press, 2015), is a collection of in-depth interviews with the starting lineup of the 2010 USA Baseball Women’s National Team. It was named Best Sports Book of 2015 by The Boston Globe, one of the three Best Baseball Books of 2015 by The Christian Science Monitor and The Daily Beast, was reviewed in Sports Illustrated, and listed as one of the Fifty Greatest Baseball Books of All Time in The Huntington Post. The transcripts and original audio recordings for the women interviewed in A Game of Their Own are archived in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
Trisden Shaw
Trisden Shaw is a political educator and community organizer who seeks to amplify the voices of those who traditionally have been silenced. As a campus organizer, Trisden orchestrated a number of social actions seeking to improve the conditions of marginalized students on campus and in the community. From Marches and Sit-ins to Teach-ins and podcasts Trisden actively seeks creative ways to build knowledge and power in the Black community.
He is a recent graduate of UCLA’s African American Studies Master’s Program. Trisden received his Bachelor’s at the University of Nevada, Reno where he served as a McNair Scholar and studied Political Science. This experience at University of Nevada is at the heart of what inspired this project.
Trisden is 1/2 of Brewin Black, a podcast that fuses Black popular culture with an academic lens to discuss a variety of issues in the Black community. Trisden currently works as a Programs and Curriculum Coach for the Social Justice Learning Institute where he works directly with young men of color in Los Angeles Unified School District providing social, emotional, and academic support through the Urban Scholars program.
Reece Gibb
Reece Gibb is an alumni of the University of Nevada, with a B.A. in Political Science and History, and an M.A. in Political Science. His passion for research and historical inquiry began early in his undergrad, where he gravitated towards and studied early American history. He also took interest in queer studies, culminating in the development of his undergraduate history thesis, which studied gender transgression in 19th century America.
During his time as a graduate student, Reece continued to study the experiences of marginalized communities in American historical and political eras. He channeled that passion into writing his master's thesis on the diffusion of anti-LGBTQ policies throughout states since landmark Supreme Court decisions on gay rights.
Currently working as a technical writer, his free time is spent feeding his unhealthy obsession with politics, learning languages, and writing.