The Tucker Center’s Summer Internship Program for Gender Equity in Sport welcomes two new interns this year. Elizabeth Labedz and Lauren Slagel are already hard at work on several research projects from coding data to developing a literature review as well as other projects that make the Tucker Center productive in ways that garner local and national recognition.

Labedz comes to the TC as a program coordinator from the national non-profit Playworks [link], via an undergrad degree in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Elizabeth says she’s excited to work in the Tucker Center because our research has a profound and direct impact on girls and women who engage in sport and physical activity. Read more about Elizabeth here…

Slagel hales from St. Olaf College, graduating this past May with a double major in biology and exercise science. She too is excited about the opportunity to be a part of the Tucker Center and work on projects that relate to her own passions for health and fitness. Read more about Lauren here…

The Internship Program for Gender Equity in Sport is designed to mentor, educate, and provide a quality research experience to aspiring students who work collaboratively with Tucker Center faculty and graduate students on important research projects. Interns receive a stipend and hands-on experience by participating in a full spectrum of research opportunities. The program benefactors “believe that gender equity in sport can catalyze gender equity in other socioeconomic and political arenas. Supporting the Internship Program allows the Tucker Center to attract the ‘best and the brightest’ students and to mentor them in ways that will enhance their commitment to gender equity through participation in sport and physical activity.”