Monday, March 28, 2016
Revson Foundation Supports Steinem Program to Address Underrepresentation of Women In Media & Technology
When Monica Rozenfeld graduated from Rutgers in 2007, she left with a degree in journalism and mass media and a dream of making it in her field.
What she lacked was confidence – and a confidant.
“I was too nervous to take a journalism job,” said Rozenfeld. “People were saying ‘Print is dead. Nobody is paying.’ There were opportunities I didn’t take.”
Nine years and a few wrong turns later, she is working as an associate editor and giving another Rutgers graduate the sounding board she never had through the university’s new Gloria Steinem Media Mentoring Program.
The program was launched in September by Rutgers’ Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL) and the School of Communication and Information (SCI) in conjunction with the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies. The proposed Steinem chair will focus on the creative and complex ways information technology and new media are reshaping culture and power relationships. Fundraisers are optimistic they will reach $3.5M goal to finance this position and recruit someone to fill it by the 2016-17 academic year. . .