Board of Directors

The Remedial Herstory Project's Board of Directors is composed of educational leaders, historians, and women's advocates from around the world.

Officers
Strategic Planning Committee
Marketing Committee
Education Committee

Kelsie Eckert, M.Ed

President

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Kelsie (she/her) is an award-winning history teacher and the founder and President of the Remedial Herstory Project. She has taught high school social studies for the better part of a decade and is now the Coordinator of Social Studies Education at Plymouth State University. She was the 2020 Gilder Lehrman NH Teacher of the year and 2019 Nominee, a 2016 Normandy Scholar, the 2015 NH National History Day Teacher of the Year, and serves as President of the NH Council for Social Studies (NHCSS). She earned a Masters in Social Studies Education and was the recipient of several academic awards including Graduate Assistant of the Year, and later Outstanding Graduate Alumni Award.

Eckert is a member of the following institutions:

Brooke Sullivan

Treasurer

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Brooke (she/her) is a founder of the Remedial Herstory Project and a non-profit champion rallying cause and supporting several local and national charities through volunteering to board memberships. She has spent her career work with and for strong women to help them elevate in their careers and professional lives as a Recruiter for several global and local NH-based organizations.

As a recruiter, her job is to investigate people and find what makes them tick as well as learn all about their history and place of origin, she is passionate about women in politics and helping pull out a seat for other women to sit at the board room table.

Raised in Connecticut and attended college at Plymouth State University where she received her bachelor's in English secondary education and minor in communications.
Brooke currently lives in Northern NH with her dog Birdie, partner Sully, and two boys.

Brooke is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, SHRM, CPRW, Lean Human Capital Institute, Big Brother Big Sisters, and Young Ladies of the Pease Public Library.

Michelle Stonis, MA

Secretary

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Specializing in United States history and United States women's history, Michelle Stonis (she/her) is a Full-Time Tenure-Track Instructor of History at Glendale Community College in the Greater Los Angeles region. She is the founding Co-Director of GCC's Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium. As receiving a two-year grant, this partnership bridges curriculum between the History and Journalism Departments as students are supported in reporting on the critical issues involving gender around the world. Stonis's own research focuses on the negotiated gender roles of 19th-century missionary wives in the Sandwich Islands, a topic that earned her Master's thesis the Best Thesis in the College of Liberal Arts award. Stonis consults in the entertainment industry on feminist issues surrounding body image, intersectionality, and representation. In addition to being an invited speaker to the Walt Disney Animation Studios several times, she has consulted on an unnamed animated feature film that is set to be released in Winter 2022. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, their three daughters, and her newfound fascination playing Call of Duty: World War II as a Rosie the Riveter. You can find her work at www.michellestonis.com and connect on Instagram at professor.stonis.

Dr. Barbara Tischler

Board Chair

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Dr. Barbara Tischler (she/her) is a professor of history and teacher education. She has her MA and PhD from Columbia University and received the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in History, from Columbia University. She is currently a student-teacher supervisor for Hunter College in New York. Her major publications include:
--Muhammad Ali: A Man of Many Voices (Taylor and Francis, 2015)
--Sights on the Sixties, (Rutgers, 1992)
--An American Music: The Search for an American Musical Identity, (Oxford,1986)
--Editor, Perspectives on the Sixties Series for Rutgers University Press, seven volumes published

Brooke Sullivan

Committee Chair

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Jenna Koloski, ML

Director

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Jenna Koloski (she/her) is a founder of the Remedial Herstory Project and has been the Community and Policy Manager of the Vermont Council on Rural Development (VCRD) since January 2015, supporting and coordinating statewide policy facilitation as well as leading community level prioritization and action processes. Jenna also serves as President of the Vermont Community Development Association. Prior to her work at VCRD, Jenna was the Child Nutrition Manager at Hunger Free Vermont, coordinating community-driven solutions to hunger in Vermont towns and facilitating the Addison County Hunger Council, a cross-sectoral group of County leaders committed to addressing hunger in the region. Jenna studied at McGill University before moving to Vermont to pursue her Master's Degree at Vermont Law School where she studied environmental and agricultural law and policy. Jenna has extensive training and experience in meeting facilitation, results based accountability, strategies and skills to enhance adult learning, dispute resolution, and effective communication. In 2019, she was named one of Vermont Business Magazine's 40 under 40 Rising Stars. Jenna lives in Huntington Vermont with her husband, daughter, and black lab where she serves on the Conservation Commission and enjoys trail running, cooking delicious local VT food, mountain biking, and exploring the Green Mountains with her family.

Kitty Kiefer

Director

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Kitty Kiefer (she/her) is a devoted advocate, community educator, and leader in the movement to end
gender-based violence. She began as a volunteer advocate at one of New Hampshire’s crisis centers.
While pursuing her education, she also completed an internship at the crisis center. She attended
Marlboro College in Vermont where she earned her bachelor’s in political theory and writing with a Plan
of Concentration entitled Emancipation in Translation: Language, Power, and Empowerment. Upon
completing her degree, she accepted a position as Sexual Assault Services Advocate at a local crisis
center. Shortly afterward she was promoted to Education and Outreach Coordinator; in this position she
provided support and advocacy for survivors of sexual and domestic violence, coordinated the volunteer
training program, and developed and facilitated prevention and education programs for students of all
ages, the local community college, and adult professional and community groups. Whether discussing
consent and gender stereotypes with high school students or singing about conflict resolution with
kindergarteners, violence prevention was always an area of passion and enthusiasm.
After nearly ten years in the non-profit crisis center, she accepted the position of College Consortium
Coordinator at the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of Victim/Witness Assistance. In this role,
she supports New Hampshire campuses in enhancing their response to sexual and interpersonal
violence. This support comes in the form of coordinating the NH Campus Consortium Against Sexual and
Interpersonal Violence; providing technical assistance, resources, and training opportunities;
encouraging cross-training and collaboration with local crisis centers and other off-campus services; and
representing the Consortium on relevant state-wide committees and initiatives.
She lives in the Lakes Region with her family. In the summer, she enjoys camping, taking leisurely hikes,
and reading by the lake. In recent years, she has volunteered with Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, a
charity fashion show to raise awareness of human trafficking, and Lakes Region Dancing with the Stars.
She co-leads a Girl Scout Troop with whom she gets to share her commitment to empowering women
and girls and giving back to the community.

Rachel Lee Perez

Director

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Rachel Lee Perez (she/her) is the founder of the podcast #HashtagHistory and has been a long-time History nerd with a BA in history from Columbia College.

When Rachel is not reading or writing (Psst! Check Rachel out on Amazon to see her two published novels!), her favorite things to do are watch documentaries, listen to true crime podcasts, or tour museums.

Dr. Chloe Gardner

Committee Chair

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Chloë Gardner (she/her) is a PhD student in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She also holds an MA and a MsC in Religious Studies. Her research focuses on gender, nationalism and interreligious relation in South Asia, especially India.

In 2020, she started her own blog “Herstory Revisited” to share the stories of women who have been left out of traditional tellings of history. From learning about Cleopatra as a young girl, to doing her high school presentation on Anne Boleyn, to somehow crowbarring gender into every university essay, Chloë credits history’s sheroes with guiding and inspiring her throughout her life.

Chloë was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland and has also worked in tourism there for over 6 years sharing the history of her beloved city with visitors from around the world.

When not writing or reading, she can be found playing piano or rewatching her favourite sitcoms for the millionth time. She is also in the top 0.005% of Taylor Swift fans, according to Spotify Unwrapped.

She is so honoured to be a part of this project and to work alongside such amazing and inspiring women to help put women back on the curriculum

Dr. Gutierrez-Romine

Director

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Dr. Alicia Gutierrez-Romine (she/her) is an assistant professor of history at La Sierra University. She earned her doctorate degree in history from the University of Southern California in 2016 and specializes in the American west, gender and sexuality, and race and ethnicity. Her first book, From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969, was just published by the University of Nebraska Press. Her next project explores the life and experiences of Dr. Edna Griffin, a civil rights activist and the first black woman physician in Pasadena, California.

Matthew Cerjak

Committee Member

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Hannah McNulty

Committee Member

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Dr. Bridget Erlandson

Committee Chair

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Dr. Valerie Moyer

Director

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Dr. Pamela Scully

Director

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Pamela Scully is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Professor of African Studies, and Advisor to the Provost at Emory University. She has her Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan.
Her research interests focus on comparative women's and gender history. Her latest book is Writing Transnational History co-authored with Professor Fiona Paisley (Bloomsbury Academic UK 2019). Other books include Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Ohio University Press, 2016); Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: a Ghost Story and a Biography, co-authored with Clifton Crais (Princeton, 2009, 2010); Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World (Duke University Press 2005), co-edited with Diana Paton, and Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853 (Heinemann, 1997). She is also the author of the AHA pamphlet, Race and Ethnicity in Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective (2006), and many articles and chapters.
Professor Scully is president-elect of the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities, and Chair of the Committee on Gender Equity of the American Historical Association, a member of the editorial board of the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women’s History and is on the board of The Journal of Southern African Studies. She is co-convener of the Coursera MOOC course Understanding Violence and the Journeys to Education Teach-Out, focusing on diverse experiences of education, including that of First-Generation students. She served as the Deputy Editor of the Women’s History Review and as Treasurer and Secretary of the International Federation for Research in Women's History.

Dr. Victoria Plutshack

Director

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Victoria Plutshack is a senior policy associate at Duke’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability working with the Duke University James E. Rogers Energy Access Project. Victoria is a qualitative social scientist, whose prior research includes analysis of off-grid solar business models in India and interviews to explore the political economy of energy transitions. At Duke her work focuses on technology policy questions around the scale up of mini-grid solutions, public financing in the off-grid space, and how gender plays a role in technology change. She also works to bridge the gap between practitioner experience and researcher knowledge in the energy access space.
Her recent work includes the use of contemporary and historical case studies and recent student projects on the role of gender in appliance interventions. She is currently leading a project on the Political Economy of Gender Mainstreaming in Energy Access.
Victoria holds a Ph.D. in Land Economy and a M.Phil. in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge. She holds a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago.