Susan L. Allen, Ph.D., Director of Nonviolence Education

Susan Allen has been with the Women's Center since 1993, serving as assistant director and editor of the newsletter, Women's  Circle, before being appointed to the director's position in 1998. She holds a doctorate in media anthropology from the University  of Kansas (1980) and published the first textbook in the new field combining anthropology and journalism (Media Anthropology: Informing Global Citizens, Bergin & Garvey) in 1994.

Allen worked as a Research Intern at the East-West Center in Honolulu, as a legislative correspondent in Washington, D.C. for Senator Nancy Kassebaum, as a researcher in Japan, and in several positions at KSU before joining the Center.

Other work interests include women's organizations and cooperatives, power dynamics, and justice issues. She continues  to advocate  for more context and perspective in the popular media in various ways. 

Mary Stolz in Colorado

Kelly Maze, past president of W.A.R.,
and twin sister Kinda Maze

Lindsay Beavers
Women's Center Engineer

Layla El-Chami
Women's Center Intern