Spartan Women in Sport: Stacey Johnson, ’80 Public Relations
Stacey Johnson has made it her mission to “speak actively for women.”
Author: Julia Halprin Jackson
Spartan Women in Sport: Marti Malloy, ’10 BS, ’15 MS Mass Communications
As a professional woman athlete, Malloy confronted—and often defied—common stereotypes about gender and sport.
Spartan Women in Sport: Lynn Vidali Gautschi, ’76 Kinesiology, ’77 Teaching Credential
“Setting kids up to be successful is probably one of the greatest feelings in the world, those adults in your life, those coaches that really go unnoticed in the world, they are the ones who have a lot to do with helping kids.”
Spartan Women in Sport: Dana Dormann, ’90 Finance
“I love being able to have an impact on young people in an area where I feel like I have the most expertise. Sport is a great equalizer.”
Spartan Women in Sport: Gay MacLellan, ’83 MA Kinesiology
“To see women perform at high levels, and to hear those women speak and present themselves, I think changes a lot of people’s opinions and outlook on women,” says Gay MacLellan, ’83 MA Kinesiology. Learn how the former fencing champion and pioneering international referee has applied her athletic prowess to life beyond sport.
Spartan Women in Sport: Tracy Hanson, ’93 Kinesiology
Tracy Hanson, ’93 Kinesiology, LPGA golfer, supports athletes who face significant obstacles, including abuse and performance acceptance, in their pursuit of sport.
Spartan Women in Sport: Thomasina Wallace, ’12 Kinesiology
Record-setting gymnast Thomasina Wallace, ’12 Kinesiology, says that “twenty percent [of the sport] is talent and 80 percent is how mentally prepared are you to perform your routines while others are judging you.” Learn how she overcame injuries and defied stereotypes during her career at SJSU.
Spartan Women in Sport: Carolyn Lewis, ’70 Kinesiology
“Small acts of defiance make change,” says Carolyn Lewis, ’70 Kinesiology, Teaching Credential. The four-sport collegiate athlete became a coach and athletics administrator and helped create SJSU’s Gender Equity Plan.
Spartan Women in Sport: Margaret Jenkins, ’25 Education
Margaret Jenkins, ’25 Education, threw discus in the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam as a member of the first ever women’s track and field team representing the United States. Jenkins belongs to a tradition of Spartan woman athletes who have set records on and off the field.
Running Athletics: New SJSU AD Marie Tuite
Tuite is the first woman to hold a permanent position as SJSU athletics director and one of nine woman athletics directors at 128 NCAA Division I Football Subdivision schools nationwide.
Subway Therapy: Matthew Chavez’s Post-It Movement
Chavez tapped into New York’s communal psyche—using an everyday office supply.
Faculty Spotlight: Fritz Yambrach’s Water Vest
One vest can impact an entire community. The hands-free design helps people access potable water and while accomplishing simultaneous tasks.
Community Connector Netta Conyers-Haynes
From SJSU to Facebook, Netta Conyers-Haynes says: “We don’t grow when things are easy. We grow when we face challenges.”
One Washington Square: One Big (Micro)Biome
By breaking down the fundamental elements that make up bacteria, scientists can map out potential links to common health problems.
From the Amazon Rainforest to Silicon Valley, Cells Matter
Ouverney’s year in the Amazon gave him a unique perspective as a microbiologist and a cultural ambassador
Heritage: Raise Your Hand and Spartan Up
An SJSU tradition has taken shape, and it’s the shape of a Spartan.
Dreamers: The Undocumented Student and Immigrant Experience
“There is an undocumented student community out there that could definitely benefit from a lot of the services I obtained.”
Crossing the Borders of Identity and Philosophy
As a young child, Professor Carlos Alberto Sanchez learned to cross geographic and cultural boundaries. As a professor, he says that it is his “responsibility to make sure that philosophy belongs to everyone.” Perhaps learning has no borders.
Faculty Spotlight: A Place of Her Own
“With a lot of the work we do, there’s this tension between the relationship of our bodies and place,” she says. “It’s a female-centered, feminist perspective. Most of our dresses have a large stature. They have a place in the world.”
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