Staff

Director
Susan Castagnetto
Phone: (909) 607-8018
Email:scastagn@scrippscollege.edu

Susan Castagnetto has served as Director since 1999.  She also teaches courses in Gender & Women’s Studies and Philosophy at Scripps College and Pomona College, including Philosophy of Feminism, Feminist Ethics, Feminism and Science, and Women, Crime and Punishment.  She has worked extensively with community-based organizations that address feminist issues, particularly focusing on criminal justice, and has developed partnerships to sponsor projects and events. In 2007-2008, she was a fellow with the Women’s Policy Institute, sponsored by Women’s Foundation of California, working with other fellows to develop and pass state legislation extending the amount of time that parents in prison have to meet requirements for reuniting with their children in foster care.  She organizes a series of creative writing workshops each semester that brings together students at the Claremont Colleges and women incarcerated at the California Institution for Women.  She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Santa Clara and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University.

Spotlight on Staff: Sue Castagnetto, director of the Intercollegiate Feminist Center (IFC) at The Claremont Colleges and teacher of feminist philosophy.
Read more here.

Susan Castagnetto on the Power of Collaboration. For Sue Castagnetto, feminism has a whole new look… Read more here.

Program Assistant
Marney Martin
Phone: (909) 621-8274
Email: mmartin@scrippscollege.edu

Marney joined the Intercollegiate Feminist Center for Teaching, Research and Engagement as program assistant in October 2016. She has been a member of the Claremont Colleges community since 2013, previously serving in the Office of the President and Board of Trustees at Scripps College. Marney is a native of Chicago, IL and is currently living in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. She holds a B.S. in Finance and M.A. in Economics from Eastern Illinois University, as well as an HR certification. She has greater than fifteen years’ experience spearheading and coordinating diversity and inclusion initiatives in the public and private sectors.

IFC STUDENT INTERNS

Chloe Eshagh, Scripps College, ’28 (ceshagh6179@scrippscollege.edu)
Chloe is a sophomore at Scripps College studying public policy with a minor in economics from Los Altos, California. Outside of school, she loves to read, work out, go to concerts, the beach, and hang out with her friends. She’s excited to work with the Intercollegiate Feminist Center and connect with the college community!

India Howerton, Scripps College, ‘29 (ihowerto8592@scrippscollege.edu)
India is a freshman at Scripps College, double-majoring in film studies and English. She is from Costa Mesa, California, and is excited for the community that Scripps College and the IFC will bring. In her free time, she loves reading, filmmaking, and dancing.

Emily Lauletta, Claremont Graduate University (emily.lauletta@cgu.edu)
Emily is a graduate student at Claremont Graduate University, where she is pursuing her PhD in Cultural Studies. She received her MA in Applied Gender Studies from CGU in 2023 and holds a BA in gender and women’s studies from Hollins University. Her research interests include feminist theory and feminist media studies, particularly feminist print media, and zines. In her free time, Emily also writes for BUST, a feminist pop culture magazine, and runs her own independent zine titled Arachne.