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Author: Emily Sernaker

Emily Sernaker is a Ms. contributor and a staff writer for the International Rescue Committee. Her poetry, articles and reviews have appeared in The Sun, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney's, The Rumpus and more. She is a 2019 Lincoln City Fellowship recipient in poetry.
  • Arts & Entertainment

The Ms. Q&A: These Teen Girl Scientists Want to Ask More Questions—and Close the STEM Gender Gap

Emily Sernaker

We caught up with three Regeneron Science Talent competition semi-finalists Natalia Orlovsky, Kavya Kopparapu and Nitya Parthasarathy—and talked curiousity, diversity and good friends.

  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Herstory

No More Masks: Celebrating a Landmark Anthology of Women’s Poetry 45 Years Later

Emily Sernaker

In 1971, Goucher College professor Florence Howe and her student Ellen Bass gave themselves a prompt: Could they, solely from memory, recite poems by women about women’s lives?

  • Arts & Entertainment

Five Female Poets on Protest and Resistance

Emily Sernaker

These poets cover North Korean missal taunts, the water crisis in Flint, the inadequacy of the U.S. government’s apology to Native Americans, children affected by school shootings and economic divides in their poems that radiate defiance and vision.

  • Arts & Entertainment

The Ms. Q&A: Poet Vievee Francis Knows the Power of Her Narrative

Emily Sernaker

“Those of us who have gone unheard must speak. I do not seek permission. I want my differences accepted without the accompanying reduction of racism, or the pretense of ignorance. Hell, I want my differences lauded.”

  • Arts & Entertainment

The Ms. Q&A: How Poet Marwa Helal Uses Poetry as Preservation

Emily Sernaker

“I want readers to viscerally feel through my work how deeply I believe our identities are inextricably intertwined and that we have a responsibility to ourselves and each other to work harder and to do better in this life.”

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These Girls Are Proof: Investing in Young Feminists Pays Off

Emily Sernaker

Since 2011, 280 high school girls have participated in HERLead, an innovative program that empowers them to foster change in their communities. We caught up with three of them.

  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Herstory

Honoring Trailblazing Female Firsts in an Age of Resistance

Emily Sernaker

In the heart of the Brooklyn Museum, between Picasso’s “Woman in Gray” and Monet’s rippled river in “Islets at Port-Ville,” landmark women from many fields traded stories on Thursday.

  • Violence & Harassment

The Ms. Q&A: Gloria Steinem on #MeToo and Believing Women After Weinstein

Emily Sernaker

“We who make up the country can act as we want our country to act. We can vote and organize and give money and ask questions and listen to each other.”

  • Justice & Law

Q&A: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jody Williams on What It Takes to Change the World

Emily Sernaker

“I’m often introduced as an example of one person who changed the world. And it irritates me because I did not change the world… Anyone who tells you that they changed the world alone is a megalomaniac on the scale of The Donald.”

  • Herstory

Q&A: Holocaust Survivors on Charlottesville, Silence as Complicity and Preventing History from Repeating Itself

Emily Sernaker

We spoke with two Holocaust survivors—95-year-old Margit Meissner and 75-year-old Louise Lawrence-Israëls—about the lessons we must learn from the past and how we can all fight hate in our own communities.

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