Student Organizations
Below is a sampling of current offerings at Northeastern that relate to or revolve around Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. For a full list of the club offerings, click here.
The Feminist Student Organization
The Feminist Student Organization (FSO) is designed to encourage the empowerment of women and the LGBTQ community on campus. We strive to create an equitable and positive university environment for all students by creating awareness of women’s, gender and sexuality issues through various activities.
Big Sister Boston
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston ignites girls’ passion and power to succeed through positive mentoring relationships with women and enrichment programs that support girls’ healthy development. Big Sister Boston Collegiate Chapter empowers students to become leaders at their colleges and universities facilitating on-campus engagement opportunities, planning fundraising and recruitment events, and by discussing content that relates to women and girls’ interests.
Northeastern University American Medical Women’s Association
The American Medical Women’s Association is an organization which functions at the local, national, and international level to advance women in medicine and improve women’s health.
Northeastern University Science Club for Girls
Our mission is to increase the self confidence and science literacy of K-12th grade girls belonging to groups that are underrepresented in the sciences, through free, after school programs that provide experiential learning, mentorship, and leadership opportunities.
Northeastern University Women in Technology
A special interest group that supports women who study or are interested in Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University.
NU Pride
NU Pride is an community and safe space for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Asexual, and others (LGBTQA+) on the Northeastern Campus. Events are geared towards education and connection between members of the spectrum of sexual and gender orientation expression. This alliance empowers all members of the LGBTQA+ community and their allies to thrive as individuals and to meet other students within the community.
NU SHARE (Sexual Health, Advocacy, Resources, and Education)
NU SHARE is a Planned Parenthood affiliated student organization that advocates for and educates about reproductive and sexual health. SHARE discusses and organizes around many topics including HIV/STI prevention and testing, birth control options and access, sexual assault awareness, sexuality and gender identity, and comprehensive pregnancy options.
Progressive Student Alliance
The Progressive Student Alliance is a group dedicated to promoting social justice at Northeastern University and its surrounding community. Through education and direct action we strive to bring about sustainable and fair change.
The Queer Caucus (email inquiries)
The Northeastern University School of Law Queer Caucus (QC) is a student-run organization dedicated to supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, gender non-conforming, non-binary, asexual, genderqueer, intersex, pansexual, and questioning students, staff, and faculty at NUSL while mobilizing around issues of injustice and oppression. Queer Caucus seeks to maintain Northeastern University’s position as the “queerest law school in the nation.”
Sexual Assault Response Coalition
A student group dedicated to bringing better, survivor-centered resources to campus to ensure the complete safety and health of all Northeastern students. SARC seeks to make Northeastern University a safer space for survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence by defending and advocating for their rights.
Society of Women Engineers
Mission: “The Society of Women Engineers stimulates women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expands the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in the quality of life, and demonstrates the value of diversity.”
Strong Women, Strong Girls
Strong Women Strong Girls at Northeastern University is a group of college women committed to supporting positive social change by working to create cycles of mutual empowerment for girls and women. Through mentoring relationships and after-school programs, we hope to build leadership skills and self-confidence in young girls. SWSG strives to support the professional and personal growth of our college women.
The Women’s Law Caucus (email inquiries)
The Women’s Law Caucus (WLC) is a group at NUSL focused on creating a support system that empowers women in the legal profession. Men are also encouraged to join this group and are welcome at our meetings, events and discussions.
Women In Music is the industry’s leading 501(c)3 non-profit working toward gender equity in music. Founded in 1985, WIM now encompasses chapters across the globe, from LA to India! More at womeninmusic.org.
The Interdisciplinary Women’s Council
The Northeastern University Interdisciplinary Women’s Collaborative, or the IWC for short, is the first body on the Northeastern campus that seeks to bring together women and women’s organizations on campus to facilitate the communication and promotion of women’s empowerment initiatives and events on campus. The organization, at its core, is a means for individuals and clubs on campus to be exposed to the resources, the knowledge, events, and practices that have helped propel some of the campus’s largest women’s organizations to the success we see from them today.