Gwyneth Murphy (SFS’23, SSP’24), a double Hoya from Great Falls, Virginia, will graduate in May 2024 with a master’s from the Security Studies Program and a concentration in terrorism and substate violence. In her five years at Georgetown, Murphy has worked for multiple government agencies and made change on-campus by helping found the Disability Culture Center (DCC).
The DCC opened in 2023, and it is the first of its kind at a Catholic or Jesuit university. The Center, located in the Office of Student Equity and Inclusion’s newly renovated space on the ground floor of New South, aims to “decrease disability stigma, increase community and belonging, [and] celebrate disability arts and history as a whole,” Murphy says.
As Murphy looks ahead to her career consulting on national security and defense strategic planning at Deloitte, she will take a crucial lesson from the SFS with her. “My experience in the SFS has taught me that you can do so much more with your life than just your job or just your classes and that you should so you can be fully fulfilled and fully balanced,” she says.