After working together for almost a year, three WSU students and alumni are helping their respective troops navigate through feminism despite never having met each other in person because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
FemScouts began as an initiative to build the feminist toolkit and prepare its members for the world, said Soph Roemer, recent WSU graduate, troop leader and Women*s Center volunteer. The organization operates under the Coalition for Women Students.
Roemer and their co-troop leaders — Acacia Patterson, first-year physics graduate student and community outreach student coordinator for the Women*s Center; and Monipel Babb, first-year food microbiology doctoral student and troop leader — are not experts, but they have knowledge and resources to communicate about feminism and its various topics to members in their troops.