Tzeitel Degiovanni
MSc Gender, Media and Culture, Class of 2020
Name: Tzeitel Degiovanni
Programme and year: MSc Gender, Media and Culture 2020
What are you currently doing and where?
Four days a week I’m a Senior Consultant in the Global Workforce Consulting team at Deloitte UK. On my 5th day, I’m a research volunteer and workplaces programme consultant at Everyone’s Invited: a charity on a mission to expose and eradicate rape culture.
How do you use what you learned at LSE Gender in your current role?
I support clients in delivering inclusive and representative practices and solutions for their complex and diverse workforces. Internally, I’m the Co-Relationship Manager for the Gender Balance Network’s charity partner - the Young Women’s Trust - ensuring that our corporate partnership supports the mission of creating equal employment opportunities for women across the UK. I also sit on the Executive Committee of the Network, setting the strategy for achieving the firm’s own gender equality goals. Everyday, I apply the intersectional understanding of structural inequality that I learnt at LSE Gender to my small corner of the world, trying to make it a little better.
At Everyone’s Invited, I apply my understanding of misogyny and how it manifests, is maintained and perpetuated to support sexual violence prevention and intervention efforts within schools, policy and workplaces.
What advice do you have for current and/or prospective LSE Gender students?
If I could go back and learn everything all over again (and more!) I would - so enjoy it, read as much as you can, attend every seminar and soak it all in. After you graduate, try to align your career with your passion and expertise, but also know there are many routes to effecting change. Every industry and workplace needs people who understand gender, race, class and other forms of inequality, so remember this degree will help you in anything and everything you do.