2026-2027 WAPUSH Leaders

Geneva Williams

Director of Communications & Co-director of the WAPUSH Oral History Project

Geneva Williams is a recent graduate from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where she majored in Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies. She is currently a graduate student at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Geneva is passionate about social justice advocacy, civic action, and K-16 education, and is interested in pursuing fields of higher education and public service. Geneva oversees all communications for the WAPUSH campaign and is a leader of the WAPUSH Oral Interview Project where she ensures proper documentation for the nearly 50 interviews that have been conducted so far. Geneva has been involved in the WAPUSH campaign since the project began.

Alondra Flores

High School Student Leader & Liaison to the National Women’s History Alliance

Alondra Flores is a a high school student at Sacred Heart Preparatory in California. She has been a leader with the WAPUSH campaign for several years and will oversee a wide variety of WAPUSH projects during the 2026-2027 school year. Alondra’s love for reading and history in second grade ignited her passion for women’s history and service. Alondra was a student in the inaugural WAPUSH class taught by Serene Williams. Her passion for the pursuit of women’s equality has continued to grow as a leader of the Women’s Group on her high school campus and a co-founder of the National Women’s History Alliance Youth Advisory Board. In November 2025, Alondra presented about the WAPUSH campaign at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in Puerto Rico.

Hannah Cevasco

University Outreach

Hannah Cevasco studied Computational Biology and Global Health at Yale and is now a PhD student at MIT. She loves women’s history and reading historical fiction books. Hannah was a student in one of the earliest WAPUSH pilot course taught by Kristen Kelly and Serene Williams. Her work on behalf of the WAPUSH campaign was recently filmed for a documentary by the Ratcliffe Institute at Harvard.

Allison Mu

Curriculum Writer

Allison Mu is a senior at Sacred Heart Preparatory in California. She took both AP U.S. History and AP Comparative Government and Politics courses taught by Serene Williams and became deeply fascinated by women’s history (and the lack of it). She is passionate about exploring women’s roles and presence across different cultures and periods of history. Allison is the lead developer of Women in AP Comparative Government and Politics, creating materials and advocating for increased women’s participation and representation in the study of political systems in AP Comp Gov.

Madison Verner

Co-director of the WAPUSH Oral History Project

Madison Verner is majoring in Political Science, Pure Mathematics, and Psychology with a minor in Child Studies and Human Development at Tufts University. Her passion is education, with an interest in teaching mathematics at the college level. Her research focuses on applications of mathematics concepts, such as graph theory, in the social sciences.

Girl Scout Troop 61981

Cadette Girl Scout Troop 61981 earned their Silver Award by doing education advocacy and outreach through emailing high schools for letters of support for the WAPUSH campaign. The troop has presented their work at the 2025 California Council of Social Studies Conference and the 2026 Western Association of Women Historians Conference.

Annabelle Williams

Student Advisor, Coined the term “WAPUSH”

Annabelle Williams is an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln studying food chemistry. For the past four years, she has been a student advisor to the WAPUSH campaign. Annabelle frequently works on website development as a student advisor and creates visuals for the WAPUSH curriculum. Annabelle has been involved in the campaign for an AP Women’s U.S. History course from its conception and coined the term “WAPUSH”.

Anna Perone

Writing and Conference Presentations

Anna Perone is a junior at Sacred Heart Preparatory (SHP) High School. She is a student leader in the SHP Women’s Group and is interested in music, international studies, and linguistics. Last year, she presented at the California Conference of Social Studies about her work on the Sharing Stories project for the University of Houston, where she co-wrote a biography about Betsy McCreight. She is currently enrolled in the WAPUSH pilot course taught by Serene Williams.

Ela Viswanathan

Social Media Projects partnership with the National Women’s History Alliance

Ela Viswanathan is a senior at Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, California. For the 2026–2027 school year, Ela is also creating the “Women of World History” series for the National Women’s History Alliance. The series will highlight influential women leaders from different parts of the world and share their stories through social media. Ela is currently enrolled in AP World History, taught by Kristen Kelly, one of WAPUSH’s founding teachers.

Claire Chivens

WAPUSH Intern

Claire Chivens is a student at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor Michigan. She is interested in the fields of history and political science, and is excited to pursue further learning about both in college. She is especially passionate about hearing history from voices that are often not heard. With the support of Geneva Williams, she is contributing to the WAPUSH Oral Interview Project with the specific focus of indigenous and non-mainland American history.

Madeline Flournoy

WAPUSH Wednesday

Madeline Flournoy is a senior at Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia. She is passionate about gender equality and its application to public policy and education. Compelled by this passion, she founded Women in Sports, a club at her school that aims to build community, empower young girls in sports, and raise awareness of both the history and future of women in sports. More recently, she has worked to contribute to the WAPUSH campaign in various capacities. In college, she plans to major in English or Political Science and minor in Women & Gender Studies.