Cassandra Voss Legacy

Cassandra Voss (Sept. 18, 1985 -May 21, 2007) was a senior double major in English and Women’s and Gender Studies with an art minor at St. Norbert College. She died in an automobile accident on May 21, 2007. Cassandra was a beloved member of our community whose spirit lives on in a variety of ways. This page is devoted to her and her legacy at St. Norbert.

The Cassandra Voss Center

The Cassandra Voss Center seeks to honor Cassandra and continue her legacy.  The proposed center will house the Women's and Gender Studies discipline, the Joan P. Schaupp Women's Center, the new Men's Center, and other related amenities. For more information, visit the center's website. 

Catherine Orecchia and Cassandra Voss wearing their Women's and Gender Studies tee-shirts at the NWSA conference in Oakland, California.

Cassandra Voss '08

“Doing the Women’s Studies program in London was a fantastic experience. It felt like I learned more there in five weeks than in one semester at college. What surprised me is how much I learned outside of the classroom. The rest of the women and I became good friends, and we found ourselves going to class and discussing an issue, and then continuing to discuss the issue for the rest of the day with each other and with British folk.

One night I stayed up until 2 a.m. talking to a British philosophy major about how the binary system created by ancient philosophers perpetuates sexism. We went on walking tours, to museums, to plays, etc.

It was moving to stand under the balcony where Alice Paul threw “vote for women” ballots out over parliament, flip through Nova magazines at the Women’s Library, and have class in the same building that Virginia Woolf lived in. Women’s Studies in London is a must for students devoted to educating themselves on Women’s issues and feminist thought.”