Supporting Women, Impacting Society
SWIS is a student-run organization at Ithaca High School dedicated to intersectional feminism and social justice.
Meetings: Tuesdays after school (3:45-4:45) in F7
Anyone is welcome at any meeting, regardless of identity!
SWIS members, IHS students and staff, and Advocacy Center representatives from our pre-march gathering and poster-making session before Take Back the Night in April 2023.
SWIS members making posters for Take Back the Night during our Social Justice Week workshop in March 2023 (left).
SWIS Leadership (Claire Russell '23 & Alex St. Pierre-Nguyen '24) and Advocacy Center Intern (Grace Lim '23) presenting to over 200 IHS students and staff during Social Justice Week on sexual violence (right).
SWIS Leadership (Mariah Loehr '22, Claire Russell '23, Fiona Hinrichsen '24, & Kate Keresztes '22) at the first annual Climate Action Exposition in May 2022 with a display on the Social Impacts of Climate Change.
*Disclaimer*
There are several social media accounts under our name which currently we do not have access to, but we are working on taking them down and/or gaining access. Several of these accounts have content that does not currently represent the values, mission, and work that we do as a club, and we apologize for this confusion and misrepresentation.
Our only active account is @ihs_swis on Instagram.
Please ignore and unfollow these accounts:
Facebook: @IHSSWIS
Twitter: @ihsstrongwomen
Tumblr: @thefeministsociety