Profiles
![Flash Friday: Sophia Swengel](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/Flash%20Friday%20Header%20Sophia%205.3.24.jpg?VersionId=iLFZMninvRHSYzjFfWlT89Z_ASNzgQxI&h=76879d03&itok=XKqIrf08)
Meet Sophia Swengel, a junior history major with a minor in creative writing from York, Pennsylvania, exploring the history of Kent State from the inside out.
![Flash Friday: Eduardo Strobel](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/Flash%20Friday%20Header%2024.4.26%20wh.jpg?VersionId=MffbDD.ZjQZNHLIgYz9gfh2EMiDy5hwZ&h=a31ffb6c&itok=Hr6VQxwr)
This Flash Friday we want to introduce you to Eduardo Miranda Strobel, an international student from Curitiba, Brazil, getting the full Kent State experience.
![Meg Gidley of Blazing Bats](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/MegGidleyBanner.jpg?VersionId=UNVqAPsjzQIvzTQZPhUHjckY78ycukhT&h=013d9b62&itok=QFq6Hrys)
Senior entrepreneurship major Meg Gidley has loved softball since she was three years old. It was in her blood. Then, injuries sidelined her playing career. So she started a coaching business.
![Fashion finds at the Kent State Museum. Fashion finds at the Kent State Museum.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/fashion%20finds%202.jpg?VersionId=7Zep3ws889nSdbQiSISHOjGJdccnzXJA&itok=1tv1U3c8)
When Kent State Today asked Kent State University Museum Director Sarah Rogers to put together a list of her ‘Top Five Finds’ at the museum – must-see items, her favorite pieces, or cool or unusual items that might surprise visitors – she did not disappoint
![Flash Friday: Penelope Cervantes](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/Flash%20Friday%20Header%2024.4.19%20hp.jpg?VersionId=y7P3v.BpnHeR0DrNq6NS3CnMFKKtjVau&h=1aa8ba58&itok=Mvye1TZR)
Meet Penelope Cervantes, a senior biology major with a Spanish minor from Toledo, Ohio. With a passion for science, Cervantes’s choice to study biology was easy.
![Freda Robinson](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/FREDA_ROBINSON-2-hero-image1500x600_0.jpg?VersionId=XyRTBxxr1OKHdnZviq34lapaC1ZpPLhZ&itok=Q5yam6Sf)
Freda Robinson is proof that a college degree is worth the journey – at any age and for as long as it takes.
![Flash Friday Nashya Poole](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/Flash%20Friday%20banner%20Header%2024.4.12%20hp.jpg?VersionId=98HwKWDCGAmnlcw7kUSKmuFumKwBsDr4&h=ead97be6&itok=r4wS2f8_)
Meet Nashya Poole, a junior business management major with a minor in entrepreneurship from Cleveland, Ohio, who has made the most of her time at Kent State University through leadership roles and student organizations.
![Leah Benson](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/Flash%20Friday%20Header%2024.3.22.jpg?VersionId=kH9Jk4k_ANLIcVCiBxtddWp5_3eAOysE&h=76a15783&itok=CTSRW4hP)
This Flash Friday we want you to meet Leah Benson, a senior aerospace engineering major from Hermitage, Pennsylvania.
![Cassandra Pegg-Kirby, director of Kent State's Women's Center. Cassandra Pegg-Kirby, director of Kent State's Women's Center.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/240066_women%E2%80%99s%20history%20month%20mark%20and%20web%20header%20Kirby.jpg?VersionId=ruwlOGcUGJ4IZ73fQCC7WgoIOatVZOaK&itok=Kk0wvr-_)
Despite her multitude of duties as a director of Kent State University’s Women’s Center, Cassandra Pegg-Kirby remains focused on one key mission: Keeping the center open and relevant. “Women’s centers are not always thought of as necessary since women are in the majority now,” she said.
![Meghan Schwind Banner Meghan Schwind Banner](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/240066_women%E2%80%99s%20history%20month%20mark%20and%20web%20header_Selected_3_22_2024.jpg?VersionId=mnlOjxTTOgukbJaEbfZVTtvJKvc4fTkU&itok=4gjlJSeG)
As a spouse, a mother and a member of Kent State's LGBTQ+ community, Meghan Schwind shares her thoughts for Women's History Month on challenges women face and her hopes for rising generations of women.