Sharon Davie, Director of the Women's Center, graduated with a BA from Dickinson College and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. She has taught and been part of U.Va. administration for over twenty-five years. Sharon began the Women's Studies program in 1981 and the Women's Center in 1989. Her most recent publication is a book about US Women's Centers: University and College Women's Centers: A Journey to Equity. (Order it from Amazon.com.)

Virginia Moran is a native of Charlottesville and a U.Va. alumna who returned to Charlottesville to work as the Associate Director of the Women's Center after sojourning through the South - Houston, Mobile, and Nashville - in pursuit of a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing and teaching. She currently serves as the Acting Director of the Center during Sharon Davie's sabbatical. 

Dawn Leigh Anderson is the Director of Mentoring and Diversity Programs at the UVA Women's Center. She graduated in August 2002 from the University of Georgia with a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education, and two graduate certificates: one in Women's Studies, and the other in Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies. Her dissertation research, which won a national award, focused on understanding adolescent girls' experiences in a feminist mathematics classroom. She has presented and published on gender and feminism in mathematics education as well as qualitative research methodology.

In her current faculty position at the University of Virginia Women's Center, she coordinates and develops the mentoring, diversity, and advocacy programs at the Women's Center. She also teaches courses on women and girls psycho-educational development and local and global feminist activism.

One of her passions is international education. She sailed around the world as a faculty member with Semester at Sea in 2002, and spent January 2004 in Thailand on a Fulbright. She also cotaught a course on gender issues in South Korea in summer 2005. Currently she is codeveloping a study abroad program in El Salvador on women's community activism. In Summer 2007, she served as Assistant Academic Dean/Registrar for the Semester at Sea Latin American voyage.

Claire Kaplan, Director of Sexual and Domestic Violence Services since 1991, an activist in the feminist, anti-violence, democratic socialist, and LGBT movements. She earned her BS from UC Davis and her Masters in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, after which she worked in the film industry before joining the staff of the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women and then the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault in Washington, D.C. She has been the Director of SDVS (formerly known as the Sexual Assault Education Office) since 1991. Claire received her Ph.D. from UVa’s Curry School of Education; her dissertation examined the connection between undergraduate activism and a life-long commitment to social justice work among women's studies majors. Her most recent publication, co-authored with other UVA colleagues, is “Domestic Violence” – “Intimate Partner Violence." for Emergency Medicine Specialty Reports.

Claire is active in UVA Pride, UVA's LGBT Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Student Association, and is active on Grounds in working to ensure that the University is a fair and safe place for all students, staff, and faculty She lives in Charlottesville with her partner of 19 years and their eleven-year-old daughter.

Heather Neier has been on the Women’s Center’s advisory council for 12 years. She has volunteered and consulted for the Center over the years, and is enjoying her new position in development, where she thinks the Center has terrific potential to grow. After earning her bachelor’s at DePauw University in Indiana and working on an MFA at Indiana University, Heather worked in several fields, including stock brokerage and teaching English, as well as development. Heather lives near Howardsville in a cottage that dates to 1791. She loves the lush Virginia landscape. 

Carrie Wheat is the Faculty Advisor for iris magazine. She came to Charlottesville to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing, which she earned from UVa in 2003. Before coming to the Center she taught Women's Studies and English at Piedmont Virginia Community College. She enjoys leading the iris course, where each semester she develops the curriculum around the magazine's theme. In the future she is considering pursuing a PhD in Women's Studies.

Charlotte Chapman is the Director of Counseling Services at the Women's Center. Charlotte is a licensed professional counselor and a licensed substance abuse treatment provider. She has her Masters Degree in Counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University. Charlotte has been teaching at VCU for the past six years and has recently joined the Women's Center faculty and recently moved to the Charlottesville area from Richmond. She was in private practice in Richmond specializing in treating women and adolescents in addiction, trauma and other mental health concerns. She lives in Afton with her husband and many four legged beings.