The Women's Center's interns are a diverse group of students who play an important and integral role in the Center's events and programs.
Interns
Interning at the Center gives students hands-on experience developing skills that will be useful to them in the wide variety of fields they pursue after graduation, and the professional quality of their work enriches the Center’s operations and programs. Many of our interns take the two semester course, “Women Engaged in Peacemaking and the Promotion of Global Justice”, taught by Jen Merritt, as part of their Women’s Center experience.
2009-2010 Intern Profiles
Name: Leyla Babaoglu
Email: lmb8v
Internship: International Initiatives
Year/Major: 4th/ Foreign Affairs
Activities: Delta Gamma, Sustained Dialogue, TSPA
Most inspiring female icon:
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Sexual Violence
Name: Eman Bani
Email: eib3t
Internship: Diversity and Advocacy Events
Year/Major: 2nd / Biology
Activities: Pharmacology Lab Intern
Most inspiring female icon: Jackie Kennedy
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Women’s Health
Name: Analise Brown
Email: amb5rd@virginia.edu
Internship: Marketing Communications
Year/Major: 3rd / Computer Science
Activities: Students United for Business Chair
Most inspiring female icon: Michelle Obama
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Female body identity/ image through the media
Name: Erica Clark
Email: edc4s@virginia.edu
Internship: Philosopher’s Program
Year/Major: 3rd / Psychology
Activities: YWLP, SGRho, SGRhostep
Most inspiring female icon: Michelle Obama
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Domestic Violence
Name: Jessica Clark
Email: jnc7f@virginia.edu
Internship: Marketing Communications
Year/Major: 4th / English
Activities: Jefferson Public Citizens, YWLP
Most inspiring female icon:
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Addressing the educational gaps the effect impoverished male and female children in the US and third world countries
Name: Sara Duke
Email: sed8d@virginia.edu
Internship: SDVS
Year/Major: 3rd / Sociology, Studies in Women and Gender
Activities: SAFE, SARA, Boys and Girls Club, Chi Omega
Most inspiring female icon: Michelle Obama
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Defining our identities and space
Name: Chiuma Eleani
Email: cce2s@virginia.edu
Internship: Diversity and Advocacy Intern
Year/Major: 2rd / Psychology (Pre-Med)
Activities: Madison House Medical Services
Most inspiring female icon: Oprah Winfrey
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Body Image
Name: Halley Epstein
Email: hwe8b@virginia.edu
Internship: YWLP
Year/Major: 2nd / History
Activities: University Judiciary Committee, Environmental Sustainability Committee, Madison House Tutoring, Chi Omega
Most inspiring female icon: Rachel Carson
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Reproductive Rights
Name: Christie Hercik
Email: can4mc@virginia.edu
Internship: International Initiatives
Year/Major: 3rd / Global Development Studies, French
Activities: Global Development Organization, Global Public Health Research, Kappa Alpha Theta
Most inspiring female icon: Vandana Shiva
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Having control over your own body
Name: Jamie R. Hurd
Email: jrh7e@virginia.edu
Internship: YWLP
Year/Major: 4th / Psychology
Activities: Project RISE, Peer Advisor Program, Dance Marathon, RA for Early Childhood Lab
Most inspiring female icon: Michelle Obama
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Body image and concept of beauty
Name: Brittany Johnson
Email: bej7j@virginia.edu
Internship: Diversity and Advocacy Events
Year/Major: 4th / Architecture, Spanish
Activities: NOMAS, United Sisters
Most inspiring female icon: Michelle Obama
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Empowerment and education to women globally.
Name: Yonji Kim
Email:yk3m@virginia.edu
Internship: Diversity and Advocacy Events
Year/Major: 2nd / History, Economics
Activities: RA at the International Resident College, Inkstone, Sustained Dialogue, Samulnovi
Most inspiring female icon: Yu Kwansoon
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Direction of feminism today
Name: Elizabeth Libertini
Email: esl2u@virginia.edu
Internship: Eating Disorders Initiative
Year/Major: 3rd / History
Activities: Inter-Sorority Council Women’s Concerns Chair, Alpha Delta Pi, Joint Council Against Sexual Assault
Most inspiring female icon: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Body image and media issues
Name: Katie Linehan
Email: kel4a@virginia.edu
Internship: Philosopher’s Club
Year/Major: 4th / Foreign Affairs, History
Activities: Adopt-a-Grandparent
Most inspiring female icon: Oprah Winfrey
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Equal Pay
Name: Jane E. Monte
Email: jem5ec@virginia.edu
Internship: Diversity and Advocacy Events
Year/Major: 4th / Foreign Affairs
Activities: Madison House Cavs in the Classroom, Organization of Young Filipino Americans
Most inspiring female icon: Corazon Aquino
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: The burden of successful, ambitious women to balance their demanding careers with raising a family.
Name: Nishina Nambiar
Email:nvn9b@virginia.edu
Internship: Philosopher’s Program
Year/Major: 3rd / Foreign Affairs
Activities: Madison House, Cavalier Daily
Most inspiring female icon: Elizabeth II
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Social Justice
Name: Amy Orr
Email:alo3c@virginia.edu
Internship: Philosopher’s Club
Year/Major: 2rd / Government, Economics
Activities: FACE AIDS, Zeta Tau Alpha, Madison House Cavs in the Classroom
Most inspiring female icon:
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Defining and prosecuting rape and sexual/domestic violence.
Name: Jahmeila Paul
Email: jp9ee@virginia.edu
Internship: SDVS
Year/Major: 4th / Spanish
Activities: UVa Peer Health Educator, Office of Health Promotion Campaign Assistant, Student Organized for Caribbean Awareness
Most inspiring female icon: Oprah Winfrey
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Body Image
Diana Rivkin
Email: der2p@virginia.edu
Internship: SDVS
Year/Major: 3rd / Studies in Women and Gender, Philosophy
Activities: SAPA, Delta Zeta, Christ Episcopal Choir
Most inspiring female icon:
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Survivors who tell their stories, objectification of
women in college.
Name: Amy Vu
Email: aqv3t@virginia.edu
Internship: Iris
Year/Major: 3rd / Sociology, Media Studies
Activities: WUVA 92.7 KISS FM, Phi Sigma Pi Honor Fraternity, UVa Women’s Rugby
Most inspiring female icon: Oprah Winfrey, Lisa Ling, Ann Curry
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: “Post-feminism” and its effect on continuing to advocate for gender equality.
Name: Lizwa Sharifuddin
Email: lss9b@virginia.edu
Internship: Marketing and Communications Intern
Year/Major: 4th year/Economics
Activities: Student Entrepreneurs for Economic Development, Campaign Assistant for Social Norms Marketing, Malaysian Students Association
Most inspiring female icon: Oprah
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Gender inequality in the workplace
Name: Michelle Wagner
Email: mdw9r@virginia.edu
Internship: SDVS
Year/Major: 4th / Spanish, Art
Activities: Migrant Aid, SAPA
Most inspiring female icon: Sandra Cisneros
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Love and respect for a woman’s body
Name: Laura Waters
Email: lkw2u@virginia.edu
Internship: SDVS
Year/Major: 4th / History
Activities: SAPA, Chi Omega, University Symphony Orchestra
Most inspiring female icon: My mom
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Empowerment
Name: Victoria White
Email: vaw5c@virginia.edu
Internship: Diversity and Advocacy Events
Year/Major: 4th / German
Activities: SAFE, German Society, Fencing
Most inspiring female icon: Sara Dessen, Hillary Clinton
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Eating disorders, sexual crimes, and the struggle with perfectionism.
Name: Molly Woodriff
Email: mpw4q@virginia.edu
Internship: International Initiatives
Year/Major: 4th / Bioethics, Art
Activities: SARA, Pi Phi
Most inspiring female icon:
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Respect for women on a global level
Name: Alice Wu
Email: alicewu@virginia.edu
Internship: YWLP Tech/Web Development
Year/Major: 3rd / Anthropology, Foreign Affairs
Activities: Alpha Kappa Delta Phi
Most inspiring female icon: My Mom, Hillary Clinton
Hottest issue concerning today’s women: Continued efforts of liberating women around the world.
Hands-On Experience
The Women's Center at the University of Virginia is unique in its dual role as a service provider and a teaching institution. Student interns make up nearly half of our staff. Jackie Dolan (left) and Dawn Culpepper present their year-end project in the Spring of 2009.