Iris Magazine is the Center's award-winning, nationally acclaimed magazine for thinking young women at the University of Virginia and beyond.
Publishing
Iris
In the magazine's nearly 30 years history, it has always served as a teaching vehicle, educating University students how to create change through print media. The new version of Iris is no different. Students in the Women's Center Diversity and Advocacy Program intern class and in the University Intern Program work with ongoing Iris staff to decide on the content and look of both the print and the web versions of the magazine, gather information about articles and ideas of interest to the target audience, develop advertising and marketing plans for the magazine, and distribute it to subscribers, contributors and libraries. Thus the students who work with Iris learn the publishing trade from all angles--content, advertising, design, and distribution. They also have opportunities to interact with members of the Iris Publishing Advisory Board, people experienced in the publishing world both in Charlottesville and beyond. In the future they will work with the networking interface of alumnae and current students to be developed via the Iris website.