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Class Year: 2024

Major: History and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Hometown: Great Falls, VA and Houston, TX

Program: Iris

Class Year: 2025

Major: Political & Social Thought and English 

Hometown: Great Falls, VA

Program: Iris

Class Year: 2024

Major: Cognitive Science and Women and Gender Studies

Hometown: Ashburn, VA

Program: Gender Equity 

Class Year: 2025

Major: Behavioral Neuroscience

Hometown: Lynchburg, VA

Program: Body Positive

UVA Barbie header photo credit: Erin Edgerton and Johnny Utterback, University Communications

In my house, we embrace nostalgia. My teen is fascinated by the 80s culture that shaped my own teen years. Last summer, we watched Top Gun together in preparation for Top Gun: Maverick.

Our programming for the Spring 2023 semester was bookended by public talks that poignantly spoke to each other, reinforcing the two Women’s Center messages that matter most deeply to me: the necessity of finding your personal approach to activism and t

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