interns
September 15, 2021
Class Year: 2023
Major: WGS and Cognitive Science (linguistics concentration)
Hometown: Oakton, VA
1. What brought you to the Women's Center?
I was embraced by the welcoming female-led community at the WC and felt as though the WC served as the strongest support system available for students at UVA.
2. What is your favorite memory of UVA thus far?
Halloween Drag Race at the Art park!
3. Who is a woman that inspires you?
May 18, 2021
This year the UVA Women’s Center piloted the Reading in Hues Book Club, which turned out to be a much-needed space for cultivating connection and empathy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 23, 2021
In March of 2021, the interns of our Free Legal Clinic Team led the clinic’s most successful Transgender Name and Gender Marker Change Clinic to date. This specialty legal clinic facilitated connections between trans-affirming attorneys and transgender people looking for assistance in handling legal matters such as name and/or gender marker changes.
April 22, 2021
Year: 4th Year
Major: Political Philosophy, Policy & Law
1. What brought you to the Women's Center?
I knew some students in years above me who loved their time interning with the Women's Center! I was eager to have the same enriching and impactful experience that they did.
April 15, 2021
Year: 2022
Major: Philosophy; Women and Gender Studies; Minor in Studio Art
1. What brought you to the Women's Center?
It sounded like a cool organization that I really wanted to be a part of and I wanted to be able to help with the work they were doing!
2. What is your favorite memory of UVA thus far?
Getting to act in Hauntings for Brown! Y'all should totally come by if we have it next year!
April 01, 2021
Year: 2021
Major: Chemistry and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Hometown: Charlottesville, VA
1. What brought you to the Women's Center?
I've been here for 3 years now and originally, I was really interested in getting involved with survivor support work again. I've stayed because I love the community and the people I get to work with.
March 25, 2021
Year: 2023
Major: Undecided
1. What brought you to the Women's Center?
I saw the Women's Center booth at the student activities fair my first year and immediately knew that I wanted to get involved!
2. What is your favorite memory of UVA thus far?
Going to Lighting of the Lawn with my friends first-year is probably one of my favorite UVA memories. There was something so surreal about the moment -- I couldn't believe my first semester at UVA was already coming to an end.
March 20, 2021
We think often of our interns in the Class 2020 and were delighted when a recent update from Maddie Fleischmann assured us that she's not only faring well but remembering here time at the Women's Center just as fondly as we do. Earlier this month, International Women's Day put Maddie in mind of how much she enjoyed working with other interns to celebrate the same day on Grounds in 2019.
March 18, 2021
Major: Biology & Foreign Affairs
Year: Fourth Year
1. What brought you to the Women's Center?
There's something really special about the people at the Women's Center. Each person has a riveting perspective to bring, analyzes societal implications so deliberately, and fights hard for change. I wanted to work alongside those individuals, as well as channel my usual rants into actual and productive action.