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Counseling services at the Women's Center will resume with normal business hours on Thursday, January 3, 2019. If you are need of support during the Winter Break, please see below for a list of resources:
If you are a UVA student and you are experiencing a mental health emergency, please call CAPS on-call line at 434-243-5150.
Name: Maddie Fleischmann
Year: Third
Major: Psychology and Sociology
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
1. What brought you to the Women's Center?
Alumna Sara Duke Grey Continues to Care & Advocate for Survivors
Name: Jasmin Li
Year: Second
Major: CS and ECON
Hometown: Fairfax, VA
1. What brought you to the Women's Center?
Name: Tomoya Nishira
Year: Exchange Student (BA of 20')
Major: Sociology (gender/ sexuality and global studies)
Hometown: Himeji City, Hyogo, Japan
1. What brought you to the Women's Center?
Name: Karishma Srikanth
Year: 2nd
Major: Prospective Global Public Health and Economics, with a minor in Social Entrepreneurship
Hometown: Clifton, VA
1. What brought you to the Women's Center?
Name: Ariel Harris
Year: Third Year
Major: Double in WGS & political theory
1. What brought you to the Women's Center?
Outside of my major, their resources and safe space helped me a lot with the experiences I've had my first two years of college. It's a wonderful place!
2. If you could describe YWLP or MLP in 3 words, how would you describe it?
Rewarding, humbling, and fun
Student Chris Sausa, right, and his “little brother” Johan, center, along with student Garrett Lukens, build doghouses with Sharon Shafer from Houses of Wood and Straw, left, and NBC-29 reporter Moriah Davis. (Photos by Peggy Harrison)
This article has been reprinted from UVA Today.
Christopher Sausa remembers how awkward it felt being a seventh-grader. He recalls feeling “stuck in the middle – not a kid, but not a grown-up yet,” and he wished he had someone to talk to. But at the time, his father felt too far removed and his younger brother wouldn’t be any help.
In the wake of the shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, remember that the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center is here year-round for members of the University community who are grieving or need support in coping with news of violence aimed at members of their faith or any other community that is important to their identity. We stand, as always, with all of our students, alums and colleagues working to create a respectful culture on Grounds and across the world.