Resources
Staff Spotlight: Mary Esselman
While’s no great surprise that our Iris editor, Mary Esselman, has not one but four “favorite” fictional heroines, there’s one real-life feminist she loves to sing along with that you’ll have to read to believe.
Book Festival's Social Justice Events Abound
What’s your favorite thing about living in Charlottesville? Making your meals from fresh goods grown nearby or heading to a favorite locally owned restaurant or take out purveyor? Staying in shape with outdoor, indoor, free, community-sponsored, or boutique fitness options?
Festival Brings 5 Days of Author Events and Many Months of Must-Reads
The Virginia Festival of the Book is quintessentially Charlottesvillian in the embarrassment of educational and cultural riches it consistently brings us each year.
Students Said it Best in 2017
As a small office collaborating with many others across Grounds and in the Charlottesville community, we get a LOT of different takes on the value of our work over a year’s time. In the end it’s always the students who see with the greatest clarity and provide us with the inspiration to persist. This is how they saw 2017. And we’re grateful for the opportunity to see it through their eyes.
Women's Center's Claire Kaplan Honored with Bernard D. Mayes Award
On November 7, 2015, members of the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center’s staff had the pleasure of attending the Serpentine Society’s Fall Gala and seeing their long-servin
Staff Spotlight: Alison Kuhn
Get to know our very own Communications Coordinator, Alison Kuhn!
1. Tell us about your path to UVA, to where you are now and the work you’re currently doing for the Women’s Center.
#GivingToHoosDay Success!
Thank you! All of you who joined us in last month's GivingToHoosDay by donating and sharing our social media posts came together with our matching donor to generate a wonderful infusion of funding for our programs.