The Women's Center has six professional staff members and a variety of student staff opportunities.

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• LuAnn Rolley - Director 
  LuAnn oversees all of the activities of the Women's Center, covering a diverse set of women's concerns and promoting opportunities and educational equity for women. She works with the staff to develop a vision and mission for the Center. She works to consult with groups and individuals on personal and professional needs, and with administrators on women's concerns while serving as a liaison between the university and community women's organizations. LuAnn also works with groups and individuals on promoting an equitable, non-sexist and culturally pluralistic environment and helps to advise UVM administrators, trustees, faculty, staff, and students in regard to equity issues for women. She is also the Project Director for the Campus Gender Violence Project, funded by the Department of Justice.
   
  
• Mira Fakirananda - Office Manager
  Mira is responsible for the maintenance of all of the Women's Center budgets, facilities, and logistics and helps to supervise the student staff at the center. Mira serves a joint appointment with the President's Commission on the Status of Women and oversees all of their records and budgets as well.

• Judy Rickstad - Coordinator of Advocacy & Violence Prevention Services
  Also known as the Victim's Advocate, Judy is responsible for providing direct services and coordinating services on campus for victims of sexual assault, stalking, and relationship violence and domestic violence. She serves as a confidential source to provide options, information and advocacy to survivors of sexual violence, and to friends and family members. She also provides educational programs around issues of gender violence to students, staff, and faculty, and chairs the Sexual Violence Response Team. Advocate works closely with a variety of campus and community organizations to help prevent violence and to provide the best service possible to survivors.
  

• Candace Taylor - Coordinator of Programming & Leadership Development
  Candace is responsible for planning and implementing large and small-scale programs and events for the campus and community and for working with the student staff on each of their individual projects. Our program goal is to promote understanding of the intersections of gender, sex, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, ability/disability, and religion. Thus, in this position, Candace, fosters as much collaboration as possible with special focus on collaborations with the three other Diversity and Equity offices. Candace also supports the development and implementation of campus wide programs to increase opportunities for student, staff and faculty leadership development and increased awareness of a variety of intersecting issues. She also maintains the Women's Center website.

• Sarah Greenleaf Warrington - Education & Outreach Coordinator
  Sarah is responsible for coordinating and implementing the Campus Advocacy Program's education and training initiatives on sexual violence, relationship violence and stalking. She also serves as the outreach coordinator for the Campus Advocacy Program, working closely with the Coordinator of Advocacy & Violence Prevention Services to create and foster campus-wide awareness about available services on campus and in the community.