Women's Center Staff
The Women's Center has six professional staff members and a variety of student staff opportunities.
Click on the link to learn more about our student opportunities or read below to learn more about our staff.
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.
For more information call us at 802-656-7892 or fill out our interest form!
If you need any accomodation in order to fully participate in any Women's Center event, please contact us by email or at 656.7892.
Last modified February 06 2009 06:31 PM
