It’s (already) that time of year again! We want to know about the amazing work your colleagues, students, professors, etc. are doing to advance the standing of women across UVM. We offer a number of awards, including an ally award. Take a look at our website for more information. Click on the link in the middle of the page to submit a nomination.
http://www.uvm.edu/~women/?Page=awards.html&SM=eventsmenu.html
All nominations are due by February 10, 2016.
Women@Noon returns on September 24th!
We are kicking off our 2015 series with:
Renewing Our Courage: Integrating Soul and Role
With Holly Wilkinson and Dani Comey
Free and open to the public. All genders welcome.
We’ll have tea and cookies. Feel free to bring your lunch!
@ The Women’s Center, 34 S. Williams Street (behind Waterman)
About Holly and Dani:
Holly Wilkinson is Assistant Director of the UVM Career Center by day and Courage & Renewal Facilitator by heart. She brings years of experience in facilitation and belief in the power of gathering and sharing in circles of community. Reflection, appreciation and creative expression are the ways Holly moves through the world, both on and off campus.
Dani Comey is the Associate Director of Student Life at UVM and has attended local Courage & Renewal events for several years. She finds this work a powerful tool for reflection and renewal. It offers her both challenge and support to show up in more courageous and integrated ways, at work and at home.
Our annual Welcome Back BBQ will take place on September 10, 2015, 5-7pm here in the WC backyard! There will be lots of yummy BBQ food (with vegan options), music and fun! Bring your friends, all are welcome! 
We always hate to say goodbye to summer but, at least, that means Women@Noon time is rolling around once more! Check out our 2015 listing below.
(Women@Noon is a weekly discussion series, held here in The Women’s Center Living Room. Everyone is welcome to attend. Bring your lunch and your friends! We supply tea and cookies.)
The publication of the women’s center zine Herizon is back for the 2015 spring semester! With a different look, same great taste (works for food branding right?) Herizon will be comprised of weekly-biweekly posts right here on the women’s center blog. Here you’ll find topics ranging from the happenings of collegiate life to powerful women making change in the everyday. Make sure to check in to see the latest and greatest work from our Zine writers!
Cheers!
Tiff
(editor, writer, shower singer extraordinaire :])
P.S leave comments about what you’d like to see in the zine. Lets make this our collective publication!
13th Annual
Women’s Awards Banquet
Call for Nominations
The University of Vermont Women’s Center
January 23, 2015
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The Women’s Center is excited to announce the call for nominations for this year’s Women’s Awards! At our annual awards ceremony, we will be celebrating those women, and community members as allies, who actively promote, support and encourage inclusion of women at all levels of university life.
This year’s Awards Banquet will take place on Monday, March 16, in the Silver Maple Ballroom at the Davis Student Center. The evening includes fantastic music, several guest speakers, delicious food and honoring community! Last year, almost 150 campus and community members joined in the celebration.
We hope that you will take a moment to nominate one of the many outstanding women and allies on campus who are actively engaged in the community. We would love the opportunity to recognize their important work as part of the campus’ Women’s HERstory Month Celebration!
We invite nominations for the following categories:
Descriptions for all awards are attached to this message and may also be found online at: http://www.uvm.edu/~women/?Page=awards.html&SM=eventsmenu.html
All nominations must be received at the Women’s Center by February 9, 2015. Nomination forms are attached and available on-line (preferred method)
https://survey.uvm.edu/index.php/575448/lang-en
For more information, please contact the Women’s Center (656-7892).
We’re more than half way through our 10 session line up for Womyn@Noon 2014! We’ve engaged in rich conversation each week for the past five weeks! If you haven’t had the chance to join us yet, there’s still time! Our sixth session in the series takes place this week!
We’ll be hearing from two Rubenstein School graduate students on the topic of Women and Nature-Based Causes!
This discussion will examine women’s work within environmental movements and directly connect this work to other initiatives and issues that women and their allies are speaking up against.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014, 12pm here at The Women’s Center
(34 S. Williams St. behind Waterman)
We’ll have goodies, cookies and tea. Feel free to bring your lunch and friends.
All are welcome!
Direct questions or accommodations to: Maria.Teixeira@uvm.edu
A complete series listing can be found here: 2014 Womyn@Noon
More about this session:
Around the world, women are disproportionately affected by environmental issues. Vandana Shiva, an internationally acclaimed ecofeminist states that the degradation of the environment directly relates to the subordination of women. Others add that the environment and women have a history of being exploited, and in fact, violence against nature and women are one. Yet, women are increasingly at the forefront to speak out against such inequalities.
In this discussion, we will ask the audience to join us in examining the linkages between the social and environmental justice movements and women’s experiences. A comparative case study approach will be used in the presentation, with personal reflections welcomed from the audience. Guided discussion will follow, centered around questions on how these issues form, how women are encouraged or discouraged from stepping forward, and how we can take personal and societal responsibility for enacting positive directions forward.
About our facilitators:
Elizabeth (Bess) and Rezwana are graduate students in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. Bess is a PhD student, focusing on the social dynamics and possibilities for engagement in urban national parks. Rezwana is a MS student, focusing on how national organizations frame risks associated with fracking. Both are passionate about exploring the human dimensions of environmental issues, which encompasses themes of social justice and enhanced relevancy.
All are welcome to a discussion on self love!
Thursday, Oct. 16th, 2014 at 12pm (noon)
at The Women’s Center (34 S. Williams Street, Burlington, VT – behind Waterman)
The Journey of Self-Love: Exploring and Nurturing Love Within’ focuses on self-love. It is a widely accepted notion that love is often an external force found outside of ourselves. This session focuses on the love each of us possess within. How do we define self-love? How do we nurture it in order to lead more balanced and healthy lives? This workshop explores this expression of love through music, literature, art, and discussion. Featuring work from Common, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and more. As a community we will define self-love and talk about different strategies for nurturing this love within ourselves.
Briana Martin is a recently published author of a poetry and prose memoir called ‘Red Roses’. She is also a UVM alum who received her Masters in Student Affairs Administration at Michigan State University. She is now a Coordinator with the UVM TRIO/Student Support Services program within Academic Success Programs. In her free time Briana immerses herself in the arts, where she creatively writes, performs poetry, and does write-ups for music artists.
More info or accommodations – Maria.Teixeira@uvm.edu
This week’s Womyn@Noon will be a discussion by UVM Ski and Snowboard Club member Hailey Ronconi! She’ll tell us why “girl is not a four letter word” and how women are excelling in the world of action sports, cause they are!
Thursday, Oct. 9th, 2014 at Noon!
As usual – you bring your lunch, we’ll bring tea and cookies. All are welcome (open to the public).
The Women’s Center – 34 S. Williams Street, Burlington (behind Waterman).
Women in Action Sports: YES I RIDE LIKE A GIRL:
In the current world where doing something “like a girl” is considered bad, weak, silly or humorous – this session will look at why and how women are defying that statement! Women are doing amazing things! We will showcase and celebrate women’s accomplishments in the world of action sports. We hope to empower others to join and not be afraid to participate “like a girl”. Whether that means to skate like a girl or snowboard like a girl, women and girls can do it! Drawing inspiration from those who are speaking up and out to empower the participation of women and girls, we will discuss why “girl” is not a four letter word and why women’s participation in action sports is crucial to in the work for equity.
About Hailey Ronconi:
Hailey Ronconi is an avid snowboarder and skateboarder attending the University of Vermont. When she isn’t on a board, she is still involved in many things related to these activities! Hailey is the Editor in Chief of New England Women’s Snowboarding and works as a skate coach at Talent Skatepark. She is stoked to help more girls get involved in skateboarding! Additionally, she is the Director of Marketing & Events for the University of Vermont Ski & Snowboard Club. Hailey is currently working on completing her Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Marketing for Women in Snowboarding. She has a love for pizza and getting weird but an even stronger love for getting more women involved in board sports!
Questions or accommodations: Maria.Teixeira@UVM.edu
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