GCSU Women’s

Center 2020
Summer Internship
Lexie Moffett
KINS 4306
The Women’s Center at Georgia College
GCSU Women’s Center Staff
The women’s center is located Blackbridge Hall on Clarke Street
● Director of the Women’s Center: Dr. Jennifer Graham (left)
● Melissa Gerrior (standing)
○ Over LGBTQ activities and Project Brave
● Emily Brookshire (right)
○ Over leadership opportunities and conferences
The Women’s Center Mission and Objective…..
Mission: “The Women’s Center at Georgia College strives to create a dynamic
campus community that challenges gender-based oppression through education,
support, and community-building”

Their objectives:
■ To Create programs that promote healthy sexuality and relationships;
■ To Provide opportunities for leadership development and personal empowerment;
■ To Promote collaboration across campus and community for social change;
■ To enact and create power-based interpersonal violence prevention efforts at GC;
■ Help Support members of our campus community in times of crisis.
Services offered
Lactation Spaces
● the Women's Center oversees several lactation space locations on campus where
mothers who breastfeed can come to either breastfeed or express milk. They also
provide a map of where each station is located
Resource Library
● The Women's Center has a resource library that contains a wide array of books
relating to various women's issues
Community Groups
● Each semester the Women's Center offers a range of community building groups.
Trainings and Presentations
● The Women’s Center offers a number of presentations, workshops,
and trainings on a variety of topics.
Why I wanted to intern at the
Women’s Center…..
 First tasks / Assignments:

Editing the women’s Home Finding resources

page information
● Reviewing the website and
providing feedback on the ● Find Phone number and
structure of the different website links for different
pages organization
● Provide possible updates ● Provide the description for
for the website. the different organization
○ More pictures
○ Adding in event and
program
Personal Goals and Objectives
Goal: To provide first year students with necessary information that
they could use throughout their college experiences.
Learning Objective
● To have former student share advice;
● To give this information to first year students during the Women’s center fist
newsletter of the semester
Activities:
● Create a survey for former student and staff to fill out
● Collecting and interpreting responses
● Creating a news article
I Wish I Would Have Known
Purpose: The transition from highschool to college is difficult for many students.
They are experiencing so many thing for the first time, and it can be confusing.
This project was created in order to help that transition process.

Stage One: Brainstorming

Stage Two: Creation of Form & Marketing planning
Stage Three: Launch
Stage Four: Response collection and interpretation
Stage Five: Creation of article and Publish.
Stage One: Brainstorming
Stage Two:
Creation of Form &
Marketing planning
Stage Two: Google Survey

Google Form :
 Marketing
Material
“Hello everyone! I’m working with the
GCSU women center and we’re putting
together a project where we’re asking
current and former Gcsu students and
Faculty to give their advice to first-year
students! We want students to share
information they wish someone would
have told them going into their first year of
college!!! Please! Please! Please share
your wonderful advice!
Link here: https://bit.ly/2YmNZJ4”
Stage Three:Launch
Stage Four:
Response
collection and
interpretation
Results of
Survey
Total Responses: 30
Sophomores: 6.2%
Junior: 46.7%
Recent Graduates: 43.3%
Faculty: 3.3%
Stage Five: Creation
of article and
Publish.
BuzzFeed Article
Personal Goals and Objectives
Goal: To locate and distributed media content that showcased people of color
Learning Objective
● learning how to become an advocate for women and men of all ethnic
minorities/ background
Activities:
● Create a list of books that show different background and ethnicity and
distribute that list so people can find characters they relate to and have
shared experience
Skills and Competencies:
● research, marketing
People of Color in literature
Purpose: While there are plenty of books that feature people of color and talks
about their experience, they are not promoted. For the most part mainstream
media promote white narratives and this includes the books they choose to
promote. This projects goal was to create a curated list of books about POC that
the women’s center could share with GCSU student and faculty.

Stage one: Research

Stage two: creating the list
Stage Three: Distribution and Promotional Material
Stage One: Research
Stage Two: Goodreads Book List
 Stage Three:
Distribution and
Promotional
Material
The book list will be sent out in the women’s
center 1st newsletter of the semester and again
a couple of weeks after that
 Project that are in the works
Sexual Assault Initiative
Learning Objective:
● Learning different way in preventing
the sexual assault and supporting
victims
Activities:
● This would be a group discussion,
where student would come together
to discuss different issues involving
sex. This discussion would be based
of of different media sources like
documentaries, articles, and
podcast.
I have put together a list of potential
media sources that could be used. The
program could happen virtual or in person
Milledgeville Survival Guild
Goal
● Providing students with information
about GCSU and the Milledgeville
community. Also providing resources
about where they could find places
that suit their need
For example
● LGBTQ+ friendly Doctor offices
● Place POC can get there hair done
● Where you can get birth control and
STI testing