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The UC Women's Center staff has created this page in order to introduce ourselves and inform students, faculty, and staff of the diversity within our office and on campus. We are available for contact through many different methods, but we most enjoy it when people simply stop by and introduce themselves.


Professional Staff

Barbara Rinto
Director

Barb has been at the Women’s Center since 2002. She has a BA in Sociology from Kent State University; a Master’s of Public Administration from Cleveland State University and has done post-graduate work at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Barb has worked in women’s health as the CEO of Planned Parenthood and at the UC College of Medicine. Barb also teaches a class in Women and Activism through the Dept. of Women’s Studies. Email her at barbara.rinto@uc.edu

 

Amy Howton
Program Manager/ Sexual Assault Response Coordinator

 Amy has Masters degrees in both Women's Studies and Community Mental Health Counseling. The best ways to contact Amy are to call her direct line, 556-0173 or via e-mail at amy.howton@uc.edu.. To receive crisis intervention or emergency support services, call her direct line during office hours or, after hours, call the UC Women's Center sexual violence crisis line at 218-9531. If you would like to talk to Amy, please stop by the Women's Center to make an appointment or meet informally.

 

Tamika C. Odum
Program Manager, Outreach, Promotion and Education

Tamika is the Program Manager for Outreach, Promotion and Education at UC’s Women’s Center. Tamika is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. She received her MA in Sociology from the University of Cincinnati in 2003 and is currently working on her Doctorate in Sociology with a concentration in race and reproductive health. In addition to the Women’s Center Tamika also teaches numerous courses at UC including Introduction to Sociology, Race and Modern Society, Barriers to Equality and Contemporary Social Issues. If you would like to talk to Tamika, please stop by the Women's Center to make an appointment or meet informally. Feel free to contact her @ 513-556-6261 or via e-mail Tamika.Odum@uc.edu

  

Brandy Turnbow
Program Coordinator for Peer Education

Brandy Turnbow is a Cincinnati native who has recently returned to the city.  She received her B.S. in African American Studies from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.  In the Women’s Center she works with peer educators to coordinate programming on various topics including body image, sex education, and LGBQ and T issues. You can contact Brandy by calling her at 513.556.4499, by e-mail at brandy.turnbow@uc.edu  or by stopping by the Women’s Center.

  

 

Kim Fulbright
Sexual Assault Prevention Program Coordinator

Kim Fulbright is the Sexual Assault Prevention Program Coordinator.  She received her B.A. from Miami University and her M.A. at UC in Women’s Studies.  In the Women’s Center she works with Peer Education around healthy relationships and relationship violence amongst other various programs.  You can contact Kim by calling her at 513.556.4328, by e-mail at fulbrika@uc.edu or stopping in the Women’s Center.

 

Ann Brown
Administrative Coordinator

Ann was born and raised in Cincinnati.  She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Cincinnati in 1999, while working full time and raising her three children. As she starts her nineteenth year at the University, she would like to extend a hardy Hello and hopes to greet students, staff and faculty, as they stop by the Women's Center. Ann can be reach by email browam@uc.edu or 556-4401.

 
Graduate and Research Assistants

 

Jane Meek
LGBTQ Support and Advocacy Coordinator

Jane works as the LGBTQ Advocacy ans Support Coordinator. Jane received a M.A. in English from the University of Alabama and did post graduate work in Sociology and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. She is currently a UC graduate student working on another M.A. in Women's Studies. To contact Jane concerning any LGBQ and T issues, student groups, advocacy programs, or Safe Zone training sessions for faculty,staff, and/or student leaders please call her at 513-556-4329 or email her at meekjb@email.uc.edu.

 

 

 

Jessica Morgan
Women’s Initiative Network Research Assistant

Jessica Morgan is the Women’s Initiatives Network (WIN) Research Assistant.  Jess is originally from Louisville, KY and received her B.A. in Women’s Studies from The University of Kentucky in Lexington.  Jess worked with Hardy Girls Healthy Women in Waterville, ME as an Americorps VISTA before relocating to Cincinnati to begin working on her M.A. in Women’s Studies.   In the Women’s Center Jess helps identify the best ways to advance gender equity throughout UC, and to develop university-wide climate studies around the success of women throughout the University.  You can contact Jess by phone at 513.556.4860, by e-mail at morgajc@email.uc.edu, or in person at the Women’s Center.

 


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UC Women's Center
Division of Student Affairs & Services
University of Cincinnati,
Steger Student Life Center, Suite 571
PO Box 210179
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0179
Phone: 513-556-4401; Fax 513-556-0686

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