Alene Moris Women’s Center

Educating for Life & for Leadership

The UW Alene Moris Women’s Center is a place and catalyst for collective change, forging both belonging and resilience on and off campus. We are a community of different people all coming and working together from different departments and different pasts here at the University of Washington. Together, we offer up a transformational and supportive set of educational programming, leadership development, as well as a variety of different workshops, services, and events. The goal, for us, is to help catalyze collective change by creating, cultivating, and then sustaining workshops, services, and events that all allow for the individuals involved to better grow, blossom, and bloom. Lastly, the UW Women's Center is open, welcoming, and available to all interested students, staff, faculty, and community members.

Leadership Development

We provide access to resources and opportunities for anyone interested in being a catalyst for change. We are especially invested in those who are thinking about what resilience and belonging look like in the context of a changing community.

Current program

Moris Leadership Academy: A National Convening for Emerging Leaders

Services

We emphasize supporting students who are first-generation to higher education, returning or non-traditional students, and aspiring leaders on their career paths.

Current programs

Transformational Education

We create the conditions that help to catalyze change with programs globally recognized for their success.

Current programs

Message from the director

The Women’s Center welcomes people of all ages and identities. It has a vital mission to be a place where different people can come together in community in order to then collaboratively forge a culture of belonging and resilience that spans not only across campus but is local and global as well. The center’s programs, workshops, events and services all inspire and support people in achieving their own educational and life aspirations. Read More

I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. —bell hooks

The History of the UW Alene Moris Women's Center

The Women’s Center is housed in historic Cunningham Hall and operationally with the College of Arts and Sciences. Since its inception over 115 years ago, the Women’s Center has served the community in a multitude of ways –- including acting as meeting place for the suffragists who fought for women’s right to vote in our state.

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