Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center

Staff

Linda Manning, Director
Linda Manning became the Director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center in November of 1997. She teaches “Gender and Violence” for the Women and Gender Studies Program and “Trauma: Impact and Intervention” for the Human Development Counseling Program. Prior to coming to Vanderbilt, she was the Director of Psychological Services at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. Linda completed her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, with a concentration in the Psychology of Women, at the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. She has conducted programming and training activities related to gender equity and diversity issues for over twenty years. She is a licensed psychologist and specializes in working with survivors of trauma. She also teaches practices that focus on contemplation and spiritual growth and trains therapists to work with the mind, body, spirit connection (www.yogafortheemotionalbody.com). She loves reading poetry and listening to live music.

To contact Linda email: linda.g.manning@vanderbilt.edu.

Stacy Nunnally, Director, Gender Matters Programming
Stacy Nunnally joined the Margaret Cuninggim Women’ Center as director of Gender Matters in June 2006. Stacy is an advocate for women’s and girls’ issues in the greater Nashville area and is very active in the community. Her past work experience includes the Rape and Sexual Abuse Center, the Girl Scout Council of Cumberland Valley and the Tennessee Economic Council on Women. Stacy earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Vanderbilt in Political Science and Women’s Studies. Within the community, Stacy is the co-chair of the Tennessee Economic Council Advisory Board for Greater Nashville and for the Higher Education committee for the “Walk as One” event with the National Coalition for Community and Justice of Middle Tennessee. She has been accepted into the Fall 2006 class for the Young Leaders Council in Nashville and looks forward to being involved in this group dedicated to training community board members and creating awareness for the needs of non-profits and agencies in Nashville. Stacy strives to live according to one of her favorite quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” For Stacy, and for all of us, gender truly does matter and impacts all areas of our lives. It is important that we keep dialogue open, advocate for social and political change and encourage work together to make sure we don’t become silent about the things that matter.

To contact Stacy email: stacy.nunnally@vanderbilt.edu

Barbara Clarke, Librarian
Barbara Clarke has been the librarian at the Women's Center since August 1990. She was born in Australia and moved to the United States in 1971. She has a graduate Degree in library science and has worked in the libraries at Monash University in Australia, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, at Baptist Hospital in Knoxville, at the University of Tennessee and at the Brentwood Library. Her hobbies include traveling, reading, and collecting books and records. She also volunteers at the Elephant Santuary in Hohenwald, TN.

To contact Barbara email: barbara.m.clarke@vanderbilt.edu

Inderjit (Vicky) Basra, Co-Director of Project Safe
Vicky joined the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center in 2002 as the Co-Director of Project Safe. While at the Women's Center, she completed her Masters of Social Work at the UT College of Social Work. A committed advocate for social justice, Vicky has worked tirelessly on behalf of the underserved and marginalized in Canada and now in Tennessee. Prior to joining the Women’s Center’s staff, Vicky worked for Nashville’s YWCA battered women’s program as their Community Development Liaison and Support Group Advocate. Her sensitivity to the needs of lesbians, immigrants, and women of color encouraged her to develop support groups for specific communities. Aside from providing leadership to Project Safe, Vicky has served on the board for the TN Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence. She is presently serving on the board of Cole Solutions, Inc. and the India Association Social Action Committee. She looks forward to the day when violence against women ends so she can retire and travel around the world.

To contact Vicky email: vicky.basra@vanderbilt.edu

Kacy Silverstein, Co-Director, Project Safe
Kacy graduated from Vanderbilt in the Spring of 2004, with a major in Anthropology and a minor in Women’s Studies. Since that time she has received her Master in Education from the Human Development Counseling Program at Vanderbilt. Kacy hopes to become a licensed professional counselor, working with women affected by trauma and violence. Kacy joined the Women’s Center in 2005, as the Associate Director of Project Safe, although she began working with the Project Safe program while still an undergraduate at Vanderbilt. While interested in a number of women’s issues both domestically and internationally, Kacy is most passionate about the movement to end violence against women and about advocating on behalf of the young women with which she works. She also spends time working with other social justice movements in Nashville, as well as trying to persuade her three younger sisters (and younger brother) to become involved with women’s issues. Kacy believes strongly in the Project Safe philosophy and loves her work with students, faculty, and staff on this campus.

To contact Kacy email: kacy.silverstein@vanderbilt.edu

Misa Culley, Editor, Women's VU
Misa joined the Women’s Center in January 2003 and brings with her a wealth of experience in the non-profit world of arts management, where she worked in office management, special events planning, public relations, newsletter editing and outreach programming. A former professional modern dancer in her youth, she performed with the Vanderbilt Dance Group from 2001 (after the birth of her second child) until April 2006 when she decided it was time to retire graciously. Misa is co-founder of Vandy Moms, a Women's Center program that supports working mothers on the Vanderbilt campus. A busy, active mom to two school-age children, Misa participates in PTA activities, and enjoys hiking, camping, cooking, quilting, politics, and freelance design work. An avid DIYer, she and her husband, Josh, enjoy renovating their new (old) house. Misa is currently pursuing a master's degree in Mass Communications at MTSU, where she also serves as editorial assistant for AEJMC's publication, Journalism & Communication Monographs.

To contact Misa email: misa.culley@vanderbilt.edu

Jeana Carlock, Administrative Assistant
Jeana Carlock, a rare Nashville native, is the Center’s Administrative Assistant. She joined us in May 2006 and brought with her almost 11 years of Vanderbilt experience. Previously with the Center for Teaching and Human Resource Services, she found she loved working with VU students and felt they have helped keep her current on cultural and Vandy happenings and have given her lots of encouragement on raising her growing daughter! Jeana received her B.S in Communication Studies at MTSU and has dedicated herself to women’s issues and learning all she can about gender, safety, sexuality and equality and to finding her own voice for advocacy. Jeana loves to garden, read, try new foods and restaurants, watch movies, and attend community events. She’s kept busy at home with her cats, Tish, Shadow, Spitzer and the most cute and loveable, Zorro!

To contact Jeana, email: jeana.carlock@vanderbilt.edu