Subject: Interim Co-Directors and Search Committee for the Women's Center

From: Caltech Directory <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:18:07 -0800

Subject:  Interim Co-Directors and Search Committee for the Women's Center

To: 	    Caltech Community

From:     John Hall, Acting Vice President for Student Affairs

With the upcoming move across campus for Candace 
Rypisi, Director of the Women's Center, to her 
new appointment as the Director of 
Student/Faculty Programs, I am very pleased to 
announce that Jane Curtis, Caltech's Health 
Educator, and Dr. Linda Krippner, a Counselor in 
Caltech's Staff and Faculty Consultation Center 
and at JPL, have agreed to serve as interim, 
part-time Co-Directors of the Women's Center for 
the remainder of the academic year.

Both Jane and Linda bring a wealth of experience 
and expertise to their new roles.  In her 
capacity as Health Educator in Student Affairs, 
Jane works very closely with all students and has 
implemented innovative programming.  Prior to her 
arrival at Caltech, Jane also served as a program 
coordinator for the Women's Resource Center at 
Cal State Long Beach, and received her Masters in 
psychology and women's studies.  As an employee 
assistance program counselor at Caltech and JPL, 
Linda works closely with many staff, faculty, and 
offices on campus, and serves on the campus 
crisis response team.  In work outside of 
Caltech, Linda has developed mentoring and 
volunteer opportunity programs for students and 
others.  Both Jane and Linda will continue to 
work part-time in their respective capacities 
during this interim period.  Please join me in 
welcoming Linda and Jane to the Women's Center.

We have also started the search process for a new 
Director of the Women's Center, and I am very 
grateful to Professor Melany Hunt for agreeing to 
serve as chair of the Search Committee along with 
co-chair, Miriam Feldblum, Senior Director for 
Academic Support and Planning in Student Affairs. 
Other members of the search committee include 
Health and Counseling Center Senior Director 
Kevin Austin, Ombudsperson Ornah Becker, April 
White Castañeda and Dlorah Gonzales of Human 
Resources, graduate student Harmony Gates, 
Associate Dean Barbara Green, postdoctoral 
scholar Heather Pinkett, Professor Brian Stoltz, 
and undergraduate Raquel Velez.

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