Grit and Growth: The Evolving Landscape for Women in College (virtual)

Overview

Join Lifetime Learning for an insightful discussion with Chanel Craft Tanner, Director of UVA’s Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center, on the evolving experiences of women in college. Despite making up over 50% of the student body, women navigate unique challenges in their academic and professional journeys. She will share insights on resources and the role the Women’s Center plays in addressing needs that empower young women, fostering a culture of lasting support and opportunity beyond their college years.

Speaker Biography

Chanel Craft Tanner, Director, Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center, University of Virginia

Chanel Craft Tanner joined the University of Virginia’s Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center as its Director in June 2024. Before coming to UVA, Tanner served in leadership roles at Emory University where she earned her Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She served as the Director of the Center for Women at Emory from 2017 to 2024, focusing on creating programs, events, and learning opportunities that recognize and redress historic and persistent gender inequity at Emory and beyond.

Tanner, who also holds an MA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Georgia State University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Maryland, is a member of the internationally recognized Crunk Feminist Collective, where she writes and speaks about popular culture informed by expertise in Black feminism and hip-hop studies. She is the co-author (along with Brittney Cooper and Susana Morris), of Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood published by Norton Young Readers and selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Book of 2021.

This Lifetime Learning program is in partnership with UVA's Maxine Platzer Lynn Women's Center.