Princeton University

The Women’s Center at Princeton was founded in 1971 as a resource for student activism on gender-related issues. The center is committed to fostering student leadership; facilitating mentorship between and among students, staff, faculty and alumnae; and creating opportunities for dynamic discussion on a range of topics.

The center is located on the second floor of Frist Campus Center, Room 243. We share reception space and conference room with the Davis International Center, and are right around the corner from the LGBT Center. We can be reached by phone at (609) 258-5565, by fax at (609) 258-2142 and by e-mail at womenctr@princeton.edu.

The center employs undergraduate work-study eligible students to help plan and advertise programs. The Student Employment website has more information and an application.

Jody Whitehead recently joined the Women's Center as office support staff. She is a native Floridian but has also lived in Colorado and graduated from Western State College of Colorado. Jody came to New Jersey and joined the staff at Princeton University five years ago, and she currently splits her time between our office and the Davis International Center. When she isn't working, Jody enjoys riding dirt bikes at the shore, walking her bull mastiff and snowboarding, even though East Coast mountains don't quite measure up to the Rockies! Stop by to say hello.

Jennifer Miller, program assistant

Amada Sandoval joined the Women's Center as director in 2001. Aside from those duties, she loves spending time in the classroom and has led precepts in English, American studies, humanities and women and gender studies courses. She is also an academic adviser for Wilson College, and a faculty fellow for the women's track and field team. 

Outside of work, Amada is a Ph.D. candidate in English and American literature at Princeton. She is working on finishing her dissertation (her motto is "I got mine in '09"), which focuses on gender, race and class in hard-boiled detective fiction and film noir from the early 1940s. She loves talking about all of the above, as well as contemporary film and fiction, "Mad Men," "The Wire," yoga, Colorado and children, among other things.