Auburn University Women's Resource Center

Advisory Board

Chair

Harriette Huggins is the Coordinator, LRC Services in the Learning Resources Center in the College of Education. Ms. Huggins received her B.S. and M.S in Clothing in Textiles from Auburn University. She is co-chair of the Advisory Board of the Women’s Resource Center.

Ms. Huggins is a member of the College of Education Faculty and Governance Committee and is a member of the Advisory Committee and a Mentor for its Minority Achievement, Retention and Success (MARS) program. She is a past recipient of the College of Education Outstanding Administrative & Professional Staff Award. She is a Past-Chair of the Administrative and Professional Assembly and currently serves as Chair of its Nominations and Elections Committee. Through her work with Girl Scouts and 4-H, as a volunteer as well as professional, she has a particular interest in the leadership development of young women.

Chair Elect

Emily W. Myers, L.C.S.W. is the Director and Associate Clinical Professor of the Social Work Program in the Auburn University Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. She has been associated with the undergraduate program at Auburn for twenty years as in both a teaching and administrative capacity, having served as program director for the past fifteen years.
Professor Myers received her B.S.W. from the University of Southern Maine in 1974 and her M.S.W. from Louisiana State University in 1981. She is a licensed Clinical Social Worker and has been actively involved in outreach scholarship and collaborative community service in the areas of aging, addictions, adoptions, AIDS and women’s issues. She has been a member of the Women’s studies committee for twenty years and is currently on the advisory board for the Women’s Resource Center. She was elected Social Worker of the Year for the State of Alabama in 2008.
Professor Myers has been awarded numerous grants and has presented at BPD and the Council on Social Work Education on the topic of service learning. Professor Myers has taught Macro Social Work practice, aging and addictions courses with a service learning focus for the past twelve years and has served in a variety of leadership positions on campus related to diversity. During her tenure as Chair of the Multicultural Diversity Commission this Commission changed the University anti-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation.

Executive Committee

Mitchell Brown, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University. Dr. Brown’s broader research agenda focuses on the empowerment efforts of marginalized communities. Currently she is working on a book about national level advocacy organizations that work on behalf of women, African Americans and the homeless, teasing out their successes and what contributes to those successes in the post-Civil Rights era. From 2006-2009 she served as co-Principal Investigator of the evaluation of the Rural Domestic Violence and Child Victimization Enforcement Grant Program Special Initiative: Faith-based and Community Organization Pilot Program, a program of the Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) at the Department of Justice (DOJ) through her role as Research Director at the Institute for Community Peace (ICP). Other current research projects include an examination of the liberalization of abortion policies cross-nationally with Victor Asal of SUNY Albany, and studies of identity deployment strategies in US politics.

Dr. Brown received her PhD and an MA from the Department of Government and Politics from the University of Maryland College Park. In addition, she has an MA in Women’s Studies from The George Washington University, and a BA from Meredith College, a women’s college in Raleigh, NC. She previously served as a Research Associate at Vanderbilt University and has taught political science courses at American University, the University of Maryland, and the George Washington University.

Carol Roberson is an instructor in Human Development and Family Studies. She has taught a variety of courses, including Lifespan Development, Families in a Cross-Cultural Perspective, Sexuality across the Human Lifespan, and Gender in Close Relationships. Her interests include the feminization of poverty, mentoring relationships for adolescent girls, and issues related to sustainability.

Dr. Roberson received her B.S. in soil science from the University of Florida. She completed a Ph.D. in soil science from the University of Kentucky in 1988, worked for an environmental consulting firm, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences at Yale University, where she worked on issues related to pesticides in the diets of infants and children.

She later returned to graduate school and in 2001 completed a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Louisville. She has taught at Southern Union State Community College and Auburn University. She has served on the Diversity Committee in the College of Human Sciences and is currently on the board of the Women’s Resource Center and the Sustainability Initiative.

Valerie Morns-Riggins became employed at Auburn University in 1993 as an Accounts Specialist in the Facilities Division. In 1996 she transferred to Space Research Institute as a Contract Administrative Assistant and then to her current position, Administrative Support Specialist.
Valerie is a member of the National Council of Research Administrators (NCURA), the Southeastern Conference of College Cost Accounting (SECA) and Immediate Past-Chair of Auburn University Staff Council. She currently serves on the AU Budget Advisory Committee, AU Staff Council Steering Committee, AU Staff Council Grievance Committee, AU Administrator Evaluation Committee, and AU Insurance and Benefits Committee.