Cville SHRM Member of the Month - November 2024

Congrats to our member of the month, Amanda Moxham, CHRO at the UVa Alumni Association.

   1. How long have you been a member of Cville SHRM? 

I first joined Cville SHRM when it was ACHRA, around 2007, with a few breaks in membership over I took a few years off here and there over the last 17 years.

2. Why did you join Cville SHRM? 

I moved to Charlottesville in 2007 as the first-ever in-house Recruiter at Northrop Grumman and I was seeking an HR community to grow in my first official HR job. 

3. What’s your favorite part of being a member of Cville SHRM? 

Charlottesville is a very small town when it comes to the HR community. I most appreciate the balance of members who have been around for many years and those newer to the organization. It continues to feel fresh and energizing year over year.

4. What is your current occupation? 
Chief HR Officer at the UVA Alumni Association

5. What do you love most about your job? 

I am a culture crafter and I have been empowered and inspired by my work at the Alumni Association. We are building a phenomenal culture and accomplishing huge, complex challenges in ways that are transformational.

6. Who inspires you? 

My kids inspire me—they are a constant mirror that forces me to be an authentic role model of how to build and sustain healthy relationships.

7. What advice would you give to someone who wants to enter HR? 

Decide who you are. What are your beliefs, values, and behaviors that are authentic to you? There are so many types of roles in the HR industry from generalists to specialists in functional areas like recruitment, benefits, compensation, learning & development, leadership development, coaching, and more. The scope of a role is also very different in a small 50-person, locally owned business than it is in a 100,000-person global corporation. Knowing who you are at your core will help you navigate up/down/and across this complex network.

8. What’s something about you (a fun fact) that not many people know? 

I am a transracial adoptee. I was born in Taiwan and adopted when I was a few months old. I work intentionally to unpack the cultural erasure, identity challenges, and inherent racism that exists in the transracial adoption space.

9. What’s the next place on your travel bucket list? 

I have a very long travel bucket list that includes Taiwan, Panama, and Japan.

10. What’s one item you can’t live without? 

My phone aka calendar, email, camera, note keeper, gaming device, movie and TV show delivery system.