Resume

• 2015

  Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals

  Calgary

  Canada Area

  Teaching in the Departments of General Education and Humanities.

  Contract Faculty

  Mount Royal University

  Duties included: oversight and direction of educational programs on gender identity and sexual orientation to the WMU community; collaboration with registered student organizations and members of the WMU and local community agencies to provide students with access to health resources

  activities and support services. Facilitation of Safe on Campus training regarding the basics of how to be an ally to LBGT students. Coordination and facilitation of SpeakOUT! Panel presentations to classes

  residence halls and student organizations. Oversight of the Resource Room

  which provides access to information on a variety of LBGT-related research. Design of programs including the Rainbow Reception

  National Coming Out Day

  National Day of Silence and LBGT Awareness Days. Provided consultations with any member of the WMU community about personal

  academic

  or other matters related to the office mission. Provide harassment report assistance if an individual wished to report an incident based on their perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Field instructor to interns placed in the office. Successful application for grant funding with the Arcus Foundation.

  Coordinator

  LBGT Student Services

  Kalamazoo

  Michigan Area

  Western Michigan University

  Madison

  Wisconsin Area

  Duties include: researching and promoting effective policies and practices that support success for LGBTQ+ students; researching and advocating effective policies and practices that mitigate and prevent sexual violence and assaults on university campuses; researching and promoting effective student development policies and practices that foster and advance equity

  diversity

  and inclusivity. Additional duties include: providing coordination and support for the UW System LGBTQ+ Resource Center Directors

  and Sexual Violence Prevention coordinators and liaisons; planning statewide meetings

  and developing an LGBTQ+ equity agenda in consultation with the members of the LGBTQ+ Center Directors and the associate Vice-President for the Office of IDEASS. Provide support to Senior Student Affairs Officers and UWS Student Government representatives. Administer and provide staff support for UW System award programs

  including the Women of Color and P.B. Poorman Awards.

  Senior Academic Planner

  LGBTQ+ Programs & Student Affairs

  University of Wisconsin System

  Serves as the principal leader of the organization and partner\nwith other members of the Executive Board to advance the organization's mission. The Chair\nprovides leadership in strategic planning and evaluate the performance of the organization in achieving its mission and goals. Key responsibilities include supporting the board

  addressing\nmembers’ concerns

  and representing the Consortium to certain external constituencies.

  Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals

  Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals

  Co-Chair

• 2005

  M.A.

  Education

• 2003

  Ph.D.

  Chair

  Graduate Students' Advisory Committee\nMLK Celebration Committee

  Educational Leadership

  Western Michigan University

• 2002

  Western Michigan University

  Northwestern University

  Mount Royal University

  Duties included: coordinating and improving all aspects of the Western Michigan University Leadership Institute; developing and facilitating five major leadership workshops; training student and staff facilitators; publicizing and recruiting for student leadership development workshops; advising the Keystone Leadership Society and Golden Key International Honour Society. In addition

  acted as a part of the Student Activities & Leadership Programs leadership team in assisting with Bronco Days (first year student orientation)

  Bronco Bash

  Homecoming and all other campus-wide programs.

  Western Michigan University

  Mount Royal University

  Duties included: devising syllabi; selecting reading materials; preparation and delivery of lectures; facilitating discussions

  and evaluation of student work for GNED 1201: Aesthetic Interpretation and Ideas (Exploring Men and Masculinities); GNED 1303: Conflict and the Social Context (LGBTQ+ Civil Rights from Stonewall to Sochi); GNED 1304: Communities and Societies (Trans* Identities); WMST 2239: Gender

  Race

  and Popular Culture; and HIST 2291: Film and History (LGBTQ+ Films).

  Contract Faculty

  Calgary

  Canada Area

  Evanston

  Ilinois

  Duties include: acting as the advisor to 20 social justice

  issue-based student organizations recognized by the Associated Student Government (ASG) and assisting in providing general advising support to other student organizations. Reviewing and coordinating the processing of contracts relating to programs which include addressing all financial safety and security

  facility and risk management issues and overseeing the development of budgets and financial processes for related events

  activities and programs. In addition acts as the coordinator of the LGBT Resource Center and is responsible for the development

  coordination and implementation of LGBT educational

  social

  and ally programs through the Center

  including: Straight But Not Narrow

  Safe Space

  Transgender Ally

  and Social Justice Ally trainings. Additional duties include: providing referrals to LGBT resources on- and off-campus

  coalition work in the wider Chicago community

  and providing development opportunities and programs for learning for all members of the Northwestern University community. Field instructor to graduate interns placed in the office as well as undergraduate work-study students.

  Coordinator

  Student Organizations for Social Justice & LGBT Resource Center

  Northwestern University

• 1994

  MA

  History

• 1990

  BA

  Art History

• 1987

  UT

  Arts & Sciences

• June 16 Presentation

  Presentation to Sodexo PRIDE Employee Network Group

  June 16 Presentation

  HIST 2291 - Hollywood Goes Gay - 2000s

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  June 16 Presentation

  Presentation to Sodexo PRIDE Employee Network Group

  June 16 Presentation

  Community Outreach

  Negotiation

  Student Affairs

  Leadership Development

  Higher Education

  Program Development

  Grant Writing

  Budgets

  Event Planning

  Training

  Public Speaking

  Legal Advice

  Research

  Volunteer Management

  Teaching

  Social Justice

  Leadership

  Nonprofits

  Non-profits

  Social Media

  Transgender people at four big ten campuses: A policy discourse analysis

  This article examines the language used to discuss transgender people on university campuses. This study asks how

  despite seemingly benefitting transgender people

  the discourses carried by the documents that discuss trans people may actually undermine the intended goals of policy initiatives. For example

  a report on the status of transgender people may use language depicting them as vulnerable or as disabled

  even as it strives to make the university more welcoming to trans individuals. Understanding how language has been used to describe transgender people on university campuses may help institutions reflect on how to reframe equity work to become more inclusive of trans people.

  Transgender people at four big ten campuses: A policy discourse analysis

  In 1967

  when abortion was either illegal or highly restricted in every U.S. state

  a group of ministers and rabbis formed to counsel women with unwanted pregnancies—including referral to licensed physicians willing to perform the procedure. By 1973

  when the Roe v. Wade court decision made abortion legal nationwide

  the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion (CCS) had spread from coast to coast

  referred hundreds of thousands of women for safe abortions without a single fatality

  become a medical consumer advocacy group

  and opened its own clinic in New York City.\n\nAs religious leaders spoke out on issues of civil rights

  peace

  or poverty

  CCS members were also called to action by the suffering of women who had approached them for help. Overwhelmingly male

  white

  affluent

  and middle-aged

  these mainline Protestant and Jewish clergy were nonetheless outspoken advocates for the rights of women

  particularly poor women. To Offer Compassion is a detailed history of this unique and largely forgotten movement

  drawing on extensive interviews with original participants and on primary documents from the CCS’s operations.

  To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion

  I have developed

  implemented

  facilitated

  and assessed the efficacy of dozens of educational programs on social justice and LGBTQ+ topics for thousands of participants. I have also spent 25 years working and volunteering for a variety of educational and non-profit organizations; my advocacy work has demonstrated a commitment to social justice and has fostered a passion for community service and education. Professional and volunteer experiences have afforded me leadership and management skills

  including: strategic planning

  lobbying

  coalition building

  and scrupulous financial management. Additionally

  through my studies and teaching at the university-level

  I have developed excellent research

  written and oral communication skills. Finally

  I have contributed regularly to committees and boards that provided leadership and vision for the institutions and non-profit organizations that I have served.\n\nSpecialties: advocacy

  advising

  lobbying

  negotiation

  written and verbal communication skills

  budget management

  research

  educational program development

  social justice education

  leadership theory and practice

  D.A.

  Dirks

  Mount Royal University

  University of Wisconsin System

  Western Michigan University