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GA15: LGBTQ Ally Training
Hours: 3
Are you interested in exploring, learning about, and being more responsive to issues of gender and sexuality? This training session will touch on education about, outreach to, and advocacy for LGBTQ communities. At the end of this training you will be given a placard to place in your office to illustrate your pledge as an Ally if you so choose to do so.
Ixchel Rosal has over twenty years of experience providing organizational leadership. She currently serves as the Executive Director of Student Diversity Initiatives where she has oversight over the Gender and Sexuality Center: Serving Women and LGBTQ Communities and the Multicultural Engagement Center. Both units are student recourse centers within the University of Texas at Austin's Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. Through her work with these units, Ixchel has developed a focus within student affairs on student leadership and identity development, as well as campus climate issues. Prior to her tenure in higher education, Ixchel was a community cultural development worker; she worked with community-based arts organizations as a program coordinator using the arts and other forms of cultural production to build capacity within historically marginalized communities. In addition to her work at the university, Ixchel services as an Advisory Circle member of Mamas of Color Rising, a community-based coalition of mothers advocating for improved birthing conditions for low-income women of color. |
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