2014 King County LGBTQ Access Summit program

JUNE 12 & 13

2014 LGBTQ ACCESS SUMMIT >> KING COUNTY GEORGETOWN CAMPUS

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SNAPSHOT AGENDA THURSDAY JUNE 12 2014 8:30A

Registration Opens

WELCOMING PLENARY 9:00A 10:15A

A Regional Response to LGBTQ Access with Kristin Tucker & Sid Jordan Peterson

WORKSHOPS SESSION #1 • Coming Back to Life: A Trauma and Healing Framework for Providers • Community Produced! the Making of a Trans* Resource & Referral Guide for King County • How to Not Stop at an Intersection • OutSpoken Speakers Bureau: Community Education & Storytelling • You Better Work: Human Resources & Organizational Culture

10:30ANOON

LUNCH UNFORTUNATELY NOT PROVIDED

NOON 1:00P 3:15P

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE FAIR & ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WORKSHOPS & ROUNDTABLES SESSION #2

3:30P5:00P

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Creative Approaches to Empowerment (for LGBTQ attendees) LGBTQ Homeless Youth Roundtable Questions from the Margins: Queer & Trans* Asian Pacific Islander Community-Responses to Violence Training the Trainer: Building Organizational Resources for Gender & Sexuality Education Working with LGBTQ Survivors of Sexual Violence: Considerations for Advocates

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FRIDAY JUNE 13 2014 8:30A

Registration Opens

WELCOMING PLENARY 9:00A 10:15A

Social Service to Social Change with Dr. Valli Kalei Kanuha

WORKSHOPS & ROUNDTABLES SESSION #3 10:30ANOON

NOON

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BGLAD After All These Years: Queer Youth Support Groups Healthcare Access & Self Advocacy Roundtable Legal Protections for LGBTQ Survivors of Violence Serving LGBTQ Latino Clients: Intersection of Culture & Identity Transformative Queer Economic Justice Roundtable

LUNCH UNFORTUNATELY NOT PROVIDED WORKSHOPS & ROUNDTABLES SESSION #4

1:15P 2:45P

3:00P5:00PM

• Diagnosing Difference film screening & discussion • Dialogue on Innovative Prevention Strategies • Framing ‘Violence Against Women’: Feminist Histories, Racial Justice, and LGBT Inclusion in an Era of Mass Incarceration • Housing Access Strategies Roundtable • ‘Safer Sex’: Promoting Healthy & Positive Sex/Sexuality With/For Queer Young People

STRATEGY SESSIONS & QYN VISIONING & SUMMIT CLOSING

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SESSION #1 THURSDAY JUNE 12 >> 10:30a - NOON ROOM 111

Coming Back to Life: A Trauma and Healing Framework for Providers with Nathaniel Shara

This interactive session will focus on the impacts of trauma and oppression, and holistic approaches for working with traumatized and marginalized populations.

Drawing from research on traumatic stress, resilience, the mind-body relationship, and compassion, this workshop will offer a strengths-based paradigm for supporting survivors (and ourselves!) to cultivate safety, connection, hope and balance in the aftermath of abuse. This workshop centers the experiences of LGBTQ survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, and will emphasize the ongoing impacts of both: intimate violence, as well as the social context of homophobia, transphobia and sexism, along with other systems of oppression.

ROOM 207

Community Produced!

Making a Trans* Resource & Referral Guide for King County with Jesse Benet, Michael Volz, Sid J. Peterson, & Ro Yoon

Seattle is an epicenter for trans* art, culture, and politics. Yet navigating basic services, such as healthcare, education, employment, and housing can present significant barriers for trans* people and communities. The 2014 King County Trans* Resource & Referral Guide was created by trans* advocates and service providers with our colleagues and communities in mind. Meet some of the advocates who put together the project who will discuss some of the ongoing barriers and challenges for trans* people seeking services in King County. This session will also cover some basic trans* advocacy strategies, and share lessons learned from the making of this community produced guide.Â

ROOM 110

How to Not Stop at an Intersection with Amber Tejada

We all have multitudes of identities that make up a vast network of intersections related to our race, class, age, dis/ability, etc. For those who are accessing services, we know that meeting people where they are at is the only way to meaningfully provide appropriate and effective services. Survivors of assault/violence are often asked to compartmentalize their lived experiences in order to access care. Is the recognition of the vastness of queer and trans* people's full and rich lives missing in the provision of services for LGBTQ survivors? If so what can we do to solve this problem?

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OutSpoken Speakers Bureau: MAIN ROOM

Community Education & Storytelling with Ben Crowther, Lindsey Chen, Mario Lemafa, & Montrai Williams Moderated by: Tracy Flynn

The OutSpoken Speakers Bureau is a diverse group of LGBTQ and allied youth and adults dedicated to challenging oppression and violence through community education and story telling. OutSpoken Speakers has been organizing panels of LGBTQ youth to speak about their knowledge and experiences to school and community groups for over 20 years. This is an opportunity to hear about the lives of queer and trans young people living at the intersection of oppressions and about their resilience as survivors and teachers.

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You Better Work Human Resources & Organizational Culture with Connie Burk

This workshop will introduce participants to keystone policies and practices that prohibit discrimination and promote an equitable and welcoming work environment for LGBTQ people. The workshop will including recommendations in practice and tools for non-discrimination, human resources, and workplace culture.

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE FAIR MAIN ROOM

THURSDAY JUNE 12 >> 1:15p - 3:15p

Join King County organizations opportunity to meet each other, share information, and showcase some of the organizational change efforts made as part of the LGBTQ Access Project. In our constantly changing and ever-evolving social service system in King County, we know the most effective referrals for critical services for LGBTQ survivors are often based on relationships, as well as having a clear understanding of what an organization does, who it serves, and what it might have to offer right now.

Learn more about access LGBTQ access efforts happening now at the following organizations: Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services, Asian Counseling & Referral Service, Asian Pacific Islander Chaya, Center for Human Services, Consejo Counseling & Referral Service, Crisis Clinic, The DoVE Project, DAWN, Friends of Youth, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, King County’s Protection Order Advocacy Program, R.O.O.T.S. Young Adult Shelter, Youthcare and YWCA. The roundtable discussion will feature five organizations involved with the LGBTQ Access Project’s Pace-Setter Program. Hear more about the successes and lessons learned at: API Chaya (Sarah Rizvi), Crisis Clinic (Brannon Mark), DAWN (Síle Grace), King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (Mo Lewis), and King County’s 5 Protection Order Advocacy Program (Sandra Shanahan).

SESSION #2 THURSDAY JUNE 12 >> 3:30p - 5p ROOM 208

Creative Approaches to Empowerment (for LGBTQ attendees) with Zachary Pullin & Stacy Kitahata

Building community and solidarity across agencies and organizations is vital to the health of our human services provider network. For those we serve, providing culturally responsive care and support must be the model for the connections we build within our agency and with colleagues in our field. LGBTQ human service providers often feel tokenized, isolated, or singled-out – with collaboration we will discover creative approaches to empowering non-queer colleagues to practice inclusion in the work, and how to be allies in that process. We will explore what community means, surviving in this work, and simple approaches to collaboration across different identities. This session is only open to LGBTQ attendees.

MAIN ROOM

LGBTQ Homeless Youth Roundtable with Shannon Perez-Darby

There’s a lot going on! According to the 2014 King County “Count Us In” numbers, 23% of homeless youth in the county identify as LGBT, and while the numbers vary region to region, we know that LGBTQ youth are greatly overrepresented among homeless youth populations nationally. Join regional leaders to discuss how we can work together to address the full spectrum of need and support for LGBTQ homeless youth. Additional discussion topics will include the King County Comprehensive Plan to Address Youth and Young Adult Homelessness and its impact on the lives of LGBTQ homeless youth as well the newly launched Project Glitter, a capacity building project for King County homeless youth services providers.

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ROOM 207

Questions from the Margins: Queer & Trans* API Community-Responses to Violence with Lils Fujikawa

In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about some of the key themes, ideas, and critical questions that have emerged from LGBTQ Asian Pacific Islander communities regarding understanding and responding to intimate violence (both in addressing the barriers and challenges our communities face as well as celebrating the resilient and creative ways our communities are navigating, resisting and healing intrapersonal and institutional violence). Further, this workshop will engage participants regarding some of the ways that addressing intimate violence in LGBTQ API communities may challenge and complicate traditional approaches to antiviolence work. We’ll talk about community accountability/transformative justice and API Chaya’s model for community organizing within LGBTQ API communities. While we will touch on the importance of culturally relevant services for LGBTQ API communities, the focus of this workshop will be less about how to make programs cultural competent, and more about the centering the experiences and collective wisdom of LGBTQ API communities and individuals.

ROOM 111

Train the Trainers: Building Organizational Resources for Gender & Sexuality Ed. with Kristin Tucker & Sid Jordan Peterson

A session focused on how to incorporate gender and sexuality education into your organization's staff and volunteer training protocols and strategies. This session will provide ideas and examples for institutionalizing ongoing education on gender and sexuality themes. We will consider strategies for deepening workplace conversations about the impacts and implications of systemic oppression on both our workplace culture and service delivery. This session is a good fit for providers who may formally (or informally) participate in organizing or delivering staff training or those who work in human resources. Come prepared to learn training tips, share your own ideas & strategies, and have fun!

ROOM 110

Working with LGBTQ Survivors of Sexual Violence: Considerations for Advocates with Amarinthia Torres

This workshop will focus on building awareness of the cultural context and experiences of LGBTQ survivors of sexual violence, and offer strategies for providing meaningful, inclusive, and culturally sensitive advocacy. Intersections of homophobia, transphobia & sexual assault will be discussed as well as barriers LGBTQ survivors may face when navigating various systems. We will share highlights and takeaways from the NW Network's sexual assault support group,Thriving While Healing: Finding Joy, Resilience, & Support in the Aftermath of Sexual Assault.

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SESSION #3 FRIDAY JUNE 13 >> 10:30a - Noon ROOM 207

BGLAD After All These Years: Queer Youth Support Groups with Cat Cunningham & Megan Kennedy

Learn more of the story behind our region's oldest support groups for queer youth.

BGLAD facilitators Kennedy and Cat will discuss their role as facilitators, the format and structure of the group, and tips for folks interested in starting a queer youth support group in their community or organization. This workshop will utilize experiential methods of learning, as well as media and discussion.

ROOM 110

Healthcare Access & Self-Advocacy Roundtable with Canelli, Danielle Askini, Genya Shimkin Moderated by: DeAnn Alcantara-Thompson

This roundtable will address some of the key barriers to accessing quality healthcare - particularly for trans* communities and LGBTQ youth. From insurance exclusions and provider gatekeeping, to issues of confidentiality and coming out in healthcare settings, local organizers and advocates will discuss some of today's pressing issues and share tools for advocates and self-advocates to help improve health outcomes.

ROOM 208

Legal Protections for LGBTQ Survivors of Violence with David Ward & Denise Diskin

This session is a co-presentation on family law, employment law, and tenant protections that apply to LGBTQ survivors of domestic violence. This session will also touch on the legal procedures common to accessing those protections. The workshop will briefly cover a range of issues from: emergency and long-term establishment of parentage, child custody, and division of property; statutory protections for employees; and tenant protections for survivors of violence. This workshop will address how to access free legal resources, how to find an attorney, what types of fees to expect, and some basic court procedures to solve problems common to survivors of violence.

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ROOM 111

Serving LGBTQ Latino Clients: Intersection of Culture and Identity with Martha Zuniga & Roxana Pardo Garcia

This workshop is for social service providers who work with Latino clients who are LGBTQ; or who fall outside the norms of gender and sexual orientation. We acknowledge there are queer people in the Latino community and they are a diverse group and deserve excellent services from providers. This session will cover basics and also include a round table discussion to draw from the experiences of those in attendance and work toward a set of best practices for providing effective service to LGBTQ Latino clients.

MAIN ROOM

Transformative Queer Economic Justice with Jacque Larrainzar, Jeanne Cameron, and Sabina Neem Moderated by: Debbie Carlsen

This session will address the importance of allied-work in the LGBTQ community to address economic, racial and gender justice. The session will address why working in solidarity across issues, institutions, and movements are important to tackling the issues of oppression experienced by the most marginalized in the LGBTQ community, and will present past models of allyship that have worked in the LGBTQ community.

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SESSION #4 FRIDAY JUNE 13 >> 1:15p - 2:45p MAIN ROOM

Diagnosing Difference: film screening & discussion hosted by Canelli

Diagnosing Difference is a feature-length documentary film featuring interviews with 13 diverse scholars, activists, and artists who identify on the trans spectrum (transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, and gender variant) about the impact and implications of the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) on their lives and communities.

This workshop will offer a free screening of the film, followed by a discussion focused on informed consent as a standard of care.

ROOM 208

Dialogue on Innovative Prevention Strategies with DeAnn Alcantara-Thompson

Join us for this conversation about the Relationship Skills Class, our Queer Family Programing, and strategies to incorporate relationship skills work into your prevention and community engagement. This presentation will include a brief history of the Relationship Skills Class, examples from our Relationship Skills Class curriculum, and making connections between community engagement and anti-violence movement work. Share about the prevention strategies and tools you are using at your organizations: What’s working? What you want to improve? What are you big dreams for prevention work? How do you want to get there?

Framing ‘Violence Against Women’: ROOM 110

Feminist Histories, Racial Justice, and LGBT inclusion in an Era of Mass Incarceration with Angélica Cházaro, Kalei Kanuha, and Emily Thuma

Join practitioners, activists and scholars, for a conversation about the history of the U.S.-based feminist anti-violence movement and the politics of race, sexuality, criminalization, and imprisonment.

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Making Shelter!

ROOM 111

Housing Access Strategies Roundtable with Kelsey Mussman & Maria Williams (Lifewire), Levi Dineson & Ryan Yanke (Downtown Emergency Service Center), Mollie Beebe & Jacob Stuivenga (R.O.O.T.S. Young Adult Shelter) Moderated by: Leah Gustitus

Access to shelter and housing programs is a challenge in King County - particularly for LGBTQ survivors of violence, queer and trans young people, and trans* adults and their families. This roundtable will bring together King County practitioners to offer sample strategies for increasing access and self-determination - from Housing First, to non-traditional models of shelter, to creatively managing incidents of bias and discrimination in shelter. Attendees and discussants will discuss opportunities, gaps in services, and ongoing challenges with shelter and housing services for LGBTQ individuals and communities.

Safer Sex’: ROOM 207

Promoting Healthy & Positive Sex/Sexuality With/For Queer Young People with Mike Barnes & Todd Hull

We all know sex should be fun, consensual, and safe—all three, always! However, this is not always the case particularly for queer young people navigating often times navigating uncharted territory. HEYO’s Safer Sex workshop seeks to approach sex and sexuality through an encompassing queer lens and provide tools for young people to take the steps to reduce risky sexual behavior, negotiate sexual behaviors that are healthy and safe, and avoid potentially compromising sexual encounters.

This workshop is aimed at people who serve youth and young adults with a focus on reducing stigma around sex, sexual health, and HIV/AIDS & STDs. The goal of this workshop is to give provider the knowledge to be critical, informed sexual health educators and to open up honest dialogue around sex & sexual health in service provision settings.

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STRATEGY SESSIONS FRIDAY JUNE 13 >> 3p - 4:00p ROOMS TBA

STRATEGY SESSIONS hosted by field practitioners

During this culminating session, attendees to work together to identify possible next steps for learning and action. Strategy Sessions will be facilitated sessions broken out by provider role and service area, including a session for Executive Leadership / Program Directors, Clinicians, Housing/Shelter providers, and more.

Facilitators will lead attendees in a series of dialogic activities to draw on lessons learned from various workshops during the two day Summit and identify directions and ongoing challenges in the region and in the field. Sessions aim to ignite new relationships and deepen existing ties between organizations that may face similar challenges.

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Queer Youth Network Strategy Session hosted by Lulu Carpenter and Hatlo

Queer Youth Network (QYN pronounced “Queen”) creates spaces for people that work within queer youth communities such as youth leaders, social service providers, artists, activists, community organizers and others that center their work on queer young people within the Seattle Metro area, King County, and surrounding counties. We come together to snack, skillshare, get to know each other, share updates, and put a face to the programs that are shifting our communities. Meetings are facilitated strategy sessions to create a vision around forwarding our collective work and building stronger alliances to create that vision. During this session, participants will map the present landscape of where LGBTQ individuals, community programs and social services currently operate.

As the workshop unfolds, we will move to a visionary strategy using the “Emergent Strategies” methodology created by adrienne marie brown. There will be interactive dialogues to support participants dreaming past the daily obstacles of tomorrow, so we can move from the vision we would all like to exist in. The collective vision will be brought to future QYN gatherings.

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PRESENTER BIOS Angélica Cházaro is a visiting assistant professor at University of Washington School of Law, where she teaches poverty law and critical race theory. Prior to joining the UW faculty, Angélica was a New Voices Fellow and staff attorney at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project focusing her practice on representing immigrant survivors of violence and immigrants affected by the criminal legal system. She previously taught poverty law and immigration law at Seattle University School of Law and served on the boards of the Third Wave Foundation and the New Voices fellowship program. She organizes against the prison industrial complex as a member of Washington Incarceration Stops Here, a Seattle-based community group. She is a first generation immigrant from México.

Amarinthia Torres is the Community Advocate Program Manager for The NW Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian, and Gay Survivors of Abuse. She works with LGBTQ survivors of sexual and domestic violence, co-facilitates weekly support groups, and manages the adult community advocacy program. After living most of her life in various small towns and cities in the rural South, Amarinthia moved to Seattle from Atlanta, Georgia in 2010. Her professional experience over the last 10 years has centered on work within the anti-sexual violence movement. Her work has included advocacy, program coordination, supervision of volunteer advocates, primary prevention education, and community based trainings. More recently, Amarinthia worked at the Georgia Commission on Family Violence, an agency created by the state legislature to address and reduce the occurrence of domestic violence in the state of Georgia.

Amarinthia earned a BA in Sociology/Anthropology with a minor in Women’s Studies from Berry College in Rome, GA. Amber Tejada has worked in social service related fields for the past 15 years. She began her career at Bradley-Angle House in Portland, OR first as an emergency shelter volunteer and then as a youth/trainer/advocate. She is currently coordinating clinical services at Gay City Health Project in Seattle. She is deeply committed to seeing social change manifest through the provision of social services through a framework of social justice theory and harm reduction techniques.

Ben Crowther is a recent college grad resettling his roots in Seattle. He's a news junkie, an educator, queer, and passionately supports anti-violence work.

Canelli is a therapist and activist in Seattle, Washington. He advocates that informed consent be the standard of care for all medical health needs of transgender and gender nonconforming people (icath.org).

Cat Cunningham, MSW is a social worker and counselor who works with youth, families and adults. Cat provides chemical dependency services in Seattle and on the Eastside, and has worked with BGLAD for two years.

Connie Burk co-founded the first regional LGBT survivor services in Kansas over 20 years ago. Since 1997, she has directed The Northwest Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse in Seattle, WA. She is the co-author of Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, an executive producer of the award winning documentary film, A Lot Like You, and a contributing author to the anthology, The Revolution Starts at Home. Connie trains internationally on community engagement, domestic abuse and prevention strategies, and taking the “crisis” out of crisis response organizations. Her work in the LGBT community developed her expertise in assessment, survivors’ use of violence, working with survivors’ friends and families, working with men, community engagement strategies and related issues. She has focused particular attention on strengthening alliances among marginalized communities while centering liberation values in her work.

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PRESENTER BIOS Danielle Askini is a social worker, activist, Trans Feminist, and founding executive director of Gender Justice League - a Trans* Activist collective based in Seattle, Washington. Danielle was instrumental in the creation of the first Transgender medicine course taught at a major medical school in America, worked to change Sweden's law regarding gender reassignment, and worked hard to help pass the California FAIR education act - requiring LGBT inclusive curriculum in all California schools, while National Program Director at Gay-Straight Alliance Network in San Francisco.

David Ward is legal and legislative counsel at Legal Voice, where his areas of responsibility include LGBT issues, gender violence, and family law. He also currently serves on the board of the QLaw Foundation and as a member of the Washington Supreme Court’s Gender and Justice Commission. Before joining Legal Voice, David served as the legislative liaison for the Washington State Bar Association. He also worked as an associate at Heller Ehrman LLP, as a staff attorney at the Access to Justice Institute at Seattle University School of Law, and as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman. During law school, he served as an intern at Lambda Legal in New York. David is a graduate of Yale Law School and Trinity University.

Debbie Carlsen is the Executive Director and Founder of LGBTQ Allyship. Debbie has been engaging in conversations around allies and allyship since the inception of LGBTQ Allyship in 2005 and has led programming engaging in solidarity work in the immigrant rights, economic justice/labor, health care, senior and homeless youth community as an out LGBTQ individual and organization. She has been a long-time activist and organizer in the LGBTQ, peace, environmental, economic, racial and gender justice movements. She is an artist and believes passionately in the inspiration of art and politics in all movements.

DeAnn Alcantara-Thompson joined the NW Network in 2007 coming from working at the New Beginnings DV Shelter Program, the eldest program of its kind in the region. She directs the Queer Parent Networking Dinners and the Relationship Skills Classes, cornerstones of NW acclaimed community engagement activities. She coordinated the development of the Relationship Skills Class Curriculum and People of Color edition of the Relationship Skills Class. DeAnn started her career in the movement in 2001 as a volunteer at a Women’s shelter while in college and worked at the University of Washington Women’s Center.

Denise Diskin is an associate at Teller & Associates, PLLC, where she litigates on behalf of individuals facing discrimination in the workplace, as well as families experiencing divorce and negotiating child custody. She represents individuals in unemployment appeals, discrimination litigation, and family law proceedings. She frequently represents gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and genderqueer or non-conforming clients and survivors of sex or gender-based harassment and domestic violence. Prior to joining Teller & Associates, Denise graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law, then was the principal attorney of the Law Office of J. Denise Diskin. Ms. Diskin chaired the QLaw Foundation GLBT Legal Clinic Committee and served on the QLaw Foundation Board from 2010-2013. She speaks frequently about employment discrimination and LGBTQ access to the legal system, and has presented to the Washington State Human Rights Commission, Washington Employment Lawyers Association, the Pacific Coast Labor and Employment Law Conference, the Washington State Bar Association, and the King County Bar Association.

Emily Thuma is a researcher and educator working on issues of gender and sexual violence, racial justice, policing, and incarceration. She currently teaches gender, sexuality, and American and ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell.

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Genya Shimkin came to Seattle in 2011 to pursue a Master's Degree in Community-Oriented Public Health Practice at the University of Washington. Her research and practice primarily focus on LGBTQ health and health care disparities, HIV prevention and education, and harm reduction. She is the founder of The Q Card: Empowering Queer Youth in Healthcare, a project designed to improve relationships and communication between queer youth and healthcare providers. Genya has worked on a range of community-based public health projects in New York, Maryland, and Washington. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Human Rights and Russian Studies from Bard College. In her free time, you can find her volunteering with queer youth, shopping for bow ties, drinking ginger beer, or eating sweets.

Hatlo does anti-oppression work focusing on queer youth and young adult homelessness.

Currently, they are a support coordinator at Teen Feed offering basic needs case management and outreach to youth experiencing homelessness in the University District. Hatlo is the cochair of Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness' (SKCCH) Youth and Young Adult Committee. Previously, Hatlo was the program coordinator of HEYO, the youth HIV prevention program at Lifelong AIDS Alliance. Hatlo helped found Queer Teen Ensemble Theatre (QTET) in 2007 and has directed the program from 2008 - 2013. Hatlo began organizing the Queer Youth Network (QYN, pronounced Queen!) in 2012 with Luzviminda 'Lulu' Uzuri Carpenter and Rafael Velazquez.

Jacque Larrainzar is the Seattle Office for Civil Rights Outreach and Engagement Manager Jacque joined the Seattle Office for Civil Rights in 2000. Since then she has worked on many issues related to the LGBT community including hate crimes, Bullying, transgender healthcare coverage, racism in the LGBT community, immigration issues, domestic partnerships and marriage equality. Jacque has served on the boards of many LGBTQ organizations and helped start UNID@S a Latino LGBT Human Rights national organization. Most recently she served in the board of Allyship and participated in the organization’s efforts to promote economic equity for LGBTQI people. In her free time, Jacque performs as a musician and works to promote the well-being of her communities through art and music and music therapy.

Jacob Stuivenga is an Overnight Counselor at R.O.O.T.S. Young Adult Shelter, where they participate in and support anti-oppression work through the organization’s Change Team. They designed and earned a Bachelor’s concentration in film production and critical theory at Antioch University and begin graduate studies at the University of Washington’s School of Social Work in fall 2014. As an independent filmmaker, Jacob is dedicated to social change and advocacy through empowerment, creative expression, and education. They are currently directing an educational film, Brave Voices, in collaboration with LifeWire to highlight teen perspectives on dating violence and promote prevention through self-determination.

Jeanne Cameron is a Lead Organizer with UNITE HERE! Local 8, the Northwest's hospitality workers' union. She has been organizing hotel, restaurant and food service workers for 9 years and has worked on the current Space Needle campaign. She joined the Allyship board in 2013. Jeanne is originally from Chicago and lives in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood.

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PRESENTER BIOS Jesse Benet is currently a Project/Program Manager III with the King County MHCADSD working in the Criminal Justice Initiatives (CJI) Project and has worked in the CJI since 2003 in some capacity (direct services in the King County jail until 2007). Jesse completed an M.A. degree in Psychology in 2002 at Humboldt State University and is a LMHC in the State of Washington. Jesse has over 17 years’ experience working in the mental health human services field and has worked as a direct service provider and administrative roles, as he is now in. Jesse serves on the King County Dept. of Community and Human Services Equity and Social Justice leadership team and is committed to systemically addressing racial, gender, ability, economic and citizenship disparities across justice and services in King County.

Outside of his role with King County, Jesse is the co-founder and co-host of a Seattle-based podcast, Gendercast, an independent media focused on trans* identity, intersections of oppression and queer politics. Jesse also coordinates projects and leadership development for Gender Justice League, a Seattle based trans* activist collective.

Kelsey Mussman is the Community Advocacy Program Manager at LifeWire in Bellevue.

Kelsey earned both a Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare and Master of Social Work from the University of Washington where she was a graduate student assistant at the Q Center, a program for LGBTQ students. During her graduate work, Kelsey participated in an internship with the Northwest Network for BLTG Survivors of Abuse. Kelsey has been with LifeWire for four years, where she has also coordinated the volunteer program and supervised graduate interns. Currently Kelsey supervises direct service staff who provide community based advocacy services to survivors of domestic violence.

Kennedy, MA, LMHC as been facilitating the BGLAD support group at Youth Eastside Services for almost a decade. Kennedy provides individual and family counseling to queer youth and co-produced and directed PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} - a 35 minute documentary made in partnership with the Youth Eastside Services' BGLAD program.

Kristin Tucker, NW Network, National TTA Projects Manager, came to the NW Network in 2002 with experience as a community organizer, educator and counselor in areas as diverse as DV, chemical dependency, LGBTQ issues, rape crisis and economic justice. Kristin coordinates national technical assistance and training projects at the Network. She brings a unique brand of creative, quick-thinking expertise, critical analysis of DV, and particular strengths in facilitation, curriculum development, and presentation skills. Kristin has experience developing and implementing broad-based public awareness campaigns. She is a skilled trainer, presenting nationally on issues of violence, politics, identity and organizing in rural LGBTQ communities. Kristin is widely published on the topics of LGBTQ gender identities and the politics of visibility.

Levi Dineson graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a double major in Feminist Studies and Literature. Levi has been working for DESC since 2007 and is currently the Project Manager for DESC's newest location in West Seattle, Cottage Grove Commons.

Lils Fujikawa is the Queer Network Program Coordinator at API Chaya. She is a genderfabulous, mixed-race activist who became politicized in Southern California through antiviolence organizing and 90s punk. Lils' is currently interested in issues impacting Queer People of Color, Trans* Justice, nikkei* identity and community accountability. *(Nikkei refers to people of Japanese decent).

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Lindsey Chen is 23 years old with roots in Seattle, Southern California, Myanmar, and China.

She identifies as queer, pansexual, and polyamorous. She is a social worker and activist in Seattle's Asian Pacific community. She enjoys dancing, playing the trombone, growing food, and having deep, intentional, sweet conversations.

Luzviminda Uzuri Carpenter aka Lulu, works for Historic Seattle as the Operations Manager and Consultant on the Oral History Project at Washington Hall. In her free time, she curates and produces cultural shows through Uzuri* Consulting & Productions and a collective called Green Bodies with other fierce queer womyn of color. In 2013 was appointmented by the Mayor's Office of the City of Seattle to the LGBT Commission. Lulu has worked with Ladies First Collective Organizing Committee (an anti-rape collective) and Pinay sa SeattleGABRIELA. Carpenter has also worked in the fields of intimate partner violence & sexual violence with the Asian Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) and recently through YouthCare Orion Center. She has honed her passion and skills for youth and young adult advocacy and mentorship for the past 8 years at Roots Young Adult Shelter, YouthSource, YouthCare, Franklin High School Political Science & Public Service Academy, the Service Board, Seattle Young People’s Project, and Seattle YouthSpeaks.

Mollie Beebe is an AmeriCorps member at ROOTS Young Adult Shelter. She graduated from Macalester College in 2013 with a major in Religious Studies and a minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. While receiving her B.A. she ran Macalester’s Gender and Sexuality Resource Center and interned with anti-violence organizations. She currently helps with antioppression work at ROOTS by helping to facilitate conversations with guests about race and racism and LGBTQ identities.

Maria Williams is the Housing Program Manager for LifeWire in Bellevue, WA. She has worked in the anti-violence movement for over 10 years, and strives to specialize in housing needs for marginalized populations who are facing violence, specifically chemically dependent women, immigrant families and queer folks. Maria works to build cohesive staff teams based on a trauma informed advocacy approach, and provides technical assistance to both domestic violence and housing programs across the country that are creating trauma informed programs. Maria is originally from Kansas and has worked in domestic violence shelters in Missouri, so she has a great appreciation for Midwestern charm and common sense.

Martha Zuniga has been providing social service support to the Latino LGBTQ community for more than ten years, and is presently a Case manager for Latinos living with HIV at Entre Hermanos.

Michael Volz is a Social Work student at the University of Washington and is doing his practicum with the Access Project at the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence. He currently works for Public Health in the King County Jail. Michael has worked within the jail diversion and reentry programs to assist those who are struggling with chemical dependency and mental health conditions navigate a system that is pushing to criminalize them. Between school, work, and general queer-dom, Michael’s daily success is often defined by the frequency in which he can work matte sequins into his outfit.

Mike Barnes is has been with working with the youth program at Lifelong AIDS Alliance for six months. He has been involved with LGBTQ youth spaces most recently in Atlanta, GA, and previously in Manchester, UK. Originally from Philadelphia, Mike graduated with a BA in Gender Studies from Temple University and completed a MSc in Sociological Research from the University of Manchester with a focus on sexuality/gender.

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PRESENTER BIOS Nathaniel Shara is a social justice therapist and community educator whose work focuses on integrating personal healing and social transformation. A graduate of the UW School of Social Work, Nathan has spent the last ten years working within communities of color and LGBTQ communities in a variety of roles and contexts. Integrating his experiences working in community mental health, domestic violence advocacy, and prevention education, Nathan creates a dynamic and experiential learning environment for participants to explore the ways that trauma, resilience, oppression and liberation manifest in their work, communities, their own lives, and society as a whole.

Ro Yoon is the community educator for the HIV Vaccine Trials Unit, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in Seattle, Washington. With over 20 years in HIV/AIDS research & prevention, Ro examines this issue through a wellness & social justice framework to advocate structural change to mobilize communities that are most affected. Ro is trans* and prefers feminine pronouns.

Roxana Pardo Garcia is a community organizer at Entre Hermanos and is also on the staff of the South King Council of Human Services. She has facilitated numerous workshops on Latino Queer Identities.

Ryan Yanke holds a masters degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Colorado State University. Ryan's previous works has covered a variety of issues that influence that lives of Trans* identified individuals across the life span. Ryan has worked at DESC for four years and is currently a Project Manager.

Sabina Neem is a bridge builder and community organizer. She has extensive experience as an administrator, therapist, social worker, trainer, researcher, grant writer, and advocate for policy change. Sabina is the Associate Director at the Seattle University Office of Multicultural Affairs where she recently received several awards from the students including 2012 Lavender Awards for Advancing Inclusion in Campus Life and 2012 Outstanding Group Leadership for InterSEXions. She is a proud advisor to the Diversity Equity & Education Program peer mentors who won Seattle University’s Best Program for Amplify Voices: Queer Justice Rally. She currently co-chairs the City of Seattle LGBT Commission and serves on the Advisory Board for Zenyu Healing and the National Advisory Board for the LGBTQ Access Project. Sabina has her B.A. in Anthropology from Barnard College, Columbia University and a dual master degree in Social Service/ Law and Social Policy from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.

Shannon Perez-Darby is the Youth Services Program Manager at The Northwest Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse. Under her guidance, the NW Network has developed a regional LGBT youth crime victims program serving LGBT youth who experience dating and family violence, sexual assault, trafficking, robbery, harassment, and a host of other victimizations. Bridging her work with youth and youth workers Shannon has developed an extensive LGBT youth technical assistance project focusing specifically on mandatory reporting issues, LGBTQ homeless youth, support for LGBT youth in the sex trades and LGBT youth dating violence issues. Shannon has a deep commitment to supporting LGBT youth to live fabulous lives by supporting youth leadership and self-determination.

Sid Jordan Peterson coordinates the LGBTQ Access Project, a 3-year demonstration project focused on increasing access to mainstream services in King County. Sid has worked across King County’s human services and arts sectors for 15 years, focusing on program design, organizational development, and multi-agency collaborations. Sid has also worked nationally as an educator and media-maker with the community-based project, Reteaching Gender & Sexuality.

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Stacy Kitahata is the Program Director at the Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship. Stacy develops experiential learning within an adaptive leadership context. She is an Associate with the Kaleidoscope Institute for Leadership in a Diverse Changing World and KI Northwest, as well as a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory. Stacy offers more than 25 years of global intercultural experience with organizations, communities and higher education from the International Counseling and Community Services in Seattle, the Portland Coalition of Community Organizations, to LGBTQ Advocacy retreats for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Todd Hull has been working in HIV prevention for nearly 14 years, first at Minnesota AIDS Project in Minneapolis, and for the past 9 years at Lifelong in Seattle. He is a 2010 graduate of the Institutes for HIV Prevention Leadership through the CDC, has presented workshops at multiple National Gay Men’s Health and LGBTI Health Summits, and has participated in the Gay Men’s Health Leadership Academy. In 2012 he received a Community Service award for his HIV prevention work from the Washington State Mr. and Mrs. Leather Organization.

Tracy Flynn has over 25 years of experience in management and leadership positions in local and national health, child welfare, and education institutions. Her mission is to provide training and coaching to build healthy organizations, and communities. Previous positions include Training Director with the National CASA Association, Director of Training with Planned Parenthood-Western Washington and Health Curriculum Specialist with Seattle Public Schools. Tracy currently works as an independent consultant, with clients that includeWelcoming Schools an anti-bias/gender inclusive program for K-12 schools, Wendy’s Wonderful Kids, a program of the Dave Thomas Foundation and the All Children All Families project of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Her expertise includes anti-bias and inclusion, leadership and management training, volunteer recruitment and engagement, individual and team coaching. Tracy has worked with the NW Network and youth panels for over a decade.

Valli Kalei Kanuha is Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Dr. Kanuha has worked as an activist, clinician, administrator, consultant and researcher with community health clinics, domestic violence programs, HIV/AIDS organizations, and other social service agencies in the continental U.S. and Hawai‘i for over 35 years. Her professional and research interests include violence against women of color, centering on Native Hawaiian, Pacific Island and Asian women; lesbian, gay and transgender/ mahu issues; and multicultural and antioppression theory/practice, all areas in which she has published and trained extensively. Kalei’s current community work focuses on development and evaluation of Native Hawaiian cultural interventions to address domestic, sexual and family violence in Hawaiian families. Kalei also serves on the boards of the Joyful Heart Foundation and the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center.

Zachary Pullin an enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy, Montana and a former Peace Corps volunteer, finds passion in service and illuminating how our myriad identities weave together. Currently the Communications Coordinator at the Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship, Zachary also works with Gay City hosting community conversation events for the Seattle LGBTQ community. In addition, he serves as a member of the Capitol Hill Community Council, Gender Justice League, and Northwest Two Spirits Society. Zachary has also spoken and led inclusion, access, intersectionality and community building workshops at universities throughout the country – from Emory University in Atlanta to Mills College in San Francisco; and, is a freelance writer for local and national publications such as, The Advocate, Native Peoples, Seattle Gay News, and sol-res.org.

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VENUE & ACCESS LOCATION: The venue is located at 6737 Corson Avenue S. Building C.

PARKING: There is a parking lot immediately adjacent to Building C. Parking passes are available at a kiosk for $3/day.

The Georgetown Campus is ADA compliant.

INTERPRETATION: All main sessions and several workshops sessions will be interpreted in American Sign Language. Session interpretation is made available on advanced request.

LOW-SCENT: Attendees and presenters are asked to refrain from wearing fragranced products (perfumes/cologne, fragranced personal care products, essential oils) to reduce environmental barriers for attendees. Info available online.

RESTROOMS: All gender access, multi-stall ADA compliant restrooms are available on the main floor.

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Entrance

Entrance C110

C111

Summit Registration Desk

Sitting Area

Entrance

Floor

C116

Parking Kiosk

Sitting Area

1st

Parking Lot

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C108 Kitchen

All Gender Restrooms

C208

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C207

Elevator

C222

Sitting Area

C212

Sitting Area

2nd Floor ! !

C103 Copy

Access Summit Main Room C122

C223

Legend: Important Locations

Open WIFI: SouthWirelessNetwork SouthWirelessNetwork Wifi Name: No password needed

Presentation Rooms Presenter Specific Areas Stairs

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Local Food Options Due to restrictions related to federal funding, we are not able to provide food at this event. This is not our ideal situation. We recommend people bring their own lunch, water bottles, and snacks. A kitchen area is available for presenters and interpreters to store and heat food. You are also welcome to order food for delivery to: 6737 Corson Avenue South, Seattle 98108 - Colin Education Hall

Area restaurants, food trucks, and coffee shops: Calozzi’s-- .1mile away Sandwiches-- $ (206) 762-1777 7016 E Marginal Way S Seattle 98108

Fonda La Catrina-- .7miles away Mexican-- $$ (206) 767-2787 5305 Airport Way S Seattle 98108 Hallava Falafel-- .7miles away Falafel, Food Truck-- $ (206) 307-4769 5825 Airport Way S Seattle 98108

Two Tartes Bakery-- .7miles away Bakeries, Caterers, Cafes-- $ (206) 767-8012 5629 Airport Way S Seattle 98108

Brass Tacks-- .6miles away Gastropubs, Bars-- $$ (206) 397-3821 6031 Airport Way S Seattle 98108

Katsu Burger-- .2miles away Burgers, Japanese-- $$ (206) 762-0752 6538 4th Ave S Seattle 98108

All City Coffee-- .6miles away Coffee & Tea-- $ (206) 767-7146 1205 S Vale St Seattle 98108

Runway-- .4miles away Cafés, American (New)-- $$ (206) 452-7659 1128 S Albro Pl Seattle 98108 Cutting Board-- .8miles away Japanese, Sushi Bars-- $$ (206) 767-8075 5503 Airport Way S Seattle 98108

Espresso By Design-- .7miles away Coffee & Tea, Breakfast & Brunch, Sandwiches-$ (206) 768-1061 511 S Mead St Seattle 98108

Pho LD-- .7miles away Vietnamese-- $ (206) 764-9528 5515 4th Ave S Seattle 98108

Maruta Shoten-- .5miles away Grocery, Delis, Ethnic Food-- $ (206) 767-5002 1024 S Bailey St Seattle 98108

Kauai Family Restaurant-- .3 miles away Hawaiian-- $ (206) 762-3469 6324 6th Ave S Seattle 98108

Georgetown Liquor Company-- .8miles away Vegetarian, Pubs, Breakfast & Brunch-- $$ (206) 763-6764 5501 Airport Way S Seattle 98108

Mikou Teriyaki-- .3miles away Japanese-- $ (206) 763-6000 6519 4th Ave S Seattle 98108 Ground Control-- .6miles away Bars, Cafes, Sandwiches-- $$ (206) 397-3821 6105 13th Ave S Seattle 98108 Hangar Care-- .5 miles away Breakfast & Brunch, Coffee & Tea, Creperies-- $ (206) 726-0204 6261 13th Ave S Seattle 98108

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The King County LGBTQ Access Summit is a one-time event produced as part of the LGBTQ Access Project - a 3-year demonstration initiative led by the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, in partnership with The Northwest Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse.

This document was produced by the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence funded under grant 2011-VFGZ- K014 awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, an conclusions or recommendations expressed in this document are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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