Workshop Session 8 • Saturday, February 7 Please check the grid chedule for room locations.
Federal Efforts to Achieve Safer Schools
Legislative/Policy Initiatives • All Audiences This workshop will examine current federal efforts around safe schools legislation, specifically related to anti-bullying and anti-harassment legislation. The importance of such legislation will be discussed, as well as current status, likely legislative initiatives and opportunities for progress. Presenters: Nathan Smith, Public Policy Manager, GLSEN, Washington, DC; Chris Hampton, Youth and Program Strategist, ACLU LGBT and HIV Project, New York, NY
How to Recruit for Your Board
Organizational Development • All Audiences Does your organization have a high functioning Board of Directors? Do you need more diversity, access to major donors or key skill sets missing from your current governance team? If so, how do you identify and attract good candidates beyond your existing networks? Our panel will discuss effective strategies for building a strong and well balanced board for your organization. Presenters: Joe McCormack, Managing Partner, WBB+McCormack, Los Angeles, CA; Michelle Kristel, Former Exective Director, In the Life; Morris Price, Denver, CO
The Psychology of Debunking LGBT Myths
Media, Communications, and Messaging • Intermediate Anti-discrimination laws infringe on religious liberty. Trans-inclusive restrooms result in sexual assault. Opposing homophobia is an affront to the First Amendment. Sound familiar? From the team that brought down Glenn Beck and takes on the right-wing noise machine led by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh comes a workshop to examine the psychology behind effectively combating myths about the fight for LGBT equality. Participants will learn about the science and best practices for debunking anti-LGBT misinformation. Presenters: Rebecca Lenn, Director of Outreach, Media Matters for America, Washington, DC; Zeke Stokes, Vice President of Programs, GLAAD, New York, NY; Danielle Moodie-Mills, Advisor, LGBT Policy and Racial Justice, Center for American Progress, Washington, DC
Influencing Skills for LGBT Leaders
Media, Communications, and Messaging • All Audiences Creating a Winning LGBT Brand: In this interactive workshop, participants will use a brand marketers toolkit to build their own winning brand for their organization, key initiatives or even themselves as LGBT leaders. By applying these skills that major brands, corporations and national non-profit organizations use to stand out from the
crowd and break through the noise, participants will learn how to identify the target audiences they serve, design a brand foundation of what they are or want to be known for, define key attributes that they want to be described as and develop a filter to execute everything from a visual identity to live events designed for their daily interactions. Presenters: Jayzen Patria, Executive Director, Talent Development, NBCUniversal, Universal City, CA
Coming Out Twice: Atheist and Queer
Movement Building • All Audiences This workshop will help attendees become familiar with important parallels – and differences – between coming out as LGBT and coming out as a non-believer. It is aimed at non-believers and believers. LGBT non-believers will discuss and practice methods of coming out as non-believers, both within the LGBT community and outside it. Believers will learn about the lived experience of LGBT non-believers, and will practice listening to “coming out atheist” stories with compassion and respect. Presenters: Greta Christina, Writer, Freethought Blogs, San Francisco, CA; Cara Zelaya, Regional Campus Organizer, Secular Student Alliance, Tallahassee, FL; Debbie Goddard, Outreach Director, Center for Inquiry, Buffalo, NY; Zack Ford, LGBT Editor, ThinkProgress, Washington, DC
Building Interracial Alliances
Movement Building • All Audiences This workshop provides participants with strategies for establishing and deepening relationships among LGBTQ leaders, allies, community members, and social justice movements. This interactive workshop focuses on developing the social justice leaders and long-term partnerships necessary to challenge issues of power, privilege and oppression comprehensively across our communities/region. Presenters: Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr., Founder and Director, White Privilege Conference, Greenwood VIllage, CO; Storme Lynn M.D., NM Equity and Social Justice Movement, Albuquerque, NM; Jordon Johnson, NM Equity and Social Justice Movement, Gallup, NM
The I Is Not Invisible
Movement Building • All Audiences The objective of this workshop is to educate and inform LGBTQIA communities about intersex identities, bring awareness to the different issues our community faces and to begin discussions around intersex inclusive LGBTQIA movements. Presenters: Axel Keating, Activist, Otter Activism, New York, NY
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