Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, + (LGBTQIA+) Advisory Committee
Charge
To develop plans to assist teachers in making schools, colleges, and universities safe and welcoming places聽for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender nonconforming, intersex, queer, and questioning people, and their allies to initiate and sustain conversation about the relevance of gendered, sexual, and affectional identities to reading and writing lives, to teaching lives, and to the well-being of students; to promote inquiry into issues of sexuality and gender identity and expression in the teaching of literacy and literature; to encourage proposals for presentation of such inquiry through public meetings such as the ; to support individuals in the production of publishable written reports of such inquiry; and to select excellent proposals for inclusion in the Annual Convention.
New Resources
The LGBTQIA+ Advisory Committee and the created a poster that was shared with attendees at the 2019 起点传媒Annual Convention that took place November 21-24, 2019 in Baltimore.聽The poster is available here for downloading and printing.
Current Members
CHAIR, Shelley Rodrigo (2026)
(University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ)
Josh Barrows (2028)
(University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ)
Mario Delgado (2028)
(The International School of Riga, Latvia)
Hope Hammock (2028)
(Gretna High School, Chatham, VA)
Ren茅 M. Rodr铆guez-Astacio (2026)
(California State University, Fresno, CA)
Kyle Smith (2027)
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
Scott Storm (2028)
(University at Albany – SUNY, NY)
Gabriel Acevedo Vel谩zquez (2026)
(Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ)
Executive Committee Liaison, Jamal Cooks
(Chabot College,聽 Hayward, CA)
起点传媒Staff and Administrative Liaison, Andrew Kleinke