Webinar 2: Research and Campaigns focused on LGBTQ people and Education
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Nicole Young-Turner, Founder & Principal Consultant with Kaleidoscope Village, Co., Ian Siljestrom, Safe and Healthy Schools Associate Director with Equality Florida, and Brianna Jamison, LGBTQ Youth Activist (Chair, 2019 GSA Banneker High School) and Entrepreneur discuss research and Campaigns focused on LGBTQ people and Education as part of the LGBTQ Institute's annual symposium. Moderated by Ashlei Rabess M.A., LAPC, NCC, Doctoral student in the Counselor Education and Practice program at Georgia State University and LGBTQ Institute Fellow.
Featuring Expert Panelists:
Nicole Young-Turner
Nicole Young-Turner (her/hers), is the founder and chief consultant of Kaleidoscope Village, is a #Brave Educator, and a courageous advocate for elevating and empowering LGBTQIA2s+ communities of color and cultivating allyship. Her identity and lived experience as a Southern Black Queer Woman fuels her passion for educating diverse leaders and mobilizing underrepresented people through an equity and inclusion lens. Nicole began her journey as a first-generation college student at Georgia Tech where she received a President’s Undergraduate Research Award for a study focusing on media representations of LGBTQ+ families.
Ian Siljestrom
Ian Siljestrom (he/him) is the Safe and Healthy Schools Associate Director for Equality Florida. He is responsible for fighting the extensive risk factors, which disproportionately affect our LGBTQ youth in school, including bullying, homelessness, self-harm, and HIV transmission. He works directly with 20 school districts across Florida to assist in the implementation of professional development and comprehensive best practices to ensure the empowerment of all students’ identities. Ian has extensive speaking and professional development experience, including at local, state, and national conferences.
Brianna Jamison
Brianna Jamison (she/hers) is an LGBTQ youth activist (Chair, 2019 GSA Banneker High School) and entrepreneur. Brianna comes from Rockford, Illinois and graduated from Benjamin Banneker High School. At Banneker, Brianna was the Chair of The Gay-Straight Alliance and was also a star athlete on the girl’s basketball and softball teams. She is in the midst of becoming a self-made entrepreneur in the making, creating two businesses that she believes will powerfully impact and influence the community.
Ashlei Rabess
Ashlei Rabess, M.A., LAPC, NCC (she/her) is a third-year doctoral student in the Counselor Education and Practice program at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, and is an LGBTQ Institute Fellow. Ashlei’s academic and professional interests include multiculturalism and social justice in counseling and counselor education, generational trauma and healing, internalized oppression in LGBTQ+ individuals, and group work. Ashlei is also a current NBCC Doctoral Minority Fellow, CSI Leadership Intern, and serving as Editorial Assistant for the Journal for Counselor Leadership and Advocacy.