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 楼凤天堂 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)
Ren茅 M. Rodr铆guez-Astacio (2026)
(California State University, Fresno, CA)
Kyle Smith (2027)
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
Gabriel Acevedo Vel谩zquez (2026)
(Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ)
Executive Committee Liaison, Jamal Cooks
(Chabot College,聽 Hayward, CA)
楼凤天堂 Staff and Administrative Liaison, Andrew Kleinke