LGBTQ Activism

I have worked for numerous LGBTQ organizations. Some of the highlights are below. 

Competitive Insurance Benefits for All

I founded a statewide organization of students to lobby the Texas legislature for Competitive Insurance Benefits for University of Texas and Texas A&M system faculty and staff. While the initial effort was unsuccessful, the network proved to be useful in defeating discriminatory amendments to ban gender and sexuality centers from public universities in Texas on the budget by a lawmaker via distributed lobbying. Articles on those amendments: 

• http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/82nd-legislative-session/video-pansexual-amendment-debate/
  
• http://www.texastribune.org/texas-taxes/budget/after-after-16-hours-texas-house-passes-bill/
  
• http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/texas-legislature/the-weekly-tribcast-episode-74/
  
• http://www.texasobserver.org/capitolletters/item/17682-what-would-christian-do
  
• http://juanitajean.com/2011/06/10/pansexual-wayne-chrisitan-is-anti-pansexual-and-as-soon-as-he-finds-out-what-it-means-hes-going-to-be-even-more-against-it/
  
• http://www.dallasvoice.com/anticampus-lgbt-resource-center-amendment-defeated-1079519.html
  
• http://www.legislativequeery.com/2011/06/amendment-to-ban-campus-lgbt-resource.html
  
• http://www.legislativequeery.com/2011/04/budget-amendments-attempt-to-elevate.html
  

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Queer Students Alliance

I created this logo for the organization where I was the vice-director. It is an agency of student government and served as an umbrella group for all 15 other queer organizations at UT.

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StandOut

This is a queer political advocacy organization at UT which I was one of the four board members. Our administrative advocacy efforts were focused on Competitive Insurance Benefits for UT system faculty and staff and Gender Inclusive Housing on campus residence halls.

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Viral Meme Advertising Campaign

As part of my work with StandOut, we filmed a video for competitive Insurance Benefits for UT Faculty and Staff. The idea was the use comedy to spread social change and build support from the community.

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Queer Texas Conference

As QSA Vice-Director I planned the Queer Texas Conference. I created the logo, the bulletin, and we had T-shirts. I advertised the conference and had 19 workshops and brought in a keynote speaker with attendees from all over the state. The conference bulletin is below.

Queer Texas Conference Program

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