• Safe Zone Network

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    Safe Zone

    Hamline University
    1536 Hewitt Avenue
    Saint Paul, MN 55104

    651-523-2423

  • Advisory Committee

    The Safe Zone Advisory Council serves to strengthen the Network and broaden its' impact in the Hamline University and surrounding community by providing education programming, training, advocacy and support to address issues facing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex and ally community.

    Members serve one or two year terms, meet four times each year and fulfill key responsibilities including:

    • Provide feedback, evaluation and recommendations for initiatives of the Safe Zone Network (SZN);
    • Assist in the development on long-range vision and plans;
    • Serve on committees or task forces related to the goals and initiatives of the SFN; and
    • Assist in the development of campus and community partnerships to provide additional support and resources to LGBTQIA faculty, staff and students.

    Committee Members


    Name        

    		Position     Area

         		 Safe Zone Role 
    Poonam Arora
         		 Staff Diversity Integration AAA
    Caite Eilenberg
         		 Student College of Liberal Arts  Education
    Anika Eide


         		 Staff  Graduate School of
    Liberal Studies     		Chair,
    Safe Zone Advisory Committee

     
     Kimberly Johnson
         		 Faculty School of Education Evaluation


     
    Shawyn Lee

         		 Staff MISA Office Safe Zone Coordinator
    Micah Ludeke

         		 Student School of Law Education
    Carol Mayer

         		 Faculty School of Education  
    Grace Mills

         		 Faculty/Staff         School of Law Education
    Josh Nelson


         		 Staff  Student Administrative Services  
    Trung Nguyen

         		 Student College of Liberal Arts AAA
    Diane Ostman

         		 Staff School of Law Training
    Carlos D. Sneed

         		 Staff Multicultural and International Coordinator,
    Safe Zone Network

     
    Jayne Sommers

         		 Staff Orientation and First-Year Programs
         		 Evaluation


     
    Nancy Victorin-Vangerud

         		 Staff  Chaplain / Wesley Center Programming
                                                                               

  • Hamline News
    • Carlos Sneed, director of the Hedgeman Center for Student Diversity and Stef Wilenchek, assistant director for Gender and Sexual Orientation at the Hedgeman Center, presented a four hour Safe Zone training to over 15 Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) staff on May 6.
    • On Wednesday May 15, Tammie Pate and Robert Rivera from The Center for Excellence in Urban Teaching (CEUT) hosted a group of parents, predominately first generation immigrants, from Bruce Vento Elementary School.
    • Rachel Endo, chair of Teacher Education in the School of Education, presented, Un/Learning Asian America in the Curriculum: Perspectives from Japanese American Youth, at the American Educational Research Association's Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA.
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