I’m very excited to be heading off this week to be with 4000 or so queer folks at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change conference in Washington, D.C.—the 30th anniversary of the event. If you’ll be there, too, please leave a comment!
I’ll be attending on behalf of my day-job employer, the National SEED Project at the Wellesley Centers for Women, which is a sponsor of the conference. (They have nothing to do with this blog, however, for which I am solely responsible.) SEED is a peer-led professional development program for educators, parents, community leaders, and others that creates conversational communities to drive personal, organizational, and societal change toward greater equity and diversity. We do this by training individuals to facilitate ongoing seminars within their own institutions and communities. Several of my colleagues will be offering a workshop on Friday, January 26, 9:00 to 10:30 a.m., titled, “Let’s Talk Race and Gender in Schools,” and we’ll have a table in the exhibit hall. Stop by and say hi! I’ll also be at a number of the parenting-related workshops, so that’s a good way to find me, too.
Special thanks to my spouse, Helen, for holding down the fort at home while I’m away. She’s usually the one who travels for business, but it’s fun to flip the tables once in a while.