MISSION
The Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Services at New York University exists to create campus environments that are inclusive and supportive of student diversity in the areas of sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.
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CONTACT
STAFF
MONROE FRANCE
Associate Director, Student Life / Director, LGBT Student Services
As the Director of the Office of LGBT Student Services, Monroe brings a wealth of professional experience, knowledge and leadership to this important role. He has 15 years of experience working on LGBT issues and best practices in higher education, student affairs and the nonprofit sector.
Prior to NYU, Monroe served as the Supervising Community Educator for Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national LGBT legal organization, and as Senior Training Specialist at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). In both roles, France has created curricula and trained thousands of educators and K-12 upper-level administrators. Further, Monroe returns to NYU. He served as a student affairs administrator in the NYU Office of Student Activities where he advised students, student organizations and developed one of the most successful social justice programs in the nation.
Along with his energy and passion, Monroe has a national reputation as a public speaker and is invited often to serve as a keynote. With diversity education emerging as an important tool for student development, Monroe has conducted over 100 diversity and anti-bias programs and workshops. He has held the position of Board Secretary for Al-Fatiha LGBT Muslim Foundation and was the Coordinator of the People of Color Organizing Institute, a program of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force's Creating Change Conference.
Monroe received his BA in English from John Carroll University, completed a dual MA in Higher Education Administration and Cultural Studies in Education from The Ohio State University and received an associate's degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology
in 2006.
Email: monroe.france@nyu.edu
AIM: nyulgbtmonroe
CELIANY RIVERA-VELAZQUEZ
Program Administrator for Intra/Inter Cultural Programming & Advisement
Celiany Rivera-Velázquez is a feminist educator and videographer working to diversify higher education through innovative research, creative pedagogy and public involvement. She holds a B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of Puerto Rico and its currently finishing her PhD in Feminist Media Studies and Transnational Queer Cultural Production from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Throughout her academic career in Cultural Studies she has been able to combine written and audiovisual knowledges. Besides screening her films in national and international film festivals, she has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Letras Femeninas and the Feminist Media Studies Journal. She has also contributed for edited volumes such as "Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, & Policy" and the forthcoming "Blacktino Queer Performance: An Anthology". While at the University of Illinois, she led a diverse set of campus organizations, all of which speak directly to the overwhelming need to diversify curricula and academia. She has organized panels department-wide and international in scope; conducted collaborative and independent research and taught courses that emphasized intersectionality. Her previous position as a Graduate Assistant at the Office for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resources at UIUC was the culmination of a decade of organizing around issues of gender and sexual empowerment, literacy and cultural agency in urban spaces across Puerto Rico, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Georgia and Illinois. As an avid fan of observing the ways women's imagination can transform different types of collectivities, she thoroughly enjoys attending spoken word, hip hop, electronic, video, and art-action performances, especially when they are done by women of color eager to undo conservative, stereotypical or one-sided ideas about the world and themselves. She knows a lot about green and yellow plantains, her favorite fruits are mangoes and blackberries, and she enjoys swimming laps… a lot.
Email: crv3@nyu.edu
AIM: nyulgbtceliany
MAGGIE FAY
Graduate Assistant
Maggie Fay is a first-year graduate student in the Higher Education Administration program at NYU. Maggie plans to go into LGBT Student Services, and hopes to become the director of an LGBT Student Services Office when she grows up. Maggie is super jazzed on LGBTQ activism and advocacy. She co-founded the first Gay/Straight Alliance at West High School in her home town of Madison, WI in 1997. She co-founded an LGBTQ support group for Peace Corps volunteers in Cameroon where she served an volunteer from 2003-2006. She worked as an intern for the, then nascent, Gay/Straight Alliance Network of Texas, and she has created workshops to increase awareness about LGBTQ survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. She is particularly interested questions of equity and access in higher education, and fascinated by the intersection of queer indentities and the global community, and looking at how queer Americans navigate foreign spaces. Maggie co-coordinates the First Year Queers and Allies program as well as graduate student programming. Maggie always welcomes people stopping by for geek-out sessions on Tina Fey, coffee, This American Life, or sparkling water.
Email: mf1519@nyu.edu
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