Executive Board: Officers & Facilitators Last Updated: January 31st, 2008 Below are our Executive Board Officers and Facilitators for 2007-2008! If you have any general Pride Alliance questions, please e-mail the Director of Communication. To contact or meet our 2007-2008 School Year MICA Advisor, Michelle Farley, click here. President, QSA Co-Facilitator, c.j. rock Hailing from New England, c.j. is a third year student majoring in Spanish Language and Literature and pursuing the Certificate of LGBT Studies here at University of Maryland. Ze is the President and is the QSA Co-Facilitator for Spring 2008. Ze has also graduated the College Park Scholars program, specifically the American Cultures group. Ze intends to become a foreign language teacher at the high school level, and one day opening hir own high school in the DC area. This year, c.j. is President of the Pride Alliance, but has been involved since hir freshman year, taking over the positions of Director of Programming (formerly VP of Programming) and facilitation of Bisexuals at Maryland, and last year, Director of Communication and co-facilitation of Trans U. This summer, ze attended the Campus Pride LGBTA Summer Leadership Camp, learned a ton of info, and loved it to pieces. If you don't see hir being an all-around crazy queer at Pride Alliance meetings and events, ze's probably expounding the virtues of Google products, working in the Office of LGBT Equity, or pondering what songs to play on hir WMUC radio show, the Queer Quorner , with "quohost" Scott La Cross. Questions about anything at all are always welcome - and if ze can't answer it, ze'll point you to a resource that can.. c.j. rock can be reached at president.pride [@] umd.edu. Director of Communication, Webmaster, Justin Orlando Fair Justin Fair is a sophomore at the University of Maryland: College Park as a Theatre and Art Studio Major. Thrilled and charming, Justin is the Director of Communication and Webmaster for the 2007-2008 school year. Justin owns Soulstrong Designs, a personal business for interior, theatre, and web design; at soulstrong.net. Fine, graphic, and literary works are available for portfolio viewing. Justin is big on the arts and humanities--he enjoys discussing thought-provoking topics and sleeping. Justin can be reached at communication.pride [@] umd.edu. Director of Programming, QSA Co-Facilitator, Jenna Brager Jenna Brager is a sophomore Journalism major with a certificate in LGBT studies. She is the Co-Director of Programming for the 2007-2008 school year, the QSA Co-Facilitator for Spring 2007, in addition to working in the Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy and as an outdoor trip leader, as well as interning at the National Center for Transgender Equality. Jenna is also heavily involved with the Terpoets open mic and poetry in general. Her interests include freedom of speech, media literacy and reform, blues music, vegan cooking, backpacking, direct action, sustainable agriculture, traveling, gender identity and expression, knitting, coffee, rescuing rodents, creating opportunities, and climbing things that generally stay still. Jenna can be reached at programming.pride [@] umd.edu. Director of Outreach, Loren Jaeschke Loren Noah Jaeschke is a senior Sociology Major. He plans on graduating in Spring '08. He is the Director of Outreach and was previously the Facilitator of Trans U from Fall '06 to Spring '07. Loren can be reached at outreach.pride [@] umd.edu Historian, Trans U Facilitator, Andy Bowen Andy Bowen is planning to graduate in May 2008 as a History Major with Women's Studies certificate. He is the Historian and the Trans U Facilitator for the 2007-2008 school year. Andy is also a Teaching Assistant for the Honors Humanities Program. Andy can be reached at historian.pride [@] umd.edu. Media Monitor, Pamela Hsu Pamela Hsu is a freshman Anthropology major and hoping to add Japanese as a double. She is the Media Monitor for Spring 2008. She is also a Global Communities [live and learn] member and is involved with many of their various activities. Pamela aspires to work with Japanese pop and traditional culture and the LGBT community within that area. Then, she plans to travel to various places and eventually open a coffee shop somewhere. Pamela is interested in and greatly enjoys coffee/tea, cake/pastries, movies, practicing/learning martial arts, designing, misty rain, thunderstorms, reading, dark humour, anything LGBT, helping others out in anyway possible, and letting her vivid and somewhat unusual imagination spill over the brim into reality. You can contact Pamela at media.pride [@] umd.edu. SafeSpace Facilitator, Cecilio Alvarez Cecilio Alvarez is a graduate student in the College Student Personnel Program at the University of Maryland. He is excited to join Kevin McGann as a SafeSpace Co-Facilitator for Spring 2008. Cecilio enjoys having dinner with his cohort members, learning new tricks in the skating rink, and visiting his hometown of El Paso, Texas. Cecilio can be reached at safespace.pride [@] umd.edu. SafeSpace Facilitator, Kevin McGann Kevin McGann is a graduate student in the counseling psychology program at UMD. He is the SafeSpace Co-Facilitator for 2007-2008. He enjoys outdoor activities, road trips with friends, and stealing dessert from his roommate, who is a pastry chef. When he's not co-facilitating SafeSpace, you can find him reading outside on campus or externing at the Health Center. Kevin can be reached at safespace.pride [@] umd.edu. Bisexuals At Maryland (BAM) Facilitator, Michael Smoot Smoot Michaels is a sophomore Sociology and Family Studies Major. He is the Bisexuals at Maryland Facilitator for 2007-2008. He is Bisexual, a Cancer, a Singer, a Dancer and a Flirt. Michael Smoot can be reached at bam.pride [@] umd.edu. True Colors Of Maryland (TCOM) Facilitator, Kandice Fields Kandice Fields is a junior Mechanical Engineering major. She is the TCOM Facilitator for 2007-2008. She is also the Telecommunications chair for the Black Engineers Society. Her interests are music (she knows the lyrics to thousands of songs... it's a problem), art (she likes to draw, make pretty graphics on the computer, and look at pretty stuff that other people do), LGBT issues (marriage, transgender equity, health, media representation) and anything having to do with outer space and space exploration. Kandice can be reached at tcom.pride [@] umd.edu. Women2Women (W2W) Facilitator, Jamie Adasi Jamie Adasi, plans on graduating in May of 2010, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Spanish Language & Literature. She is the W2W Co-Facilitator for 2007-2008. She also plays basketball for the UMD Women's Club Basketball team, her friends call her the 'psychologist' of the group, as she enjoys learning more about LGBT studies and issues and hopes to become a Counseling Psychologist or Couple's Therapist. She hopes to be able to reach out to those who are underrepresented within our society. Jamie can be reached at w2w.pride [@] umd.edu. Women2Women (W2W) Facilitator, Alex Lloyd Alexandria N. L. Lloyd, born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. She's a (early) eighties baby, with a fearless 70's soul. English and LGBT Studies Super-Duper Senior, "hoping" to graduate in Fall of 08'. She co-facilitates Women2Women with Jamie Adasi, her partner in bringing the female- identifying queer community together. She loves to read substantial books, write and talk about sex with women. She aspires to work in queer journalism for a prominent gay publication somewhere out in San-Fran, baby! She *hearts* music, poetry and women. She also likes to nap with her favority feline, Bailey-boots. Alexandria can be reached at w2w.pride [@] umd.edu. Incorrect information? Typo? Broken link? E-Mail Justin Fair at webmaster.pride [@] umd.edu Copyright UM Pride Alliance, 2007-2008