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Resources:
Campus
Safe Space:
Email: safespace@wilkes.edu
Office of Diversity Initiatives
Email: diversity@wilkes.edu
Wilkes Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA)
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ groups/100412340024548
Local Community
NEPA Rainbow Alliance:
Website: www.gaynepa.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/neparainbow
NEPA Parent, Families and Friends and Gays
Website: www.nepaflag.com
Pennsylvania Student Equality Coalition (PSEC)
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pennsylvania-Student-Equality-Coalition-PSEC/217161971643855
PA Diversity:
Website: www.padiversity.org
National
National Gay Lesbian Task Force:
Website: thetaskforce.org/
Human Rights Campaign:
Website: ww.hrc.org
Parent, Families and Friends of Lesbian And Gays:
Website: www.pflag.org
National Black Justice Coalition:
Website: www.nbjcoalition.org
LGBTQArchitect:
Website: architect.lgbtcampus.org/
Consortium:
Website: http://www.lgbtcampus.org/
Femme Noir– For lesbians of Color:
Website: www.femmenoir.net
Gay Asian Pacific Support Network:
Website: www.gaspn.org
National Hispanic Gay and Lesbian Assoc.
Website: www.llego.org
Campus Pride:
Website: www.campuspride.org
Allies at Wilkes
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Ms.
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Erica
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Acosta
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Associate Director of Diversity Initiatives
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Dr.
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Mark
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Allen
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Dean Student Affairs
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Dr.
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Anne Heineman
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Batory
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Professor/ Interim Chair
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Mrs.
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Susan
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Biskup
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Campus Counselor
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Dr.
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Robert
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Bohlander
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Professor Psychology
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Mrs.
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Megan
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Boone Valkenburg
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Civic Engagement Office
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Ms.
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Carol
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Bosack
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Director Career Services
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Ms.
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Heather
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Bowman
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Electronic Resources/Serials Librarian
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Mrs.
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Anita
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Burns
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Office Assistant Health and Wellness
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Ms.
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Mathilde
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Casserleigh
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Assistant Director Admission
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Ms.
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Caitlin
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Czeh
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Interfaith Coordinator
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Dr.
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Helen
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Davis
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Professor English
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Ms.
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Melissa
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Gaudio
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Campus Counselor
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Ms.
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Cheryl
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Gibson
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Associate Director Admission
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Mrs.
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Gail
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Holby
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Coordinator Health and Wellness
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Mr.
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Joseph
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Housenick
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Human Resources Director
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Dr.
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Sean
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Kelly
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Assistant Professor English
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Miss
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Danielle
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Kern
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Assistant Director of Resident Life
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Dr.
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Arthur
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Kibbe
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Professor/Chair Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Ms.
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Sarah
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Lloyd
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Upward Bound Coordinator
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Mrs.
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Blake
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Mackesy
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Director Learning Center
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Mr
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Thomas
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Mazzolla
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Functional Technologist
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Mr.
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Michael
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McCree
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Assistant Director Admission
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Dr.
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Mary Beth
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Mullen
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Coordinator Student Affairs
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Ms.
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Diane
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O'Brian
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Director Health and Wellness Services
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Ms.
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Amy
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Patton
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Associate Director Admission
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Dr.
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Linda
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Paul
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Associate Professor Philosophy
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Dr.
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Kenneth
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Pidcock
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Associate Professor /Chair Biology
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Ms.
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Jill
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Price
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Adventure Education coordinator
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Dr.
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Meridith
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Selden
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Assistant Professor Psychology
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Mrs.
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Roberta
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Shaffer
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Office Assistant Residence Life
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Ms.
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Amy
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Shuleski
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Assistant Director of Admissions
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Dr.
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Chad
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Stanley
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Associate Professor English
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Mrs.
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Elizabeth
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Swantek
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Director of Residence Life
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Dr.
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Deborah
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Tindell
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Professor Psychology
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Ms.
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Judi
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Wienckoski
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Student Affairs Assistant
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Ms.
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Felixa
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Wigen
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Assistant Director International Students
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Ms.
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Gretchen
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Yeninas
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Coordinator Student Affairs
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Common Terms:
Sexual Orientation: The desire for intimate emotional and sexual relationships with people of the same sex (homosexual), the other sex (heterosexual), or both sexes (bisexual).
Gender Identity: A person’s sense of being male or female.
Gay: The adjective used to describe people who are physically romantically, and/or emotionally attracted to people of the same sex.
Lesbian: A woman whose enduring physical, romantic, emotional and/or spiritual attraction is to other women.
Bisexual: An individual who is physically, romantically, emotionally and/or spiritually attracted to men and women.
Transgender: An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from sex they were assigned at birth.
Transsexual: A person who has changed, or is in the process of changing, his or her physical sex to conform to his or her internal sense of gender identity.
Heterosexism: The assumption that everyone is heterosexual, and that heterosexuality is superior to homosexuality or bisexuality.
Questioning: A term or period where an individual re-assesses (however privately or openly) the orientation/identity that they have either asserted for themselves, or been brought up as.
Intersex: Describing a person whose biological sex is ambiguous.
LGBTQA: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Ally.
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