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Finding Purpose in Activism with Inclusion NextWork

In January 2004 my grandparents took me to Havana, Cuba to meet my family there for the first time. A month later, the Bush Administration revoked family visitation rights, leading to an eight-year separation from the aunts, uncles, and cousins I had only known in stories and pictures until that visit. At age 13, I […]

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Finding your LGBTQ+ community at academic conferences

Six years ago, four friends and I sat at a tall wooden table near the entrance of Darwin’s Pub and waited to see if anyone else would show up. We had just come from the keynote presentation after a full day of conference talks at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology’s annual conference. That […]

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Rewriting the Story for LGBTQ Students Heading to College

Everyone loves a story with a happy ending. One of the most heart-warming stories of recent months is that of high school senior Seth Owen. Accepted into Georgetown University – but estranged from his parents because he is gay – Seth was unsure if he could attend college. His biology teacher set up a GoFundMe […]

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Inside IvyQ: Attending & Reflecting

This year has been an incredible year filled with new experiences. First of all, this fall, I packed my bags and flew across the country from Arizona to Connecticut to begin a new chapter in my life: college. As I have gotten settled in, I have noticed that no matter what your interests are, there […]

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Inside IvyQ: Organizing & Recharging

At the time that I’m writing this, it’s been about a week since the 2017 IvyQ Conference wrapped up at Yale University where I’m currently in my senior year. As one of three Co-Chairs who organized the conference and began planning it more than a year in advance, it was a bittersweet moment to see […]

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Reflecting on Progress for LGBTQ & Racially Marginalized Women in STEM

Though many people have their reservations about 2016, for me, I’ve been able to grow both as a student and budding professional. As someone who holds many marginalized identities, I’ve come up with my own way to describe my experience as a Queer Latinx Woman in STEM: “Angie in STEM.” 2016 has given me the […]

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University of Arizona Trans*Studies Conference

    At the beginning of September, the University of Arizona hosted the inaugural Trans*Studies Conference – an international and transdisciplinary conference on gender, embodiment, and sexuality. Spearheaded by the incredible effort of U of A’s Institute for LGBT Studies, planning for the conference concretely began last Fall with the assemblage of a steering committee […]

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LEAD & New Directions in LGBTQ Advocacy

A few weeks ago, Point Foundation hosted its Leadership Education & Affinities Development (LEAD) Consortium on Policy & Law, which served as an opportunity for Point Scholars, Alumni, mentors, and guest speakers to convene, exchange ideas, and brainstorm about the current state of LGBTQ advocacy. We were greeted by a number of policy analysts, legal experts, […]

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National Leadership Conference (NLC) 2016

Having grown up in a low-income household, I never had the opportunity to travel very far. In fact, prior to the Point finalist interviews in Los Angeles, I had never flown or been outside the South. So I was extremely excited to go to Washington, D.C., for the National Leadership Conference (NLC) for my second […]

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Point Scholar Valentin Sierra & Mentor Ed Callahan share their thoughts on the Mentoring Program

With our National Leadership Conference only one week away, we decided to share a throwback post about Point Scholar Valentin Sierra and his mentor Ed Callahan from January’s LEAD Health & Medicine Conference. In January, we got the chance to talk a little bit about how Point’s Mentoring Program has had an impact to both of […]

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