The LGBT Center of Central PA, Planned Parenthood Keystone, and Dickinson College are pleased to present the 9th Annual GSA Leadership Summit. This Summit is an opportunity for students and professionals to meet, network and participate in workshops designed to help everyone better understand and advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, and asexual youth and their allies in central Pennsylvania and beyond.
The GSA Leadership Summit is the only event of its kind in central PA, where LGBTQQIA students and professional allies have day-long safe spaces to network, learn new skills, and work toward making central PA a more welcoming place for all people.
The Summit has different programming for high school and college audiences. In 2016, for the first time, we have an option of two different days for the high school audience: Thursday, March 31 or Friday, April 1. Each day will have a cap of 250 participants, and your group may choose either day until one is full. Space is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. **UPDATE: Friday, April 1 has reached capacity. Registrants for the high school program may attend on Thursday, March 31.**
(If you are a college student/group looking to register for Saturday, April 2, visit
http://goo.gl/forms/rzSqK13j3Q.)
Register below by Friday, March 18, 2016 for the early-bird registration rate of $10/student or $40/professional. (After that date, registration increases by $5/attendee.) Registration includes lunch and participation in all Summit sessions, including opening session, keynote address, workshops, and closing session.
Keynote Address: Being Non-Violent in a Violent World, Rev. Miller Jen Hoffman
Rev. Miller Jen Hoffman was ordained by Metropolitan Community Church of New York after graduating from Union Theological Seminary in 2004. His thesis, “Every Woman Who Will Make Herself Male: Genderqueer Expression in the Early Church” was deposited in the Burke Library and earned him the Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Prize in Church History. He has worked for LGBT civil rights with Lambda Legal Defense; for anti-violence justice at the Center for Anti-Violence Education, one of the first all-women organizations to include trans women and, later, all trans-identified people; as a counselor and advocate for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors with organizations in New York and Pennsylvania; as a mentor to local queer and trans youth in NY and PA; and as the pastor of MCC congregations in Binghamton, NY, and currently Open Door MCC in Boyds, MD. Mind-body-spirit connections to social justice and the connectedness of all forms of physical, emotional, and spiritual violence deeply influence his theology and ministry. Miller is a contributor to The Huffington Post, and his writing explores the places where personal action meets and impacts social change. He lives in Carlisle with a very good girlfriend and a very bad cat.
