Syracuse University Honors Program
Syracuse University Honors Program
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Hello Honors Students, Karen, your civic engagement guru here
We received information about a great volunteer opportunity that would add to your civic engagement hours. The Q Center in Syracuse is looking for a programming intern–all the necessary information and forms are available here.
The Q Center is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth and their allies to gather, share, hang out, have fun, and build healthy relationships with supportive adults and peers. It is a great place to make new friends.
You would be working with Tyler Sliker, a host of very active volunteers, and a center full of cool kids. I have volunteered with the Q Center on a number of occasions and really enjoyed it. I met Tyler when I was the program coordinator for SAGE Upstate (an LGBT organization serving folks at the opposite end of the life cycle) and he is enjoyable to work with.
If you can’t make the kind of commitment this internship might require, consider volunteering at the Q Center in a way that fits your schedule and interests. The center is on a bus line, so transportation is doable as well.
Deanna Payson, senior Honors student, has been busy for the last year coordinating the first-ever “Life Gets Better Together” conference for LGBT youth advocacy. It will take place on March 24th in the Newhouse school, and will feature a day of workshops, a keynote panel, and an a cappella concert to benefit The Trevor Project. There are a wealth of interesting educational workshops, and the keynote panel on representations of LGBTQ youth in politics & the media will feature two high-profile outside speakers (media relations expert Cathy Renna and NYS Assembly Member Daniel O’Donnell) in addition to Dr. Brenda Wrigley of the PR department in Newhouse.
Please visit our website www.lifegetsbettertogether.com to see the extent of the conference and to view event schedule.