Equity Meets… Queer Resistance & Joy
As the official eighth episode of Equity Meets… we are excited to share our next, very rad podcast with some great guests. Equity Meets… Queer Resistance & Joy sits down with our Assistant Director Ashley Hill and guests Nadine Bridges and Erica Castro. We will dive into strategic ways to continue advocating for the queer community and also finding the joy in the resistance.
About Erica (she/they)
Erica brings 10 years of youth service to this work including 5 years of teaching high school students in the Denver area and 2 years in research centering LGBTQIA2+ youth of color. Erica holds an MSW degree from the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. Erica brings an intersectional approach to equipping youth-serving professionals with the tools to best equitably serve the students of our community, and prioritizes anti-oppressive practices and liberation in all they do. Erica experiences joy through bouldering, harry styles, podcasts on ghosts+jungle animals+caves, their new machete, and is going through their dead insect collecting era.
About Nadine (she/her/hers)
Nadine Bridges is the first Black and female Executive Director of One Colorado, the state’s leading advocacy organization advancing equality for LGBTQ+ Coloradans and their families. She has dedicated herself to working with and advocating for vulnerable communities for over 20 years. Nadine has been a professor, director, counselor, mentor, volunteer, Peace Corps volunteer, and activist. She is committed to racial equity, social justice, and anti-oppressive movements.
Nadine is an adjunct professor at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work. She professionally mentors former students and colleagues and serves on the Advisory Committee of Racial Diversity to the Dean at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work and is a Health Equity Commissioner for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
Nadine earned her BS in Biology from the College of Charleston and her Master of Social Work from the University of Denver along with a Certificate for Social Work with the Latinx Community.
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