Out at Emory

Out at Emory

Through a series of focus groups and a survey, the Office of LGBT Life learned that many of our students did not know any LGBTQ-identified faculty and staff – or so they thought. After a campus-wide survey about LGBTQ issues, we also learned through several problematic responses that many were unaware of Emory’s commitment to the LGBTQ community. In response to these problems, the Out@Emory campaign was born.

The campaign allows LGBTQ faculty, staff, students, and alumni greater visibility on campus, which is a major focus of the Office of LGBT Life due to the invisibility of so many of our identities. Below you will find the many people at Emory who identify along a spectrum of sexual and gender identities. We hope the list will continue to grow as more faculty, staff, students, and alumni choose to participate in the program.

If you are interested in being Out@Emory, click here to submit your information. If you identify as an ally, you may participate in the Emory Safe Space program and be listed on the Safe Space Ally list.

The faculty, staff, students, and alumni listed below described their identities in their own words. If you want to learn more about these terms and the different ways people choose to identify, check out some of the resources on this page and consider signing up for a Safe Space training.

Email lgbt@emory.eduif you have any questions or concerns.

Jacqueline Veliz 18C Program Coordinator \| Office of LGBT Life	Ryan Roche, 03OX 05C Assistant Director Development and Alumni Relations, Oxford College Gay Man	Tim Holbrook Professor Law School; Vice Provost, Faculty Affairs Gay Man
Jessica Lowy Associate Director of BBA & Pre-BBA Student Advising & Programming BBA Program Office Bisexual	Ruo Liu 17L Alum \| Emory Law	Kovonn Tanner, 12C Alumnus \| Political Science & Philosophy Bisexual
Cody Reece, 13N Alumnus \| Nursing Gay Male	Martin Brooks Emory Healthcare Administration Gay Male	Angelica Trumer GDBBS- Molecular & Systems Pharmacology Queer Female
Edwin Worthington-Blount Staff \| Rollins School of Public Health Gay Male	Joy Wasson Academic Degree Program Coordinator \| Department of Religion Lesbian	Wendy Darling Communications \| Woodruff Health Sciences Center Bisexual
Paul Towne, 07EvMBA Alumnus Gay	Anushka Aqil, 15MPH Alumna \| Rollins School of Public Health Queer Woman	Maxwell Griffin Student \| Cancer Biology PhD Queer Transmasculine
Lilly Correa, 73C Alumna Lesbian	Hanne Blank G Alumna Queer Cisgender High Femme	Adam Malm Administrative Manager \| School of Nursing, Office of the Dean
Zoë Julian, 15M Alumna \| School of Medicine Queer Woman	Joe DeRose, 87C Software Engineer, Sr. Research Health Sciences IT Gay Male	Steven Bange Program Coordinator \| Emory Continuing Education Gay
Matthew Hunt, 04B Alumnus Male	Valerie Molyneaux Director International Programs Goizueta Business School Lesbian	Joshua Noblitt, 04T Alumnus Gay Male
Danielle M. Bruce-Steele Director Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Life Belonging & Community Justice Lesbian/Queer Cisgender Woman	Robert Alexander, 77C Alumnus Gay	John Drago Research Project Coordinator, Sr. Department of Pathology Gay
Megan Pendleton Staff \| Office of LGBT Life	Paul M.A. Baker Ph.D., 07T Alumnus Male	India Jones, 16C Alum \| Biology Bisexual Genderqueer
Olivia Wise, 10C Admission Advisor \| Oxford College Queer Woman	Dohyun Ahn, 14C Alumnus \| Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies; Classics Queer	Donna Troka, 07G Assistant Director Center for Faculty Development & Excellence Adjunct Faculty, ILA Queer in Gender & Sexuality
John Berke, 06B Alumnus Gay	Marsha Howard Assistant Operations Manager School of Medicine Division of Animal Resources Lesbian	Christopher Funderburk, 11M Surgical Resident Gay Male
James Steffen, 05G Film and Media Studies Librarian Woodruff Library Gay	Bonnie Jean Woolger Manager Digital Imaging Group of the Woodruff Library Lesbian	Matthew Niebes, 12OX 14C Alum Flaming Queermosexual
Dona Yarbrough Sr. Director Learning and Innovation, Campus Life Queer Woman	Kim Fugate Associate Director School of Medicine Simulation Lab Lesbian	Jason Schneider Associate Professor \| School of Medicine Gay Male
Kent Tolleson Financial Analyst \| Health Policy and Management Gay Male	Amy Dryman Staff \| Division of Animal Resources Bisexual Woman	Christine Robbins, 11/12N Graduate Student \| Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Lesbian
Mya Proctor, 14C Alum \| Anthropology Bisexual	Alec Fox, 11C Alumnus \| Linguistics Gay/Queer/Male	Brandon Bedford, 11C Alumnus \| Environmental Studies Gay Male
Charles Abdel-Nabi, 12OX 14C Alumnus \| Anthropology Gay	Lori Powers, 12N Alumna Lesbian	Shane Gragg Residence Life Coordinator \| Oxford College Gay Male
Gina Shannon Program Coordinator-Casting Office of Medical Education and Student Affairs Clinical Skills Center Queer	Scott Milagro-Fotre, 08MPH Alumnus Gay	Chris Saden, 08C Alumnus Gay Male
Rachelle Lehner, 89C Alum Lesbian	Stephen Deaderick, 09C Alumnus Gay	Ashley Wilcox 16T Alum \| Candler School of Theology Bisexual Woman
Anne Rector, 87L Program Director & Administrative Professor \| Law School Lesbian	Frank Maddox Associate Professor of Economics Oxford College Openly Gay Man	Kathy Hayes Business Analyst \| University Technical Services Queer
Kathy Britt ILL Lending Coordinator, RW Woodruff Library Lesbian	Bassel Rabah, 11C Alum Queer	Melissa Gilstrap Manager of Communications \| Laney Graduate School Lesbian
Lisa Carlson, 93MPH Director of Academic Affairs Surgery, Transplant, Brain Health Adjunct Instructor Rollins School of Public Health Lesbian	Nickie Stipe, 07GSAS (PhD) Editor \| Department of Religion Queer, Genderqueer	Jonelle Shields McKenzie Administrative Assistant \| Emory Healthcare Office of Quality Queer Woman
Johanna Hinman, 98MPH Associate Director of Education Department of Surgery Lesbian	Shelby Smith Program Coordinator Office of Admissions School of Medicine Bisexual	Patrick Otsuki, 12OX 14C Alum Bisexicle
Jon Pennycuff, 14M Alum Gay Male	Lucia Vidable, 08OX 10C Alumna Queer Woman	Amanda Carrington, 11OX 13C Alumna \| Women's Studies Bisexual Woman
Dwight Chambers, 18M Medical Student Gay Male	Catherine Shiel Senior Research Analyst Development Queer/Lesbian	Joe O'Geen, 10C Alumnus \| Assistant Director Affinity Alumni Engagement Gay Male
Rebeca Quintana Program Administrator \| Master's in Development Practice at Laney School of Graduate Studies Lesbian	Jim Grimsley Professor of Practice \| Creative Writing Male-Male Oriented Man	Daniele Xenos, 97OX 06C Alumna (right) Lesbian
S. Alan Fann Staff \| Medical Disability Department Gay Queer Bisexual	Aby Parsons, 13G Alumna \| Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Lesbian, Cisgender Woman	Kathleen Womack, 86L Alumna Lesbian
Lynne Huffer Professor \| Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Queer	Eric Gonzales, 13C Alumnus \| Biology & Physics Gay Cowboy	Ken Burke, 12C Alumnus \| Neuroscience Queer, Cisgender Man
Malcolm Robinson, 15C Alumnus \| Assistant Director Office for Racial and Cultural Engagement Gay Male	Patrick Sullivan, 88C Associate Professor \| Epidemiology Gay Man	Marcquis Cash Patient Service Associate Gay Male
Benjamin Archer, 04C Alum Queer	Daniel Jansen, 13MBA Alumnus Gay Male	Joshua Cowan, 14T Alumnus Gay
David McClurkin, 74C Alumnus Gay	Dennis Flores, III, 12MSN Alumnus Gay Man	John Peterson, 08T MDiv IT Specialist \| Candler School of Theology Queer
Jen Burkholder, 13 MPH/MSN Alumna Lesbian Female	Jared Beverly, 12MDiv Alumnus Gay Man	Aaron Rutledge, 10C Alumnus Gay Male
Michelle Hammond-Susten Clinical Care Coordinator Social Worker II Emory Trauma & Anxiety Recovery Program Dept of Psychiatry Emory School of Medicine Lesbian	Avery Le Faculty \| MacMillan Law Library	Jake Joseph, 14MDiv Alumnus Out Gay Male
Sarah Chambers 14C Alumna \| Political Science and Journalism	Mark Hutcheson Managing Director \| Emory Global Diabetes Research Center Male	Michael Aycock, 66OX 69C 82G Alumnus Gay
Ryan Talley, 15C Alumnus \| Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology Gay Male	Randy Fullerton General Manager \| Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts Gay Male	Marcus Bolton Senior Program Associate Recrutement, Retention and Community Engagement Coordinator Emory Vaccine Center Educated, Black Gay Male
Daniel Murdock Alumnus & Faculty \| Behavioral Sciences & Health Gay Man	Laura Zajac-Cox Instructor \| Division of Physical Therapy School of Medicine Lesbian	Lynwood Miller Study Coordinator \| Emory Vaccine Center Hope Clinic Very Queer
Liz Reynolds, 14C Alumna \| Women's Studies and International Studies Bisexual Female	Jonathan Dollar, 12OX 14C Alumnus \| Math & Education Openly Gay Male	Frederick Godley Program Administrative Assistant Disability Services Male
Melvin Rogers Assistant Professor \| Philosophy Gay Male	Rickey Lunce, 16C Alumnus \| Computer Science Gay Male	Leea Allen 19T Alum & Staff \| Theology
Dylan Frank 20C Student \| Economics and Chinese	Wes Quesenberry-Poteete, 95OX Alumnus Gay	Tony Kimbrell Director of Development \| Oxford College Gay
Jenn Whitehead, 13M Alum Queer Genderqueer	John Bence University Archivist MARBL Gay Man	Tia Webster, 13OX 15C Alumna Queer Lady
DeAnna Beckett Sr. Custodian \| Building & Residential Services Lesbian	Cecile Janssens Research Professor \| Epidemiology Queer	Lauren Gay Special Assistant \| Carter Center Lesbian
Theron Stuart Research Project Coordinator Sr, Community Educator, & Recruiter Emory University School of Medicine The Hope Clinic Gay	James Davis Instructor \| Spanish & Portuguese Gay Male	Kay Kroeger, 15C Alum \| Russian & History All-around Queer
Will Campbell, 14MPH Alum \| Rollins School of Public Health Gay Male	Leo Ragazzo, 16C Alumnus \| Environmental Sciences Gay Cisgender Male	Kayley Scruggs, 17N Alum \| School of Nursing Pansexual Femme
Lanny Gross 10C Alumnus Gay Male	Jordan Montano, 15B Alum Gay Masculine	Jeffrey Sowder Librarian \| Woodruff Library Gay Male
Daniel LaChance Assistant Professor \| History Gay Man	Jeanna Schrimsher 19C Alum \| Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies	Iaah Lucas,16MPH Alum \| Rollins School of Public Health Gay Genderqueer Female
Grant Schleifer, 15C Alum \| Religion Gay Non-binary	Jarquisha Hollings Student Campus Life \| Operations Queer Genderqueer	Atilia Berry Staff Library Specialist, Discrete Collections
Kate Scully MPH16 Alum \| Rollins School of Public Health Queer Lesbian	Patricia Del Rey Adjunct Professor \| Women's Studies Oxford College Lesbian Genderqueer	Tia Williams Program Coordinator \| Center for Women Queer Female
Samantha Allen, 15G Alum \| Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Queer Female	Alisha Smith-Thym Staff \| Community Projects Coordinator Physician Assistant Program	Liz Deans, 15 MPH Family Planning Fellow Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics Bisexual Woman
Frank Gaertner Director of Programming and Learning Initiatives, Residence Life Associate Director, Academic Advising Office for Undergraduate Education Gay Man	Anna Hull, 16MTS Alum Queer Woman	Jacob Davis, 15L Alumnus Gay Cisgender Male
Laura Douglas Brown, 95C 95G Editor, Emory Report Communications & Marketing Lesbian Woman	Katherine Ostrom Lecturer \| Spanish and Portuguese Queer Woman	Erin Johnson, 14MPH Alumna Lesbian Woman
Anthony Chau, 18C Alum Gay Male	James Bowman Harris, 15MDiv Alumnus Gay Male	Vanessa King Librarian \| Law Library Queer Woman
Michael Vaughn, 19G Alum Gay Cisgender Male	Rebecca Head, 18C Alum Lesbian Woman	Kelsey Covington, 17L Alum Queer Gender Bender
Duy Anh Nguyen, 17C Alumnus Gay Man	Laura Briggs 19C Alum \| Chemistry, Dance & Movement, Studies	Kris Haeger, 15MPH Alum Queer/Genderqueer
Dana K. Tucker 13PhD Alum \| Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology	Brigid Choi, 15C Alumna Bisexual Girl	Dian Dian Student \| Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Mary Williams, 17T Alum Queer Female	Ashley Crooks, 16C Alumna Pansexual Woman	Sara Kuhn, 16C Alumna Pansexual Female
Kelsey Owen, 16N Student Lesbian Female	Jonathan Foulds, 10B Alumnus Gay Male	Scot Seitz, 09C Alumnus Gay Man
Lisa Loveall Staff \| Student Involvement, Leadership, and Transitions	Liljuan Gonzalez, 17C Alumnus Queer Male	Khadijah Griffin CNMT Radiology Lesbian Female
Eddie Parsons Senior Technical Consultant \| Office of Technology and Bookstore Relations Gay Man	Anne Daul Faculty \| Emergency Medicine Queer	Paul Nguyen, 16C Student Gay Man
Renée Weese, 02B Alumna Lesbian Female	Brandon O'Hara, 06C 08MPH Alumnus Gay Man	Sara Look, 92C Alumna Queer Femme
Julia Hartman, 73C Alumna Lesbian Woman	Ellen Shapiro, 15C Alumna Gay Woman	Jaclyn Barbarow, 06C Alumna Queer Genderqueer Woman
Robin Huskey Manager of Education & Outreach, Faculty Staff Assistance Program Lesbian Woman	Sumon Ray, 16G Alum Gay Male	Victoria Phoenix, 16G Alum Lesbian Woman
Deah Gooden Academic Technology Specialist School of Medicine Lesbian Female	Ben Ackerman, 14C Alumnus Queer Male	Albert Yoo, 15C Alumnus Bisexual Male
Yonah EtShalom, 15MPH/MSN Alum Queer	Kent Haythorn, 17N (PhD) Student \| Vice President, EHC Surgical Services Gay Man	Torrian Robertson, 17C Student \| Quantitative Social Sciences Flawlessly Gay, Cisgender
Tom Cassaro, 15C Alum \| Postgraduate Fellow, Emory Scholars Program Gay Man	Tim Giordano, 01L Alumnus Gay Male	Rebecca Newton, 17SOM Anesthesiologist Assistant Program Lesbian Female
Marc Padilla Staff \| Emory Hope Clinic Gay Male	Nicole Schladt, 18L Alum Queer Woman	Shannon Clawson, 17MPH Alum Bisexual
Brianna Poovey Alum	Kelly Rhyne, T Student	Tara Noorani 18N Student \| FNP Candidate
Eleni Demestihas Student \| Playwriting	Mariah Valentine-Graves Staff \| PRISM Health	Jamie Harrell Alumna Lesbian Transgender Female
Paula Quezada 19C Alum \| African American Studies

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