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Dr. Ronni Sanlo Talks LGBTQ History, An Educator’s Life, and the Vanishing L

December 10, 2019 /

Join me for a chat with Dr. Ronni Sanlo as we talk about her dedication to LGBTQ history, her life as an educator, her perspective on vanishing lesbian spaces, and the need to preserve our LGBTQ legacy.

About Dr. Ronni Sanlo:

Author, LGBT historian, and playwright Dr. Ronni Sanlo (UF ’69, UNF ’89, UNF ’96) is the Director Emeritus of the UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center (LGBT) Center and a frequent keynote speaker and consultant on LGBT issues in Higher Education. Now retired, Dr. Sanlo was director of the UCLA LGBT Center and professor/director of the UCLA Masters of Education in Student Affairs as well as a Faculty in Residence. Prior to coming to UCLA in 1997, Dr. Sanlo was the director of the LGBT Center at the University of Michigan.

In a previous life, Dr. Sanlo was an HIV epidemiologist in Florida from 1987-1994. Ronni developed the initial standards and guidelines for LGBT work with the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) and was founding chair of the Consortium of LGBT Professionals in Higher Education. Ronni is the originator of the award-winning Lavender Graduation, a commencement event that celebrates the lives and achievements of graduating LGBTQ college students. Ronni continues to research and write with a focus on LGBT history which is the foundation for her play Dear Anita Bryant. She and her wife Dr. Kelly Watson have been deeply involved in the current Resistance movement, travel and bike ride domestically and internationally, and enjoy their boat Strait Knot. They live in Palm Springs, CA and Sequim, WA. Ronni may be emailed at ronnisanlo @ gmail.com.

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