LGBTQ+: Building Understanding and Awareness
Class | Registration opens Tuesday, February 4, 2025 10:00 AM
The last decade has seen unprecedented advances for the LGBTQ+ community coupled with unprecedented assaults. Now, more than ever, those of us who consider ourselves LGBTQ+ allies or advocates are called upon to move beyond our benevolent preconceptions and embrace courageous curiosity. Join this real-talk “tell me the things I don’t know so I can do better,” interactive session led by Anne Shelley, a longtime LGBTQ+ community organizer and educator. Anne is known in the University of Arkansas community as having 20+ years’ experience facilitating critical conversations regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This class will meet in person at the OLLI offices, located at 481 S. Shiloh Drive, Fayetteville, AR 72704. Please read your class reminder email for the exact room location.
Class changes occasionally happen, please watch for (and read) announcements or emails from OLLI regarding your class.
Click on the link below for a Google map shot of our location:
OLLI HQ, 481 S. Shiloh Dr., Fay 72704
Anne Shelley
Shelley was the former Senior Trainer, Facilitator and Consultant for the IDEALS Institute at UA. IDEALS was a
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training, consultancy and research institute dedicated to creating diverse, equitable, and
inclusive workplaces and communities. Her work has included statewide LGBTQ organizing for the Women’s Project, whose mission was to fight racism, sexism, and homophobia and as executive director at the NWA Center for Sexual Assault serving adult survivors of sexual violence and their loved ones. She has served on numerous boards and advisory councils in the region.