Queer Discussion Groups

The Office of LGBT Life and the Center for Women provide three queer discussion groups during the academic year. These groups meet weekly for an hour and focus on topics related to sexual and gender identities. These groups currently include:

Queer Students of Color Group
Mondays-7:00 p.m.
Office of LGBT Life-246E Dobbs University Center
This group explores ways to celebrate identities and navigate a predominately white, hetero/gendernormative campus as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and/or intersex people of color. This group is for students who identity as queer students of color.

Queer Women’s Group
Tuesdays-7:00 p.m.
Center for Women-Cox Hall
This group explores the joys and challenges of being a queer, trans, lesbian, bisexual, same-gender loving, and/or pansexual woman at Emory. This group is for students who identify as queer women.

Queer Interfaith Group
Thursdays-7:00 p.m.
Office of LGBT Life-246E Dobbs University Center
This group explores ways of integrating one’s religion, spirituality, sexual identity and gender identity. This group is for students who identify as queer students of faith.

Meet the Discussion Group Faciliators

Paul Choi-Queer Students of Color Group Facilitator

I am a senior at the college majoring in N.B.B. and American Studies. While I am "pre-med," I am in no rush to set foot into medical school. I am currently trying to realize the most effective way in which I can utilize my interest in health to help bring about social justice for the LGBT community.

I am very excited to co-facilitate the Queer Students of Color Discussion Group this year. I hope to help empower and build community with fellow queer students of color. I am enjoying my last year in college and am planning to take a year off after graduation to work in some aspect of health advocacy.

Raphael Coleman-Queer Students of Faith Group Facilitator

I am a Co-facilitator for the Queer InterFaith Discussion Group. I am an alumnus of Emory College and hold a BS in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology. I have served in several capacities for the University as a student and as an alum. I worked for the Office of LGBT Life as a student staff member during my senior year in the college. Over the past year I served as  Residence Hall Director Fellow for the Office of Health Promotion at Emory Student Health and Counseling Services. I have a strong interest in studying the socio-contextual determinants of health and conducting prevention science research to further understand and minimize health disparities. I am now studying at the Rollins School of Public Health in the Behavioral Science and Health Education Program to earn my MPH. My future goal is to continue my studies in a PhD program and ultimately work professionally as a prevention scientist and/or professor.

I am thrilled to serve as a facilitator this year with hopes of better understanding the intersections between sexual identity and faith, and the challenges of reconciliation.

Monica Evans-Queer Women's Group Facilitator

I am a 2nd year Master of Divinity student at Candler School of Theology. I am a writer and thinker who hopes to continue my education with a PhD in Religious Studies where I will focus on spirituality, queer identity and community. I enjoy meeting and learning about new people, places and things. I loves people, books, art and Piedmont Park. I am excited to work with the Queer Women's Group, and look forward to meeting you.

Lacey Hudspeth-Queer Students of Faith Group Facilitator

I am an Emory Graduate student working on a masters in Religion and Science. I am starting my second year, and when I finish I am looking to pursue a PhD in Philosophy and Physics. I enjoy softball, traveling, coffee, vegan food, TV dramas and yoga. 

Meghan Jordan-Queer Women's Group Facilitator

I am a sophomore in the college. I am double majoring in Computer Science and Music.  I am a true activist and am involved with Students and Workers in Solidarity and am currently in the process of creating a general activism organization at Emory. I love Emory and am extremely involved in multiple organizations on campus. In my free time you will most likely find me listening to music or reading a good book.

Shu Wen Ong-Queer Students of Color Group Facilitator

I am Singaporean, and an English and Psychology major. This is my first time being a facilitator of this discussion group and I look forward to learning more this coming year - I hope that our members will too! I believe that our different identities do not and cannot exist in isolation. As such, I aim to create a space for celebrating and examining all that makes us unique, without having to compartmentalise our identities.