This panel discussion will feature faculty members and students from across varied academic disciplines to discuss language and its impacts on and within LGBTQA+ communities. Each speaker will share their thoughts on the topic and then student moderators will each ask a series of prompted questions followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Panelists:

Dr. Carlos Santos, Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Social Welfare, Luskin School of Public Affairs

Dr. Mitchell Morris, Interim Director of LBGTQ Studies; Professor of Musicology, Herb Alpert School of Music

Ohene Yaw Ampofo-Anti, Sonke Health & Human Rights Fellow, LLM Candidate, Class of 2019

Dr. Bianca Wilson, Rabbi Barbara Zacky Senior Scholar of Public Policy, Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law; Affiliate faculty member of the California Center for Population Research at UCLA

Undergraduate student co-moderators:

Sohini Halder, Class of 2021, Pre-Human Biology & Society

Vanessa Warri, Class of 202, Anthropology & Sociology