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Keynote Speaker: Kand McQueen

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Kand holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Inquiry Methodology and currently teaches statistics in the College of Education at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana. Kand’s research interests include assessing attitudes toward the atypically gendered and deconstructing the two-and-only-two sex/two gender paradigm. Kand has conducted presentations and workshops concerning gender identity and transgenderism at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) at Chicago, Illinois, Come Together Kentucky Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Conference at Bowling Green, Kentucky, the Translating Identity Conference at Burlington, Vermont, the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) at Pheasant Run, Illinois, the University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia, for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) in Indianapolis, Indiana, and at the Indiana University Incidents Team Retreat at Bloomington, Indiana.

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Keynote Speaker: LZ Granderson

Friday, October 17th, 2008
LZ Granderson is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com, as well as a regular contributor for ESPN’s Sports Center, Outside the Lines and First Take. Perhaps the most visible openly gay sports journalist in the nation, Mr. Granderson broke the Sheryl Swoopes coming out story in 2005 and has been at the fore of the gays in sports discussion for much of his 13-year career, ruffling the feathers of liberals and conservatives alike with his matter-of-fact approach to that and other subjects.

But Mr. Granderson did not grow to become one of the most popular columnists for ESPN by being a one trick pony. The one time Detroit gang member has tackled other pivotal topics such as race, gender and politics. While other sports columnists may focus on how the game is played, Mr. Granderson focuses on who is playing the game, and who is watching them. LZ has interviewed sports greats including Terrell Owens, Roger Federer, and David Beckham.

Prior to joining ESPN first as a magazine editor and later as a writer, Mr. Granderson was a sports columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A member of the National Association of Black Journalists, Mr. Granderson also served on the board for the National Lesbian Gay Journalist Association and was a Columbia University Hechinger Institute Fellow. He won first place in the opinion writing category for the 2008 Excellence in Journalism awards given by the National Lesbian Gay Journalist Association for his article stemming out of his experiencing anti-gay slurs in New Orleans during NBA All-Star Weekend.

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