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Global Careers for LGBTQ Folk
October 5, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Members of the LGBTQ+ community play key roles in international business, diplomacy, advocacy, and scholarship, but they can also face unique challenges in global careers because of their sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression (on top of all the other challenges of global careers). This panel brings together members of the LGBTQ+ community who are navigating careers that cross borders and tackle international issues to talk about some of the continuing challenges, unique opportunities, and best strategies for pursuing global careers as a queer person.
Our panelists come from different sectors and work on different parts of the world:
- Lacy Ferrell is an historian of West Africa at the University of Central Washington and a member of the AHA Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession.
- Anna Kirey got her MA in Eastern European and Russian Studies from UNC and has been active in NGOs promoting LGBTQ rights in Eastern Europe.
- Camilo Ramirez is a UNC and Transatlantic Masters alum and worked for various NGOs in Washington (WRI, HRC, Brookings) for the past decade. He is currently living in Ecuador with his partner Andrew, a first year FSO officer.
The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Holning Lau, a scholar of law and LGBTQ rights and Willie Person Mangum Professor of Law at UNC with an expertise on Asia.
This panel will take place virtually on Zoom.
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