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2020
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Keynotes

CSU Inspire: Colette Sterling

Colette Sterling (She/Her/Hers) is a current graduate student in the Student Affairs in Higher Education program at Colorado State University. She is a graduate assistant for Parent and Family Programs and a Chapter Graduate Advisor for Fraternity and Sorority Life. Colette is also an alum of CSU, having graduated in 2019 with her BA in Communication Studies and a minor in Business Administration.

Over the past four years, Colette has been visibly outspoken and sassy about the needs of the trans community at CSU and in higher education more broadly. She uses her lived narratives to humanize the struggles and joys of being trans and queer, sharing her experiences on public platforms like this one.

Colette is inspired by the potential of merging trans and queer activism with intersectionality contextualized around higher education. She incorporates healthy doses of sarcasm to help envision new possibilities for transgender and gender expansive peoples. Colette will be speaking about "Leading While Trans: Thriving Beyond the 'Cis'tem."

Other Symposium videos:

2020
Dismantling Whiteness in Our Work
2023
Music Cultivates Community: Combining Social Work Values and Music Therapy Practice in Pueblo

Presented by Claire Schad

2020
“What’s the Matter with Me?”: Self-Care Advice
2020
Women in the Workplace An Intersectional Look Beyond the Wage Gap
2020
The Line is Too Long
2023
Elevating and Connecting: Asset Mapping Identity-Based Efforts to Foster Place and Space of Belonging