The Speaker's Bureau

The Speaker’s Bureau is a popular educational program coordinated by the GLBT Student Services Office. It has been a valuable educational tool used to inform students about the often times misunderstood issues surrounding gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth and their families.

This session usually consists of two to four students, who are part of the GLBT or ally community, coming into a classroom, residence hall, or workshop environment in a panel-type format. Each student would give a brief personal background and then would field questions from the group. This has been a very effective and popular tool used more and more with each passing semester by a variety of departments on campus.

Perhaps the most valuable piece to you as possible hosts of a Speaker’s Bureau is our ability to format the panel to the individual needs and topics of your class or student group. For instance, if you want a panel to focus primarily on their experience of trying to reconcile their religious and GLBT identities we can select students whom we know can share a lot on that topic.

Although the speaker's bureau program had been coordinated for years by the Student Organization for Gays, Lesbian, and Bisexuals, with the creation of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Services office, SOGLB has relinquished the time consuming task of coordinating the Speaker’s Bureau Program to the staffed office in order to focus on their own needs as a student organization.

If you are interested in using this program to enhance your curriculum or community, or for more information, please contact the GLBT Student Services Office at 491-4342 or print a request form and mail it in.

Make a human connection.

If you're interesting in volunteering to be on a speaker's bureau panel, please fill out our application (pdf, 32kb) and drop it off in the office. You do not have to be a student at CSU to be on a panel. Just a reminder, put an "X" in the boxes that correspond to the time that you cannot volunteer. Also, the "discreet" option at the top is a yes or no question letting us in the office know if we need to be discreet when contacting you, such as not saying we're from GLBT Student Services.