Speaker Panels
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Speaker Panels are a great way to alert and educate Ball State students and faculty about many factors in the GLBTSA community. For those of you who have not had the privilege of experiencing a speaker panel, it is really a simple concept. A faculty member at Ball State requests a speaker panel when he or she wishes to inform a particular class or group of people about the GLBTSA community. This person gets a hold of the speaker panel coordinator, Spectrum Vice President Damon Clevenger (dtclevenger@bsu.edu), and they set up a place and time for the panel to take place. A few members of the speaker panel committee then get together and speak to the class about a very wide range of GLBT related issues. The session begins with each panel member telling his or her coming out story (yes, even straight allies have coming out stories,) then that is followed by a question and answer session. If you think you may want to do speaker panels in the future, contact any executive board member for more information.
