Rosa Yadira, 22, is a DePaul University graduate and is planning to enter graduate school in fall 2005. At DePaul, she majored in Spanish and Latin American and Latina/o Studies and helped start TGLOBAL, a queers-of-color organization dedicated to acknowledging the diverse identities of the GLBT community. As a self-identified queer xicana, Rosa’s activism has included raising awareness of GLBT people of color and striving to increase the discussion of queer-women-of-color in connection to race, class, gender and sexuality. She has presented her research on the Mexican lesbian-feminist movement at the annual conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies for the last three years and has participated in the planning of the Dyke March for the last two.
She works at the Center for Halsted’s Youth Program and has produced programs, and conducted case management and HIV testing there. She has presented educational programs at schools, which focus on creating safe spaces for GLBT youth, as well as the problem of domestic violence within the GLBT community.
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