Samantha Wehbi

Samantha Wehbi, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University in Montreal, Canada Keith Goddard, MA, is a musician and composer. He is the Development Director for KUNZWANA Trust (since 1990) Nelly Jitsuya was born in Peru of Japanese descent. She first became toon meer involved in the Peruvian feminist movement in 1980 through her activism in the socialist feminist group Mujeres en Lucha (Women in Struggle) and the magazine Mujer y Sociedad (Women and Society). She was co-founder of the women's coffee shop La Otra Cara de la Luna in 1983 and of Grupo de Autoconciencia de Lesbianas Feministas-GALF-in 1984 Diane Labelle is a Two-Spirited woman of Mohawk heritage living in the Montreal area. She completed graduate level courses in political science at McGill University, and holds a graduate diploma in education. She presently works as an elementary school teacher and an educational consultant Fiona Meyer-Cook is a Two-Spirited woman of African-Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) and Scottish descent. She supervises students for Project Interaction: the gay, lesbian, bisexual and Two-Spirited resource of the McGill School of Social Work; is a consultant for the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal Omar Nahas is a researcher at the Yoesuf foundation, was born in Damascus-Syria in 1964 and has lived since 1989 in the Netherlands. He studied languages and cultures of the Middle East at the Catholic University of Nijmegen and gay and lesbian studies at the University of Amsterdam. Nahas has written a book and several articles on Islam and homosexuality Michele Roy is a community organizer who has been involved in women's activism for several decades. She is currently the Outreach Worker for the Quebec Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres Rebeca Sevilla, born in Peru, is an activist for lesbian and gay rights Prior to returning to Asia in 1995, Chung To lived in the U.S. for 13 years, where he was active in gay Asian American activism. He presently resides in Hong Kong Samantha Wehbi, MSW, PhD, has a background in activism on a broad range of social justice and human rights issues including organizing against homophobia and heterosexism toon minder