About
Meet the Staff
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Lauryn McNair, MSW
Assistant Dean of Wellbeing and Belonging
Pronouns: She/They
E-mail: Lmcnair@mit.edu
Office: 50-250
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Jeremy Torres, M.Ed.
Associate Director of Wellbeing and Belonging
Pronouns: He, Him, His and They, Them, Theirs
E-mail: ejtorres@mit.edu
Office: 3-308G and 50-250
Rainbow Lounge Student Workers
LBGTQ+ Services provides paid employment opportunities for students to engage their leadership, design, programming, and peer counseling skills. Any currently enrolled MIT graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to contact us via e-mail at lbgt@mit.edu if interested in being on the waitlist for future opportunities. We are all set for this academic year.
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LBGTQ+ MIT History
LBGTQ+ Services has a robust history of challenges and successes The Story of LBGTQ Life at MIT captures many of these events among others. This page captures many of these events among other contextual information regarding LBGTQ-inclusion in Massachusetts and beyond.
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Guiding Principles
Mission
With a primary focus on students, our mission is to ensure a safe and supportive campus-wide community where students of diverse gender, romantic, and sexual identities are all welcomed as equals.
Vision
MIT's educational mission supports and embraces all of our diverse individual identities including those with marginalized romantic/sexual orientations, gender identities, and intersex people. MIT is a diverse place where all aspects of people's identities are welcomed and integrated into the fabric of MIT, where all members of the MIT community are taking steps to learn about various marginalized identities, and where all individuals are respected for who they are, free from any prejudice, harassment, or discrimination.
Values
- We educate and uplift the MIT community about the diversity of identities including ace, genderqueer, intersex, nonbinary, pansexual, trans and many more.
- We practice and encourage open, honest, and respectful discussion.
- We encourage others to examine their assumptions, and to embrace who they are and who others are.
- We help develop a safe, supportive and equitable environment.
- We work to build a community that welcomes all experiences and identities.
- We collaborate with other groups and offices to address issues of social justice on campus including race, class, gender, and sexual orientation amongst others.
- We advocate for diverse leadership at all levels of MIT.
