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Victoria Threshier ’22 recently started her career as the new LGBTQ+ advocate at Sojourner House, a nonprofit that has served more than 60,000 survivors of domestic abuse, sexual violence and human trafficking over its 45-year history. “This role feels like what I want to do with the rest of my life,” says Threshier, who interned at Sojourner House for two semesters while a student at RIC. “I want to advocate for people, which I’ve always felt has been my purpose here on earth.”

RIC has a new minor in queer studies, thanks to the initiative of a small group of students. An umbrella term, queerness is broadly used to refer to individuals and identities that are currently understood as culturally non-normative, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersexed, asexual and others.

Hear the Voices of Women Leading from the Top: Part II Page Content In recent years, across all levels of government, an unprecedented number of women have been elected to public office, many of whom are the first woman of their background to hold such a position. Likewise, a historic number of women at Rhode Island College have taken on top leadership positions. They are seasoned and they are young, they are white and they are women of color, some of them speak more than one language but they all come ready. They sit on the President's Executive Cabinet. They are the majority on the Provost ...