PRIDE Annual Report 2020 | Page 14

PLANNING FOR LGBT HISTORY MONTH

At that July 13 Board meeting , two individuals were selected to join the MPST Board – Justin Colmenero and Bill Richmond . The Board decided to hold open meetings on a quarterly basis with LGBTQIA + organizations and stakeholders to give them a chance to expand cooperation and communication . The first meeting would be held August 13 . The first quarterly stakeholder meeting included Crystal Garcia – Revolve One Podcast and a Field Organizer for a political campaign ; Rev . Chris Hockman – Uniterian Universalist Church ; Barton Bailey – Corpus Christi resident ; Scott Elliff – TAMUCC professor , retired Corpus Christi ISD Superintendent , Board member of Equality Texas ( Scott talked about the Equality Texas Corpus Christi virtual event on Aug . 19 at 6 p . m .); Angie Baker – Coastal Bend PRIDE Center Coordinator , and Robert Garcia – Vice President , LULAC Para Todos . Board members Jonathan Swindle and Randy Stubbs discussed their efforts to produce a variety of programming during the month of October for LGBT History Month . Focused on interviews , Zoom meetings and podcasts with
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