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Join us as Salvador discusses the initiative on campus at El Camino College as it relates to addressing the needs of the queer students on campus and everyone who supports them or wants to learn more about them. He will touch on the importance of all communities coming together in order to seek justice for this individuals and all human beings as what happens to one group will inevitably impact another one.

 
About this evening's presenter:
Salvador Navarro identifies as a gay male and utilizes he, him, his gender pronouns. He is the second oldest sibling of 3 sisters. He was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and immigrated to this country at the early age of 12. He is a first-generation college student and remains the first in his family to obtain a higher education degree. He graduated with a Bachelor?s degree in Communication from the University of Southern California. He also holds a Master?s degree in Social Work from the California State University of Long Beach, where he continued to learn the importance of healing, human connection, and viewing one another as one.

For the past 11+ years, he has worked in the field of television media, human services, and higher education. Today, he devotes his time to being a Community College Counselor at El Camino College (ECC) where he has the opportunity to work with a diverse student population in guiding them in finding their life?s purpose. Additionally, he is the Chair Committee for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, Intersex, Ally (LGBTQIA+) Safe Zone Project Initiative at his campus. This effort aims to raise the voice and visibility of queer students of color, while also inviting the ECC and South Bay community to engage in bringing justice to these loving individuals.

In his capacity as writer and public speaker, he has been featured in publications like the HuffPost and interviewed for the top Spanish speaking network Univision for his work in this community. Through his work, he hopes to inspire and empower individuals to become active agents of change in their own lives and very importantly in the lives of others as well.

During his spare time, he enjoys traveling, spending time with family and friends, working out, reading self-help books, and creating new opportunities that can shed light to the world.