LGBTQI+ Voices Roundtable

Shalisa Gladney, Kiara Lee, Khirin Carter, and Liat Wexler   

Join this authentic conversation between three Black, queer experts in DV prevention and intervention: Khirin Carter, Shalisa Gladney, and Kiara Lee as they paint a vision of an anti-violence movement that fundamentally centers Black LGBTQIA+ people and discuss what’s needed to achieve it. This roundtable models what it means to “center the margins.”

Shalisa Gladney

Shalisa is an educator, doula and advocate passionate about community activism, education and grassroots organizing, especially within Black communities. As a Violence Prevention Educator, she specializes in consent, healthy relationships, dismantling rape culture, and responding to disclosures. In addition to her work at the University of Iowa, she provides postpartum care for survivors and educates other birth workers about the  of everyday consent into their practices and explorative consent workshops for queer kink communities. Shalisa is a Black, queer, womanist. 

Kiara Lee

Kiara Lee (they/them) is the Associate Director for Survivor Support Services at the PATH to Care Center at UC Berkeley. They are a healer and consultant passionate about creating more opportunities and outlets for collective healing and liberation. For the past 12 years, Kiara has been working to support and advocate for survivors of relationship and sexual violence.  Kiara acknowledges that self-care and healing is a radical act of resistance and wants to create space for more people to engage in it. Kiara is also a pet parent to two pups, Marley & Ashby.

Khirin Carter

Khirin (she/her) is a Southern California native, who attended Grambling State University and earned both a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Criminal Justice. Khirin received her Master’s Degree in Sociology with an emphasis in educational inequality and criminology from the University of Iowa. As the Graduate Prevention Program Manager at the PATH to Care Center, Khirin is responsible for coordinating primary prevention education efforts for graduate and professional students. She works closely with academic departments and other campus partners to implement interventions that promote the health, well-being, and a culture of anti-violence among the campus community.

Liat Wexler

Liat Wexler has worked to end domestic violence and sexual assault since 2000 including roles in direct service, fundraising, and board of directors. They specialize in violence in LGBTQIA+, polyamorous, and BDSM communities. As the Prevention Manager for Faculty & Staff at UC Berkeley’s PATH to Care Center, they focus on primary prevention in the workplace. Liat's identities include queer, genderqueer, femme, white, hard-of-hearing, raised with enough material wealth, bi-national, and survivor.