Our Team

Darius Adams

he/him/his
Graduate Assistant
adamsd22@msu.edu
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Darius Adams serves as a graduate assistant for the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center (GSCC). He is a second-year in the Student Affairs Administration Master’s program at MSU. Darius received a Bachelor’s degree from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Organizational Leadership with a minor in Human Resource Management. In addition to his role at the GSCC, Darius works as an assistant community director for Residence Education and Housing Services (REHS) at MSU. Darius’ main role at the GSCC involves the development and implementation of programs and events that center the identities of queer and transgender students of color. He is passionate about equity, racial justice and ensuring college campuses are inclusive environments that allow students to thrive and show up as their whole self. Aside from his professional interests, Darius enjoys reading, shopping and spending time relaxing near large bodies of water.

Morgan Doherty

(they/them/theirs)
Coordinator
dohert19@msu.edu
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Morgan is the coordinator for the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center. They’re a Lansing local; an MSU alum; the former facilitator of the TRUE LGBTQ+ Teen Support Group at the Salus Center; and a reformed librarian who would still love to recommend some gay books for you. Morgan is a founding member of Tender Heart Gardens, a queer and trans gardening collective in Lansing, and board president of Capital United Land Trust. They love being outside, reading things, growing things, eating things, and spending time with their chosen family.

Student organizations
GSCC operations
Volunteering with The GSCC
The GSCC newsletter and social media

Molly Griffin

(they/them/theirs)
MSW Student Intern
griff548@msu.edu
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Molly is a first year Master of Clinical Social Work student and is the MSW student intern for the 2021-2022 school year. They graduated from Michigan State University in 2019 with bachelors degrees in Neuroscience and History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science. Molly currently works as a laboratory technician for the undergraduate neuroscience teaching laboratory, and they have a passion for working with young adults and college students. After graduating, they hope to continue working with fellow members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community by providing individual therapy that is person-centered and trauma-informed. In their free time, you can find Molly cuddling their cats, cross-stitching, visiting thrift and antique stores, playing music, and spending time in nature.

Camille Hollenquest

they/they
Student Assistant
hollenq1@msu.edu

Camille is currently one of the student assistants in the LGBT Resource center, who can all be considered the backbone of the center. Camille is also the President for the United Brody Black Caucus, former President of Pride POCC, and a Peer Educator for the Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention program and many more involvements on campus. They are a Senior undergraduate student majoring in Political Science: Pre Law, minoring in Human Development and Family Studies and hope to pursue a career in LGBTQ+ family law. Camille enjoys social justice, cats of all kinds and the color yellow.

Abby Jaroszewicz

she/her/hers
Student Affairs Administration Practicum Student
jarosze2@msu.edu

Abby Jaroszewicz is a rising second-year masters student in the Student Affairs Administration program. As a double-Spartan, Abby received her undergraduate degree in English with minors in Linguistics and Women’s and Gender Studies from MSU in 2020. During her time at MSU, Abby interned for the Honors College, the Citizen Scholars Program, and the ISHALL program. She also co-created the “Reading Buddies” program at the East Lansing Public Library. This past year Abby worked with the Neighborhood Student Success Collaborative in their Circles of Success program, and next year she will be a graduate assistant with the Writing Center. Abby has lived in Michigan her whole life, first in Grand Rapids and most recently in Brighton, Michigan. She is passionate about student development and student support, and she looks forward to advocating for positive change at the university-level. After graduate school, Abby hopes to work in a co-curricular space at a university, such as a writing center or education abroad office. In her free time, Abby enjoys cooking, playing Dungeons and Dragons with friends, crocheting, playing on her Nintendo Switch, and listening to music in her car way too loud. Her favorite Dairy Store flavor is Honors Coffee Toffee.

Oprah Jrenal

she/her/hers or just Oprah
Assistant Director
oprah@msu.edu

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Oprah Jrenal is the Assistant Director for the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center. In this role, she advises student groups and GSCC staff in their efforts to create supportive environments in which LGBTQ students can thrive. Oprah has served in residential life at institutions across the country. She has experience presenting on topics such as intersectionality, being a person of color (global majority) in predominately White spaces, White supremacy, supporting undocumented students, and community building, to name a few. Oprah is ecstatic to be joining the Spartan family. She earned her bachelors in Creative Writing with an emphasis in poetry from the University of Arizona and a masters in higher education from the University of Kansas. Oprah is pleased to share her light and love with MSU. Oprah has been with the LBGTRC since January 2018.

Email Oprah with Questions about:

Joining LGBTQ student organizations
How to Tell Someone they said/did something Racist (homophobic, transphobic, etc.)
Advocacy and Support Needs
Event/Program Ideas
Leadership and Supervision of GSCC Staff
Navigating Microaggressions

Valentine McWilliams

she/her/hers
Student Assistant
mcwill58@msu.edu

Valentine McWilliams is a third-year undergraduate student with her major in English and her concentration in Creative Writing, and is working as an assistant in the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center. Since she arrived on campus, Valentine has been engaged in activism to improve the lives of transgender people at MSU. She is an executive board member of TransAction and the transcend caucus, as well as being a member of the board of The Alliance of Queer and Ally Students. In addition to these roles, Valentine is also a Resident Assistant in North Neighborhood, and aims to use her position to help first-year queer and trans students feel welcome on campus. In her writing, Valentine aims to tell stories which cause audiences to think about death, memory, and queer identity, and the stories that lie at the intersections of those three things. She is passionate about death positivity and activism, and wants to help audiences reframe their grief and recognize the ways death is treated in American culture. Aside from her interest in activism, Valentine also enjoys doing makeup, playing her bass guitar, playing video games like Stardew Valley, WarioWare, and Hades, and listening to audio fiction- her favorite shows are Me and AU, Brimstone Valley Mall, and ars PARADOXICA.

Heather Shea

she/her/hers
Interim Director
hshea@msu.edu

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Heather Shea will be serving as the interim director of the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, while also serving MSU as the director of Women*s Student Services and affiliate faculty with the Student Affairs Administration MA program. As student affairs educator, Heather is committed to reflective and sustainable practice while preparing the next generation of educational leaders to lead from a place of equity and justice.

Heather’s career in student affairs spans over two decades at five different campuses and involves experiences in many different functional areas including residence life, multicultural affairs, women, gender, student activities, leadership development, and commuter/non-traditional student services, and LGBTQIA2S+ programs—she identifies as a student affairs generalist. She also identifies as a feminist, mother, cisgender, pansexual, and (as evidenced by the picture and gray hair) GenX, white woman.

Prior to coming to Michigan to pursue her PhD, Heather served as the director of the University of Idaho Women’s Center. During her tenure, she and her colleagues founded the first LGBTQA Office at the University of Idaho—creating an essential resource and source of support for college students in a rural conservative state. Today, in her dual roles as director of WSS and interim director of GSCC, she is deeply committed to working together with all who value coalition building to create individual, structural, systemic, and organizational change to support LGBTQIA2S+ and women* students, faculty, and staff so all members of the community can learn, love, grow, and thrive.

Email Heather with questions about:

Socially just assessment methods
Support and advocacy for LGBTQA+ students
Gender and Sexuality Campus Center goals, mission, and focus
LGBTQA+ and women’s center better practices and benchmarking in higher education
Working toward racial justice as a white person

Gender and Sexuality Campus Center Liaisons

Ginny Blakely, LMSW

she/her/hers
Counseling and Psychiatric Services Liaison
blakelyv@msu.edu

Ginny is from Holly, MI and began working at MSU in September of 2016. Ginny is an Americorps VISTA alumni, a Third-Wave Deadhead, and an Out and Proud Queer Lesbian. Ginny has prior experience with Appalachian Community Mental Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Therapy; Intensive Home-Based Services; Serving Homeless/Runaway/Throwaway LGBTQI+ youth; and Post-Adoption and Attachment work. She loves disc golf, legos, rainbows, people, exploring, traveling, comics, games, and food.

Email Ginny with questions about:

Identity development
Mental Health
Resources
Self-care
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Support Groups
General CAPS and Olin questions

Josh Kim

he/him/his
Writing Center Liaison
kimjosh@msu.edu

Josh (he/him/his) is a first-year Master of Clinical Social Work student and a graduate coordinator at the Michigan State University Writing Center. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan in 2013 and a Master’s in English from Penn State in 2015. He is a Lansing area native who would love nothing more than to talk about local restaurant recommendations. In his role as liaison for the Writing Center to the GSCC, Josh aims to forge strong bonds between these two major resources for students on campus and develop programming to support the specific academic needs of LGBTQIA2S+ Spartans. When he’s all grown up, Josh hopes to provide mental health assistance and resources to LGBTQIA2S+ folx through narrative therapies and substance use/addiction treatment and support. In his rapidly dwindling spare time, Josh loves to cook, read comics, and play games of all sorts with his partner.

The Gender and Sexuality Campus Center