Rex Jackson Author & Editor

Jason C. Garvey is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs in the Department of Leadership and Developmental Sciences at the University of Vermont and a Research Associate with Campus Pride’s Q Research Institute for Higher Education. Dr. Garvey is the recipient of the 2014 Scholar-Activist Dissertation of the Year Award awarded by the Queer Studies Special Interest Group within the American Educational Researcher Association. Dr. Garvey formerly served as Director of Education for CLGBTA and is currently on the Commission for Professional Preparation Directorate, both within ACPA.

Stephanie H. Chang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Counseling & Personnel Services and Administration (CSPA) program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the Director of Student Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Delaware. Prior to this role, Stephanie served as the Director for Education with ACPA’s SCLGBTA from 2011-2013. She has also served on the executive board of the National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education.

Dr. Z Nicolazzo is an associate professor of Trans* Studies in Education in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Z’s research explores how discourses of gender pervade and mediate college environments, with particular attention paid to trans people. Additionally, her latest scholarship focuses on how trans people cultivate future possible selves through digital/online platforms, as well as how higher education invests in the logics of transmisogyny. Her first book, Trans* in college: Transgender students’ strategies for navigating campus life and the institutional politics of inclusion, was awarded the 2017 American Educational Research Association Division J Publication of the Year Award, and was published by Stylus in 2017.

Rex Jackson is the Associate Director for Residence Life at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He previously served as a Community Director and as the Assistant Director of Residence Life for the First Year Communities at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Rex is a past Vice-Chair for Social Responsibility/Civic Engagement/Pluralism and Inclusion on the directorate body for ACPA’s CHRL.

Kathleen G. Kerr serves as the associate vice president for Student Life at the University of Delaware (UD). Kerr provides leadership to enhance the operations, programs, and services for Residence Life and Housing (RLH), the Office of Orientation and Transition Programs, the university student centers, fraternity and sorority leadership and learning, student wellness and health promotion, the Center for Counseling and Student Development, and Student Health Services. She is also an assistant professor in UD’s Department of Human Development and Family Sciences.