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Thursday, April 12 • 2:45pm - 3:40pm
Media Matters: Why Matt Shepard's Death Captured the World's Attention and The "Big Picture" Impact

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An exploration of why Shepard's murder became the focus of media and community attention, the impact it had and what it means for the larger LBGTQ and allied community. Join activists, experts and voices from the front lines fighting hate violence in LGBTQ communities.
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Marilyn Bennett

Marilyn Bennett – Director & Producer From Selma to Stonewall: Are We There Yet? Author, activist, video biographer, non-profit consultant with a long career in social justice working with LGBTQ equality and the church. She was Executive Director of Reconciling Ministries Network... Read More →
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Rod Caspers

University of Texas at Austin
Rod Caspers served as the executive director of University Events at the University of Texas at Austin – creating and producing special events. Prior to that he served as the executive director of Creative Services for the UT System where he and colleagues received five Lone Star... Read More →
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Jim Osborn

Pr Title IX Coord, Mgr EORR, University of Wyoming
Jim Osborn, who was the President of the LGBT student group at the University in 1998 and a friend of Matt’s.His tireless efforts since have helped change the lives of LGBT people in Wyoming and beyond. Jim is one of the founders of “Angel Action” which took the media by a storm... Read More →
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Barbara Poma

Owner of the Pulse nightclub and CEO ~ Executive Director onePULSE
Barbara Poma, owner of the Pulse nightclub and CEO ~ Executive Director onePULSE Foundation, IncFor more information or to support onePULSE Foundation 501(c)3  please visit: www.onePULSEFoundation.org Since the mass shooting at Pulse, Poma has worked tirelessly to promote sensible gun control and is working to create a memorial at the site of the Pulse nightclub to honor the 49 lives lost and educate the public with the message “We will not lethal win... Read More →
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Cathy Renna

Communications Director, National LGBTQ Task Force
Cathy Renna joins the National LGBTQ Task Force as Communications Director but is no stranger to the organization. As a longtime supporter and contractor on projects over the years and a regular presence at Creating Change, she has been part of the Task Force’s extended family for... Read More →

Thursday April 12, 2018 2:45pm - 3:40pm MDT
Central Ballroom - Streaming University of Wyoming Student Union
  Featured Panel
  • about Cathy Renna is the Principal of Target Cue, a premiere public relations and communications firm that focuses on LGBT and HIV related issues and provides media training, strategic and crisis communications services to diverse non-profit organizations. Renna has particular expertise in crisis and strategic communications and played a central role while at GLAAD in shaping media coverage of the beating death of Matthew Shepard in 1998, a tragedy that became a cultural marker for a shift in media visibility of LGBTQ issues. She was on the ground in Laramie immediately following the public disclosure of Shepard's beating and subsequent milestones including the trials of the perpetrators. She has worked closely with the producers of the Laramie Project and the Matthew Shepard Foundation since.

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