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ELEVATE PRIDE Creating More Than Safe Schools

LGBTQIA+ Awareness & Inclusion Consulting Services

ELEVATE PRIDE Creating More Than Safe Schools

LGBTQIA+ Awareness & Inclusion Consulting Services

Our Mission

Elevate Pride partners with K-12 schools to cultivate inclusive environments where LGBTQIA+ students thrive. Through professional development and ongoing training, we empower educators to become effective allies and advocates. Our programs help schools embrace the diversity of identities, foster belonging, and instill pride in each student's talents and voice.

Our interactive workshops and ongoing training are designed to:

Develop cultural competency and awareness around LGBTQ identities, experiences and terminology.
Cultivate safe, affirming spaces for LGBTQ students to embrace their authentic selves.
Empower LGBTQ youth through mentorship, leadership training and identity-affirming programs.
Provide staff, educators and peers the skills to become effective allies and advocates.
Implement anti-bullying policies, clubs, and curricula that foster understanding and respect.
Transform school culture to promote LGBTQ pride and equality.

Formats include in-person workshops, virtual sessions, keynote addresses, training series, and organizational consulting. Programs can be tailored to meet your school's specific needs.

About Elijah

As a Black, Nigerian, transgender man, Elijah knows all too well the harms of prejudice, discrimination, and bias based bullying as he has experienced it in many forms since he set foot on American soil. As a result of his experiences, Elijah became interested in understanding the mechanisms of oppression both on the systemic and individual level so he could learn how to disrupt them, especially when it came to the LGBTQIA+ community. His desire to create social change lead him to acquiring a position as a peer leader at Boston Gay Lesbian Adolescent Social Services (GLASS) at the age of 17. It was there that he was given the opportunity to utilize his voice through their community education program. While given the opportunity to apply his own knowledge, he was trained to provide LGBTQIA+ cultural competency trainings to students at Boston Public Schools to combat bias based bullying against LGBTQIA+ students. It was through his experiences providing cultural competency trainings as a peer leader that Elijah witnessed the power of education to pave the way for the humanization, love, and acceptance of LGBTQIA+ people.

He learned that education was a powerful tool that could inspire the change we needed to build a more equitable world for those of us who have been unfairly marginalized. It was this realization that inspired Elijah to pursue advocacy through education. Elijah continued on to earn his B.A in psychology to better understand the psychology of bias, prejudice, discrimination, and its adverse affects on human development. Today, Elijah continues to utilize his lived experience and knowledge to pursue his passion for advocating for LGBTQIA+ rights, particularly within the education system. In collaboration with Massachusetts' Safe Schools Program and other LGBTQIA+ organizations, Elijah strives to educate teachers and community leaders in Massachusetts by providing LGBTQIA+ cultural responsiveness training and other consulting services to shape equitable, safe, and supportive environments for LGBTQIA+ youth.

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