On February 24, 2021 from 12:00pm to 1:30pm, there will be a panel entitled “COVID-19 and Implications for the LGBTQ+ Community” which will be sponsored by the Michigan Capital Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration. This will be an online event via Cisco Webex: Each speaker will have 15 minutes with a 5 minute Q&A at the end of each presentation. There will be a 15 minute open discussion at the end. The Michigan chapter website is at www.aspamicap.org. The video of the panel will be available on the website after the event for those that cannot attend. Speakers will include: (1) Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, who works with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services as a Senior Public Health Physician. She is also a consultant with the World Health Organization. She is one of the top infectious disease experts on COVID-19 in the State of Michigan, Dr. Bagdasarian will provide an overview of COVID-19 response in the State of Michigan and how that is impacting marginalized groups, (2) Paula Overby will be speaking on the impacts of the pandemic upon the Transgender community, (3) Christopher Surfus will speak on the ways that the political environment at the national level has impacted COVID-19 response, both on LGBTQ+ and on COVID-19 in general. He will touch on his dissertation which focuses on the local level LGBTQ+ policy issues and how those local issues are magnified by COVID-19, (4) Wallace Swan will focus on Wallace Swan, editor, The Routledge Handbook of LGBTQIA Administration and Policy (2019) and how some of the policy areas in the book are magnified by COVID-19.
Lyle Rossman Memorial Senior Scholarship Fund
Lyle Rossman Memorial Senior Scholarship Fund. A virtual event plus a letter to contributors yielded $2380, which will fund the 2020 Lyle Rossman Memorial Senior Scholarship, plus a satisfactory balance that will help with the 2021 scholarship.