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Op-Ed Published in The Columbus Dispatch

Op-Ed Published in The Columbus Dispatch

October 25, 2022
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For those who know Joanne, know her research is extremely close to home. As a member of and passionate advocate for the LGBTQ community, as well as a former smoker and current tobacco-researcher, Joanne  shares her experience using menthol cigarettes…

What makes an LGBTQ+ inclusive campus?

What makes an LGBTQ+ inclusive campus?

August 30, 2022
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Excerpted from PS LGBTQ Health Equity. Today, I am celebrating because I work at an institution that is positively contributing to the health, wellbeing, and education of LGBTQ+ people.  The Ohio State University was selected as one of 40 institutions nationwide…

On pronouns. OSU Land Acknowledgment : The land that The Ohio State University occupies is the ancestral and contemporary territory of the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, Peoria, Seneca, Wyandotte, Ojibwe and Cherokee peoples. Specifically, the university resides on land ceded in the 1795 Treaty of Greeneville and the forced removal of tribes through the Indian Removal Act of 1830. As a land grant institution, we want to honor the resiliency of these tribal nations and recognize the historical contexts that has and continues to affect the Indigenous peoples of this land.