Volunteers

New Speakers

We expect to conduct new speaker trainings once a year, generally in September. They are usually held on two consecutive Saturdays, 10 am to 5 or 6 pm at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street in San Francisco. Applicants will be interviewed by one of our coordinators before the training. For information, contact Leigh McLellan at leigh@sfspeakersbureau.org. Check our home page for details a month or two before the trainings.

Photo: Robert Bernardo and Leigh McLellan speak at Lick-Wilnerding High School

Current Speakers

We invite our current volunteer speakers to join in helping us. We have semi-regular meetings to work out the details of how to run our speakers bureau, so please get involved—we need your voice and your support!

Downloads for speaker engagements:

Gig introduction as a PDF file

Evaluations as a PDF file

Tally sheet as a PDF file
Sample filled-out tally sheet as a PDF file
Do not give evaluations or tally sheets to the teachers!
Please fill out the tally sheet. If you are unsure about how to do this, please call Leigh McLellan for directions, 415-681-9728.
Return completed evaluations and tally sheets to Leigh McLellan, Box 22095, San Francisco, CA 94122.

2011 New Speakers Training Manual (3.2 MG PDF) hot off the xerox machine!

Waiver form as a PDF file
All volunteers should fill out the first three lines and return waiver forms to Leigh McLellan, Box 22095, San Francisco, CA 94122. These are required by our sponsor, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center.

Check out the SFUSD's LGBTQ Student Support Services site for information about the status of LGBTQ youth in the schools, http://healthiersf.org/LGBTQ
Download their PowerPoint presentation, LGBTQ Student Safety Data: LGBTQ Student Safety Data_0809

Craig Siulinski, a California State University graduate student in Teacher Education, wrote this paper on bullying in the schools with a great resource list. Download PDF: Homophobic Bullying in Schools

SF LGBTQ Speakers Bureau Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/SF-LGBTQ-Speakers-Bureau/119968268049304