Shel Pomerantz
As Communications Manager, Shel leverages Outright's communications platforms to drive a powerful narrative of LGBTQ+ youth pride, joy, power, and belonging across Vermont and beyond. Through managing the organization’s online and offline visibility, amplifying youth voices and stories, and working behind the scenes to bring clarity to all Outright's messaging, Shel ensures that all the youth and staff of Outright can channel their creativity to speak their truth with authenticity, boldness, and clarity.
A lover of language and a nerd for words, Shel finds great joy in adding puns and pizzazz to Outright’s public communications, and telling the story of Outright in all its sparkly glory!
Growing up as a queer kid in Burlington, Shel loved the weekly ritual of pizza and catching up with friends at Friday Night Group. While earning a BA in Sociology at PSU in Oregon, Shel directed an educational storytelling program. Sociology helped them understand how environments shape individuals; coordinating panels of student storytellers proved to them that communication and storytelling have the power to transform entire communities. It was their peers' stories of growing up queer all over the world that inspired Shel’s return to Outright, the place where they first learned to be a hopeful, self-assured queer person.
When they’re not scrabbling through the back end of our website or heart-reacting to your comments on Outright's social media, Shel can be found making music, art, and pickles with their family and spoiled pets.
