Staff & Board
Our staff, youth organizers, and Board of Directors are a passionate, diverse group whose goal is to create lasting, meaningful change within the LGBTQ+ youth community, using their unique backgrounds and skill sets uniting to bring about advocacy, education, resource building & more.
Our Staff
Bird’s Eye View
Team Bird’s Eye View is Outright Vermont’s high-level organizational leadership. This team is responsible for ensuring effective and generative collaboration across the organization, including within and among all other teams, and holds the organization accountable to our mission, vision, and values at every level.
Transforming
Team Transforming works to shape environments where youth don’t have to fear harm, where their voices and expertise are recognized and celebrated and they are able to grow and learn. Their strategy is twofold: they support youth power through offering leadership opportunities, and they equip adults to engage wholeheartedly in collaboration with the young people in their lives.
Self & Families
Team Self & Families ensures that Vermont’s LGBTQ+ youth and their families have access to supportive peers. Through social and support groups and gatherings, including the magical Camp Outright, they make space for LGBTQ+ youth and their families to gather without the threat of harm, experience community and queer joy, and flourish as their best selves through finding their people.
Development
Our Development Team is dedicated to building meaningful partnerships that power our mission. From securing vital resources to fostering connections with donors, sponsors, volunteers, and community supporters, the team ensures our work remains sustainable and impactful.
Communications
The communications team is about amplifying LGBTQ+ youth voices and the organization’s mission by crafting impactful messaging, building connections with audiences, and inspiring action to drive toward our vision.
Operations
The operations team manages Outright's operational and financial systems as well as administrative processes.
YOUTH ORGANIZERS
In this year-long program, Youth Organizers collaborate with each other, Outright staff, allied youth in their region, and the statewide GSA Network to create positive change in their schools and communities across Vermont. There are 12 Youth Organizers in the 2024-2025 cohort. Meet some of them below!
Our Board
