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PRESS STATEMENT
Saying good-Bye as
We Say Hello San Francisco, CA – 19 February 2010 – The San Francisco Pride Celebration Committee announced today two additions to their staff team. Pride has brought on Joy O’Donnell as their new Director of External Relations and Troy Coalman as the new Associate Director of Development. In her former professional roles as Director of Outreach for the National Sexuality Resource Center and Outreach Coordinator for the GLBT Historical Society, Joy has served both locally and nation-wide as a sexual rights and health educator and non-profit community outreach specialist for over a decade. An LGBT activist for over fifteen years, Joy has a special interest in advocacy work related to the needs of LGBT people with disabilities and previously served as Marriage Equality USA’s first People with Disabilities Outreach Director. Troy also joins Joy as a new member of the staff. Troy has assumed the new Associate Director of Development role on staff and brings with him over twenty years of non-profit development experience, having previously worked with WOMAN, Inc., and Metropolitan Community Church. In addition to his professional experience, Troy is passionate about social justice and has worked for twenty-five years as an LGBT and disability rights activist. Pride has been growing the staff to strengthen the organization’s development initiatives and to prepare for the fortieth anniversary San Francisco Pride Celebration and Parade on June 26-27, 2010. Pride also announced the departure of Deputy Executive Director Brendan Behan. Brendan started with San Francisco Pride in January of 2006 and has served the organization for over four years, managing the organization’s communications, outreach, educational initiatives, and special event logistics. Brendan said, “Working with Pride over these past four years has given me an immense humility for the power of this community to be a symbol of hope for LGBT people world-wide. The passion and dedication of members, volunteers, staff and contractors has given me the opportunity to experience first-hand the extent to which a local group of dedicated activists and concerned community members can make a global impact for the LGBT rights movement.” Brendan will be going on to work with InfoDome, an online database solutions company based in Oakland. Pride is inviting the community to celebrate and honor Brendan’s four years of service to SF Pride and the LGBT community at a special going away party.
Friday, February 26, 2010 “Brendan has provided many years of dedicated service to Pride for which we are both grateful and ready to celebrate,” stated Executive Director Amy André. “We know the community is anxious to thank Brendan for his dedication, so we hope to see everyone at Lime as we commemorate his contributions to the ongoing struggle for LGBT rights and to congratulate him on his future endeavors.” San Francisco Pride has expanded its staffing model to include seven year-round staff members in addition to a robust team of contractors, members, and volunteers who help plan for and put on the annual Celebration and Parade as well as Pride’s year-round educational initiatives and programming. For more information about the San Francisco Pride team, the two-day Celebration and Parade, and Pride’s educational programming, visit SFPride.org. ####### About San
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