Teach For America works in partnership with urban and rural communities in 52 regions across the country to expand educational opportunity for children. Founded in 1990, Teach For America recruits and develops a diverse corps of outstanding leaders to make an initial two-year commitment to teach in high-need schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to end educational inequity. Today Teach For America is a force of 64,000 alumni and corps members committed to profound systemic change.

From classrooms to districts to state houses across America, they’re reimagining education to realize the day when every child has an equal opportunity to learn, to grow, to influence and to lead. Teach For America is a proud member of the AmeriCorps national service network. For more information, visit www.teachforamerica.org and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Teach For America’s National Prism Alliances work to ensure that alumni and corps members play a significant role in advancing educational equity to LGBTQ+ low-income students. We cultivate and support regional Prism coalitions by leveraging relationships with national partner organizations and through guidance from our National Prism Advisory Board. With sustainable Prism coalitions in half of TFA’s regions, we ensure equity and explicitly affirm that LGBTQ+ students and their educators are a critical part of our child-centric ecosystem.

Since 2014, we’ve hosted conversations on the state of education in LGBTQ+ America. Corps members, alumni, activists, and community members across different regions have come together to discuss the importance of educational equity to the  LGBTQ+ community. Our annual LGBTQ+ Summits continue the conversation across the country each year.

In partnership with regional and national partner organizations, TFA LGBTQ+ Education Summits engage corps members and alumni on learning and development, as well as resources that support LGBTQ+ students and educators. Members of the summit make recommendations for teacher preparation, student support, school culture, policy, and more.

Participants — that means you! — will get guidance as an LGBTQ+ self-identified or allied teacher and advocate on how to navigate your own sexual orientation and gender identity in spaces where self-identification is both welcome, and when it isn’t.

To learn more about the National Prism Alliances and our partners, please click here and follow us on Instagram!