Vincent “Vinnie” Pompei is director of the Youth Well-Being Project of the Human Rights Campaign, a national civil rights organization, and the chair of Time to Thrive, an annual national conference about LGBT student inclusion. He spent more than 10 years as a middle school teacher and high school counselor in the Paramount and Val Verde unified school districts in Southern California. Pompei is also a past president of the California Association of School Counselors.
On Oct. 5 at the EdSource Symposium in Oakland, Pompei will speak at the plenary session “Vulnerable Children: Is California on the Right Track?” and will lead a break-out session on “creating inclusive and supportive school environments.”
[For more on this story by Jane Meredith Adams, go to https://edsource.org/2017/vinn...ork-with-that/586200]
Photo: After the 2016 presidential election, Clementine Gunter, left, and Max Burk at Berkeley High said they were concerned about gender discrimination under the Trump administration.
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