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OUR PRIDE Education Advisory Team members represent a strong cross-generational team of education, industry, and social action thought leaders and allies who are committed to bringing LGBTQ+ issues to life and enabling youth to explore the lives and events which have shaped our world and are impacting our collective future.
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Dan Bennett

Dan Bennett is Founder and Festival Director for a non-profit international youth film festival series and the largest film festival and hands-on creative workshop network in the world, specializing in screening of narrative films, animation and documentaries, and educational workshops, for toddlers through teens and their families. Festivals include the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Diego International Children’s Film Festival at Comic-Con International and other prestigious venues, the San Francisco Bay Area International Children’s Film Festival at the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose; and the New Orleans International Children's Film Festival at the New Orleans Museum of Contemporary Art. 
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Lillian Faderman

​Lillian Faderman is an internationally known scholar of lesbian and LGBT history and literature, as well as ethnic history and literature. Faderman's work has been translated into numerous languages, including German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Turkish, Czech, and Slovenian. Among her many honors are six Lambda Literary Awards, two American Library Association Awards, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and several lifetime achievement awards for scholarship, including Yale University's James Brudner Award, the Monette/Horwitz Award, the Publishing Triangle Award, the Golden Crown Literary Society Trailblazer Award, the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives Culture Hero Award, and the American Association of University Women's Distinguished Senior Scholar Award. 
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Odessa Shlain Goldberg

Odessa Shlain Goldberg is a high school filmmaker who took the top honor in the 2019 OUR PRIDE Video Fest competition for her moving short film that interweaves images of mass shootings with Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and Martin Niemöller poem “First They Came.” Odessa was awarded the Troy Perry Award for her film, which features Rufus Wainwright’s rendition of the classic Cohen song and chronicles some of the worst mass shootings in recent history.  The award, which recognizes young people who are making an impact through social activism, was created in honor of Rev. Dr. Troy Perry, a Los Angeles-based renown international human rights activist and pioneer in social equality, legal protection and spiritual justice for LGBTQ+ people.   As a filmmaker, Odessa wants to make films that, first make people feel, and then compel people to act. She hopes her film will inspire other young people to produce their own films for the  OUR PRIDE Education Video competition.
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John Heilman

John Heilman is a law school professor currently teaching at both the University of Southern California Law School and Southwestern Law School.  He currently serves on the West Hollywood City Council and was first elected to the City Council shortly after the City's founding in November 1984, then chosen as the City’s second Mayor in 1985, and also served as Mayor in 1990, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2006, 2010, and 2017.  John has been an active member and on the board of the National League of Cities and served on the board of the California League of Cities. He is a past board member of the ACLU of Southern California and the Local Government Commission.  And he is also the past president of the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Local Officials Group and a founding member and past co-chair of the International Network of Lesbian and Gay Officials.  John is the immediate past president and a board member of the Jacaranda School in Africa, which provides education for over 400 children who have been orphaned by AIDS.  He also serves on the board of the LGBTQ human rights organization OutRight Action International (formerly the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC).
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Crystal Page

​Crystal Page is a digital content producer and communications strategist. Over the last decade, she has created communications strategies and produced advocacy content for clients and employers. At present, Crystal is the Director of Communications for the California State Council of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which represents over 700,000 union members in California. Her mission is to humanize labor issues and policy through video documentaries, animation, and testimony. In recent years, her work has supported the environmental goals of “Don’t Waste Long Beach” coalition, restore critical hours to California’s In-Home Supportive Services program, and education union members on legislative and election issues. Her kid’s film, “My Homework Ate My Dog” toured the Globe with the Kid’s First Film Festival. Crystal is a former video instructor in the Live Arts Group youth program. And founder of the Good Fruit Productions, Christian Film Festival. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Film Production program.