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29 <br /> Page 1 of 2 Timothy McNair <br /> Volunteer Application <br /> Orange County Advisory Boards and Commissions <br /> Name: Timothy McNair <br /> Name Called: <br /> Home Address: 108 Pine Street <br /> Carrboro NC 27510 <br /> Phone (Day): 919-928-6336 <br /> Phone (Evening): 919-928-6336 <br /> Phone (Cell): 919-928-6336 <br /> Email: timothybasso @gmail.com <br /> Place of Employment: Unknown <br /> Job Title: Service Industry <br /> Year of OC Residence: 2009 <br /> Township of Residence: Chapel Hill <br /> Zone of Residence: <br /> Sex: Male <br /> Ethnic Background: African American <br /> Community Activities/Organizational Memberships: <br /> Published writer for News and Observer since the age of 21 (Articles on race, economics, <br /> and intersectional sexuality -black Igbt:: white Igbt etc) <br /> Past Service on Orange County Advisory Boards: <br /> None <br /> Boards/Commissions applied for: <br /> Human Relations Commission <br /> Background, education and experience relevant to this board: <br /> Experience to Aid You in Working on Advisory BoardAppointment to Provost s council on <br /> Diversity and Inclusion at Northwestern University Black Graduate Student Association at <br /> Northwestern University Published writer on race and mental health (also intersectionality of <br /> gender and sexuality)The Cambridge Tab Finalist for Rita Wilson s Voices of Strength <br /> Featured in CBS News Chicago, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago Reader, Tribune, WGN News <br /> for stances on institutional racism and violence in university environments Conor Fridersdorf, <br /> Atlantic journalist who wrote hideous comments on Black Mizzou and Yale students, wrote on <br /> me years before our current protests on college campuses. I cope with PTSD, secondary to <br /> childhood-youth trauma and violence demonstrated towards me during my studies in <br /> undergraduate and graduate school. I am a mental health advocate, in every sense I was born in <br /> Orange County I am gay Most of all, I am Black which makes me more than mighty. <br /> Reasons You Wish to be Appointed-here needs to be more discourse surrounding <br /> homelessness, mental health, race, and spaces for Black LGBTQ in this towns€;currently, there <br /> are zero. There are no spaces here that are sufficiently safe for Black bodies and I want to start <br /> that important dialogue. <br /> Reasons for wanting to serve on this board: <br /> N/A <br /> Conflict of Interest: <br />