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Mailing Address Michael Freeman Dr. Karen Hofmann Office of Diversity Initiatives Counseling Center - Building 27 University of Central Florida University of Central Florida 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 169 P.O. Box 163170 Orlando, Florida 32826 Orlando, Florida 32816-3170 407-823-6479 407-823-2811 Michael Freeman 
Michael Freeman is currently an Education and Training Coordinator with the Office of Diversity Initiatives at the University of Central Florida. In his role he supports the President's goal of building a more inclusive and diverse campus. He provides education and training around issues of diversity, inclusion, cultural competencies, cultural conflict resolution and social justice. He also provides strategic input to a number of campus diversity initiatives and supports campus faculty and staff through educational and consultative diversity and social justice programs. Michael along with Dr. Karen Hofmann serves as the co-coordinators of the UCF Allies Program. He also works with UCF students as the faculty advisor for EQUAL, Korean Student Association, Phi Delta Psi Fraternity, and SAFE. Michael presently serves as the chair of the UCF GLBT Alumni Chapter and also serves on the Community Advisory Board for Harbor House of Central Florida. His work at the University of Central Florida is dedicated to building a more inclusive and welcoming campus for all of its students, faculty and staff and in creating key partnerships in sustaining access to the greater community’s goods, services, assumptions, benefits, entitlements and success. Michael is a graduate of UCF and continues his education in the Masters of Social Work program. Karen Hofmann  Dr. Karen Hofmann is an Associate Director at the University of Central Florida Counseling Center. She is a licensed psychologist in the state of Florida and the Director of Training and Internships Programs at the Counseling Center. Karen started working as a therapist in 1989 at the Alcohol and Drug Outpatient Program in Austin, Texas. She earned her MS in educational Psychology in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology in 1998 from Texas A&M University and completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Texas A&M University Counseling Center. Her professional interests are relationships & family issues, women/gender issues, trauma/abuse recovery, identity development, sexual orientation, identity & expression issues, social justice, group process, training & supervision. Her passion for social justice began when she attended her first Allies Advance at Texas A&M University. Karen is Mexican-American and is fluent in Spanish.
Martha Marinara 
Dr. Martha Marinara, Associate Professor of English is the Director of the QEP.Information Fluency Initiative at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Marinara earned an MA in Creative Writing from Southern Connecticut State University and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Lehigh University. She has published a textbook--Writing Outside the Lines--and articles on Composition Pedagogy and Queer Theory in College Composition and Communication and the Journal of Basic Writing. She writes poetry and fiction and has published most recently in Massachusetts Review, Xavier Review, FEMSPEC, Estuary, Lesbian Fiction Quarterly, and Awakenings Review. In 2000, she won the Central Florida United Arts Award for Poetry. Her first novel, Street Angel, was published by FIne Tooth Press in 2006. Hank Lewis  Hank Lewis is Program Coordinator in the Office of Information Fluency. He has spent over 25 years in higher education working as Instructor, Assistant Professor, Dean, Vice President of Academic Affairs and President of private colleges in Georgia and Florida. He has spoken at numerous conferences and presented seminars on student retention, classroom creativity, and faculty development. Hank worked as an education consultant for many years in the proprietary education industry. He earned a Master's degree in Business Administration from Georgia College and State University and has done additional graduate-level work at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Hank's areas of interest and research include ethics, religion & spirituality, sexual orientation/gender & religion, social justice, and hunger. In his spare time, Hank is the webmaster for this site.
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