Staff

Jorge Castillo comes to the LGBT Resource Center from West Virginia University (WVU), where he served as the inaugural assistant director for the LGBTQ+ Center and oversaw the LGBTQ studies minor in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Prior to his roles at WVU, Castillo has served as an instructor at the University of Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Fairfield University, and St. Lawrence University, where he taught courses in Latinx studies, gender, sexuality, and queer studies, Latin American literature and film, and Spanish language. Castillo is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Connecticut focusing on queer sexualities and globalization in Caribbean literature and film, where he also earned a master’s in Spanish literature and language. He received his B.A. from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas with a concentration in Hispanic Culture and Literature and Mexican American Studies.

Sarah is the Graduate Assistant for the LGBT Resource Center. She is currently pursuing her master's in Higher Education from Syracuse University. Before coming to Syracuse, Sarah completed her undergraduate coursework at Binghamton University, where she majored in Human Development with a concentration in Women, Gender and Sexuality studies. Sarah's extracurricular activities during her undergraduate career were helping to run an intersectional feminist organization on campus, as well as partaking in social activism both on campus and in the greater Binghamton area. During her time here at Syracuse, Sarah hopes to continue her activist work, as well as maintain her focus on centering marginalized folks and keeping an intersectional framework in the programming she does. In her free time (ha!) , Sarah enjoys hiking and being outside, painting, learning random useless trivia, and drinking a lot of tea. She invites you to come hang out and drink tea with her, once it's safe enough to do so!