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University Housing staff give best presentation at annual conference

Several University Housing staff members attended the South Carolina Housing Officers Association conference earlier this semester, including:

  • Ellie Gathings, community coordinator
  • David Speiser, assistant director for recruitment and selection
  • Jenna Jeslis, resident success specialist for student employment
  • Kat Mortensen, associate director of resident success
  • Rachael Baker, assistant director for resident success

All five attendees were selected to present at the conference, and Mortensen and Baker won the award for the best presentation. They will present at the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers conference in late February 2019.

"The focus of our program was less on the overt sexism that we can all see but more on covert sexism that we sometimes do not realize is going on around us or that we sometimes do to ourselves," Mortensen shared.

They plan to make some tweaks to the presentation in preparation for the February conference, including providing a handout and incorporating more discussion.

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