Artist and fifth-year women’s studies student Belen Blizzard is Concordia’s first-ever 2SLGBTQIA+ student coordinator. Funded by the equity office, and situated within the Simone de Beauvoir Institute (SdBI), this new role will include mobilizing undergraduate students to organize a conference slated for May 2025. Blizzard will further develop and amplify resources available to 2SLGBTQIA+ students at Concordia, but also draw them into the SdBI’s Learning Centre and Lending Library. A member of Concordia’s STRIVE subcommittee on transphobia and former SdBI student association executive, Blizzard already has extensive experience advocating for trans and non-binary young people — racialized young people in particular.