Dwayne Steward is an award-winning journalist, LGBTQ rights activist and anti-bullying advocate. He is currently The Fenway Institute Community Engagement Coordinator at Fenway Health in Boston, MA., the country’s leading health care and research facility dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Prior to Fenway Health he was the inaugural LGBTQ Health Advocate for the City of Columbus Public Health Department, where he created and implemented the city’s groundbreaking LGBTQ Health Initiative. Dwayne is also the founder and director of the Make It Better Foundation, a bullying prevention organization focused on building communities of inclusion in small towns nationwide. In 2010, he was published in the New York Times Bestseller “It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying and Creating a Life Worth Living” edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller and contributed to the anthology "Students, Teachers & Leaders Addressing Bullying in Schools," a collegiate textbook published in partnership with Kent State University and New Mexico State University in 2015. Dwayne is a former columnist at Outlook Ohio (the state's leading LGBTQ news magazine), where he founded “The Other Side,” a monthly column that focuses on the intersections of race and sexuality and served as the Senior Writer for several years, developing in-depth, statewide front page news features on this same topic. He is also the former founding co-host of “Queer Minded,” a top-rated LGBT news/entertainment talk show on TalktainmentRadio.com. Dwayne previously served on the Board of Directors with Kaleidoscope Youth Center, a safe drop-in center for LGBTQ youth in Central Ohio, and is a founder and former Executive Committee Chair of Columbus Urban Pride, an organization with the mission of creating safe spaces that celebrate racial diversity within LGBTQ communities. Visit www.dwaynesteward.com for more information.