Rowen Thomas, MA 

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About me

Rowen has been an educational consultant, public speaker, educator, worker-cooperative co-owner, and coach with over a decade of facilitation experience. Their work spans disciplines and focuses on the experiences of individuals with historically marginalized or minoritized identities, particularly queer, transgender, and gender non-conforming people of color. They use humor, empathy, and honesty to empower all in a shared pursuit of justice, liberation, community, and dismantling systemic oppression.

Rowen is the new Director for the Stryker Institute for Leadership Development (SI) and most recently served as the inaugural Associate Director of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC). At UNC, they have been a Graduate Assistant for the GSRC and a Graduate Assistant for the UNITE program. They are currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Higher Education and Student Affairs Leadership and Applied Statistics and Research Methods programs at UNC.

They are an arts-infused qualitative methodologist and community-driven researcher-practitioner whose background in philosophy informs their work on the ethics of research and applied research methods. Rowen is an experienced student affairs professional with a strong background in leadership and leadership development, project management, community-building, and curriculum development.

Rowen is an artist, slam poet, and non-monogamous relationship anarchist whose personal and professional work focuses on healing and reintegration of whole personhood through liberatory justice.