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Liz Hamor
Liz Hamor is a champion for diversity, equity and inclusion and participates in active leadership within her community. Hamor holds a master's degree in ESOL and bilingual education from Kansas State University and taught in Emporia, Kansas, and San Antonio, Texas. In 2014, she co-founded GLSEN Kansas and spent years working toward a safer, more inclusive Kansas for LGBTQ youth. In May 2021, she left GLSEN Kansas to focus on empowering Kansans through her leadership consulting business, Center of Daring.
For Kansas couple facing kidney and pancreas transplants, excitement mixes with trepidation
By: Liz Hamor - July 5, 2022
The Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the conversation about how public policies affect the day-to-day lives of people throughout our state. Liz Hamor runs a leadership consulting business, Center of Daring. When Dee Martinez and Judi Jones pledged their wedding vows to each other in September, they […]
What does an LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinance mean for Wichita? Your questions answered.
By: Liz Hamor - September 23, 2021
The Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the conversation about how public policies affect the day-to-day lives of people throughout our state. Liz Hamor runs a leadership consulting business, Center of Daring. Most Kansans agree that discrimination is wrong and goes against their values. However, a proposed LGBTQ-inclusive […]
My grandparents taught me that some Kansas values are nonpartisan
By: Liz Hamor - August 1, 2020
The Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the conversation about how public policies affect the day-to-day lives of people throughout our state. Liz Hamor is a third generation Kansan. “How have masks become a political issue?” When a friend exasperatedly asked this question rhetorically, I’d already been turning […]