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Liz Hamor

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.

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Dee Martinez, left, and Judi Jones are facing a health challenge together. Dee needs a kidney and pancreas transplant, which will stretch their family thin. (Dee Martinez)

For Kansas couple facing kidney and pancreas transplants, excitement mixes with trepidation
By: - 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 […]

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What does an LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinance mean for Wichita? Your questions answered.
By: - 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 […]

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Liz Hamor with a photo of her grandparents. Her grandfather ran a grain elevator and served on a school board in rural northwest Kansas. Her grandmother volunteered at church and the nursing home. (Submitted)

My grandparents taught me that some Kansas values are nonpartisan
By: - 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 […]

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