Cheryl has spent her career in education and is passionate about providing educators the tools to create LGBTQ+ and gender-inclusive classrooms where all children can thrive. As the Senior Director of The Human Rights Campaign Welcoming Schools Program, she leads the most comprehensive, bias-based bullying prevention program in the nation to provide LGBTQ+ and gender inclusive professional development, lesson plans, booklists and resources specifically designed for educators. The program uses an intersectional, anti-racist lens dedicated to actionable policies and practices. Under her leadership, the educators trained have impacted over 10.5 million students.
Cheryl has also done extensive research on bullying prevention strategies and has led district and statewide initiatives to address bias based bullying and worked to establish a bullying prevention certificate program at the collegiate level.