Safe Zone seeks to promote National Institutes of Health (NIH) community awareness and education about the needs and concerns of people who identify as sexual and gender minorities, represented by the acronym SGM.

Join the Team

I am interested in becoming a Safe Zone team member. How do I participate?

Getting involved is simple. Attend a Safe Zone training sponsored by the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and the SGM Special Emphasis Portfolio to become a member of the Safe Zone team. The training furthers your understanding and challenges your perceptions of sex, sexuality, gender, and human difference in a safe atmosphere.

Check regularly for upcoming training.

WHO’S ON THE TEAM?

The training offers the NIH community an opportunity to ask questions and learn more about sexual orientation and gender identity from certified Safe Zone Trainers.

These are our current Safe Zone Trainers:

Louis V. Choporis, M.A.Ed.

Chief
Office of Administrative Management
Ethics and Management Analysis Branch
Planning and Organizational Development Section
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

Edward Dorsey

Training Manager
Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Bali White

Principal Strategist
Portfolio for Sexual and Gender Minorities
Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

After taking the NIH-sponsored Safe Zone training yourself, another active way to support our colleagues is by becoming a Safe Zone trainer. If you are interested in becoming a trainer to welcome and celebrate SGM employees and colleagues; encourage people to be themselves; ask questions; and speak openly, please contact Bali White at bali.white@nih.gov.