Who I Am

 

Helen Harrell is a long time activist for social justice. She is a former clinical therapist, pre-school teacher, construction worker, union organizer, and co-founder of Bloomington IN chapter of Pride at Work. She continues as a workshop presenter, free lance writer and lecturer and a columnist for The Word and the Bloomington Alternative. She has a master’s degree in clinical psychology and was working toward a PhD when she left to live the communal life for a few years. Upon returning to ‘civilization’ she became an employee of Indiana University, first in the political science and then the speech communication departments and is currently affiliated with the African Studies Program. She is the advisor for the undergraduate LGBT student group OUT, and is the co-advisor for both the undergraduate and graduate Native American student groups. She has just completed serving a term as treasurer of the Bloomington Black Business and Professional Association. She is also last, but not least a mother and grandmother who considers herself to be most fortunate to have the opportunity to serve as Host on bloomingOUT weekly radio show broadcast from the studios of WFHB Community Radio 91.3 FM and in assisting WFHB and the bloomingOUT staff with the challenge of educating and illuminating the public in regard to LGBT issues. Her goal is and has always been to eliminate discrimination in any form and to help create a truly just society and world.