Collaborative, Scholar-Practitioner, Advocate
Debbie Bazarsky is the inaugural director of Boston University’s LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff. She is the founding director of LGBTQIA+ centers at Princeton University (2001-2015) and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Bazarsky also worked at Princeton as a senior diversity practitioner through the Office of Human Resources and a lecturer in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. After leaving Princeton, she served as visiting assistant professor in the Center for Human Sexuality Studies at Widener University and as dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and dean of Enrollment, Engagement, and Diversity at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design.
Recognized as a leader around LGBTQIA+ topics in higher education, Bazarsky provides consultation both within and outside of higher education and has led LGBTQIA+ campus assessments for numerous universities. She has served as co-chair and on the executive board of the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals. Bazarsky co-wrote their “Standards of Practice: Core Competencies for LGBTQIA+ Directors and Professionals in Higher Education” and an article about it in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Most recently, she co-wrote the Consortium’s “Promising Policies and Practices for Supporting Trans and Nonbinary People in Postsecondary Education.” Bazarsky has much love for the Princeton students, alumni, staff and faculty with whom she worked over her 16 years on campus. Her work at Princeton was a labor of love, and she is grateful to be back on campus for the second “Every Voice” conference with so many fabulous Princetonians.