Mira Vance, a global gender and sexuality studies major with a concentration in Chinese at Middlebury College in Vermont, has been selected as one of six Spring 2023 Victory Congressional interns. Mira’s hometown in Northampton, Massachusetts, and her placement on Capitol Hill is with US Rep. Lori Trahan, also of Massachusetts.
Now its 12th year, this internship program of the LGBTQ Victory Institute sends emerging LGBTQ leaders to spend a semester interning on Capitol Hill. This spring’s 10-week program will include a rigorous in-person weekly leadership development series, community outreach, and mentorship component. The LGBTQ Victory Institute is proud of our continued and growing partnership with the LGBTQ Equality Caucus, its members, and other LGBTQ-friendly members of Congress.
At Middlebury, Mira has a minor in psychology and has completed a minor in global health focusing on disability studies. Her studies have created the backbone for her intersectional approach to advocacy and humanitarian activist work that emphasizes the impacts of race, gender, sexuality, and disability on experiences of oppression and violence.
She is a leader of MiddSafe, her school’s peer run advocacy hotline for survivors of sexual misconduct, dating violence, and stalking. In addition to her direct work with survivors, she also educates others on interpersonal violence. She created social media and outreach content for The Initiative Colorado, an organization dedicated to advocating for persons with disabilities who have experienced abuse and is currently working to create online zines on sexual citizenship and survivor resources for high school students. Mira is dedicated to increasing access, safety, and understanding for survivors through radical empathy and care. She centers disability justice and the knowledge of the ways ableism buttresses other systems of injustice in her advocacy and activism work.
— from a Victory Institute press release
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