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Sheltreese McCoy

Sheltreese McCoy

About Sheltreese McCoy

Sheltreese McCoy is a social justice educator and program planner at University of Wisconsin - Madison. She created and runs the first queer and trans student of color initiative called Crossroads. Sheltreese’s deep and personal understanding of minoritized identities and intersectionality has led her to become a scholar in higher education, a trainer and an advocate, as well as a strategic development consultant.

To Advisors of First Gen Students: Tell the Truth

September 14, 2015 by Sheltreese McCoy Leave a Comment

I can still vividly remember my first days on campus as a first generation, first gen, college student. How lush and expansive if felt in comparison to the slums of Cleveland. This was a whole new world literally, and I was new in it. I had made it from poverty to the rolling lawns and […]

Filed Under: Class cultures, Class in Higher Education, First Generation College Students, LGBT & Class, Poverty Tagged With: academia, classism, education, first generation college students

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