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            How this High School Dean Supports her Queer Students
                
                    
                        
                            Season 3
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 2
                        
                    
                
            
            
            DaShawn is a Dean at a local Bronx high school. She shares her experience of homophobia within her family and how this past fuels her desire to create safe, celebratory spaces at the high school at which she works. She is the advisor to a young, but flourishing GSA, the success of which she attributes to her empowered students
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