Victory seeks transgender and LGBT people of color for groundbreaking program

The Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute last week announced a first-of-its-kind fellowship opportunity designed to help openly transgender people and openly LGBT people of color gain public service and community leadership experience. The Victory Empowerment Fellowship program, created in partnership with the Arcus Foundation, will give 10 fellows full scholarships to one of the organization's Candidate and Campaign Trainings and the annual International LGBT Leadership Conference. 

"LGBT people of color and transgender people often face unique barriers to serving as public officials, which is why they are still vastly underrepresented in government," said Torey Carter, Victory's interim executive director. "This fellowship is the beginning of a focused effort to change that."