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About BTC
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Our Mission
Our Programs
Our Programs
Be the Change LGBTQIA Community LLC (BTC) exists to empower, advocate for, and uplift LGBTQIA+ individuals through community+ centered programs, education, leadership, development, advocacy, and support services. We are committed to fostering safe spaces, amplifying unheard voices, promoting social justice, and building pathways toward he
Be the Change LGBTQIA Community LLC (BTC) exists to empower, advocate for, and uplift LGBTQIA+ individuals through community+ centered programs, education, leadership, development, advocacy, and support services. We are committed to fostering safe spaces, amplifying unheard voices, promoting social justice, and building pathways toward healing, opportunity, and lasting change inside institutions and throughout the broader community.
Our Programs
Our Programs
Our Programs
AT BTC we hold a variety of programs, support groups, and events. Some of these include:
- Pride Celebration
- LGBTQ Update & Opinion Talk
- L.E.A.P. (LGBTQIA Education Advancement Program
- Leader's Community Outreach Day
- Lifer's Program
- Trans Sisters Group
- Learn to Crochet
- Music Class
- Overcoming the Habit Class
- Overcoming Moments of Anger
- Preparing for Re
AT BTC we hold a variety of programs, support groups, and events. Some of these include:
- Pride Celebration
- LGBTQ Update & Opinion Talk
- L.E.A.P. (LGBTQIA Education Advancement Program
- Leader's Community Outreach Day
- Lifer's Program
- Trans Sisters Group
- Learn to Crochet
- Music Class
- Overcoming the Habit Class
- Overcoming Moments of Anger
- Preparing for Release
- Surviving Incarceration Class
- Counseling Sessions
- Communication Skills
- Moments of Anxiety
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Our TEAM
Our Partners
Our Partners
Founder/CEO: Varia Merritt
Registered Agent: Armilla Bishop
Administrative Assistant: Keith Newport
Executive Oversight Director: Russell McCollum
Outreach Director: Austin Bishop
Operations Director: Atticus Spurlock
Advocacy, Financial, & Development Director: Kevin Gentry
Our Partners
Our Partners
Our Partners
Reach out to us to be a community partner!
Unitarian Universalists
See more info below!
Abolition Works TN
A grassroots initiative dedicated to ending carceral enslavement by advocating for no exceptions to the abolition of slavery.
Southerners on New Ground Nashville
Nashville chapter of Southern regional LGBTQ
Reach out to us to be a community partner!
Unitarian Universalists
See more info below!
Abolition Works TN
A grassroots initiative dedicated to ending carceral enslavement by advocating for no exceptions to the abolition of slavery.
Southerners on New Ground Nashville
Nashville chapter of Southern regional LGBTQ+ membership based organization fighting for liberation of all and a world free of cages.