Sara Bendoraitis

Director, Programming, Outreach & Advocacy
Center for Diversity and Inclusion

• Additional Positions at AU

  Adjunt Faculty Member in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
  
• Sara started at American University in 2007 as the Director of the GLBTA Resource Center and became the the Director of Programming, Outreach and Advocacy for the Center for Diversity and Inclusion in August 2012. Sara received her Bachelor of Arts in Women's Studies and Political Science from the University of Rhode Island just a short distance from her hometown of Lebanon, Connecticut. For her graduate work, Sara attended the Texas A&M University where she received her Master of Education in Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education.
  
  Before coming to AU, she worked as the Coordinator of Programs at the University of Rhode Island Women’s Center, as a graduate assistant with the Gender Issues Education Services Office and the Program Coordinator for the Women’s and Gender Equity Resource Center at Texas A&M University.
  
  She currently serves as a member the NASPA Center for Scholarship, Research, and Professional Development for Women and is the Co-Chair for the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals. Sara is also an adjunct faculty member in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.

• Degrees

  Bachelors, Women’s Studies and Political Science, University of Rhode Island; Masters, Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education, Texas A&M University