Bridget Hughes
Revson Fellow 2007-2008
Director of Youth Services
LGBT Community Center
Bridget Hughes is the Director of Youth Services at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. She oversees the Center’s Youth Enrichment Services (Y.E.S.) Program, an award-winning after-school program for LGBT youth that focuses on youth development through the arts, peer leadership and anti-oppression education. Hughes also oversees the Safe Schools Campaign, a multi-pronged effort to address the needs of LGBT youth in public schools.
As I look back, I am aware of just how “formative” my Revson year was for me. Much of my energy and new ideas for a church-based response to poverty, racism, unemployment, and violence came out of the debates and discussions with the Revson Fellows in my class. One of the most neglected human resources in the city is the activists. The Revson Program redresses this critical imbalance, believing that democracy and public policy will be qualitatively improved if activists return to their communities with newly acquired skills, refined insights, and an informal network of new friends.
