SLIDE BY SLIDE Description of online portfolio: http://www.slideteria.com/slidecasts/show/348 #1-#3 Introductory photo and resume #4 The Walt Disney World College Program which I participated in my freshman year of college. I loved it and it changed my life. As a Jungle Cruise skipper, I really learned to come out of my shell and basically found myself through the every day interactions with people from all walks of life. It really helped ignite the passion that was burning within me. #5 The Kaleidoscope Project of which I was in charge of my sophomore year of school. It helped me cultivate my passions into action, where I could adress all of the things that really impacted me in such significant ways. The ones that I put were the most impactful events that created. #6-#8You think you can't but you really can was an event to challenge the student bodies apathy, to help inspire people to test their limits of who they were. We had 5 different stations where each person was asked to test various aspects of themselves including body limits, mind limits, food limits, social limits and fear limits. and the mind station they were asked to do sit ups, mind to do difficult word problems, social limits asked them to get up in the middle of a crowd and do somethingk food limits asked them to eat food from around the world like cow stomach, and fear limits we got a snake and a spider from petco and asked students to hold one. Most amazing thing ever! #9-#10 This was a powerful day where in order to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown V the Board of Education ruling to desegregate schools, we decided to segregate the student union by hair color. It was challenging, yet very provacative and we made people think. #11-#12 Much like the "You think you can't but you really can" event, this was a holistic living event where we tried to help educate the GU community on various techniques to reduce stress during midterms week. We had pet therapy, aroma therapy, massage therapy, accupuncture, the works. It was really unique. #13-#18- I am very proud of this event, because single handedly I brought in 12 of these massive World AID's Day Memorial quilts and hung them in the spokane room of the cog for a week to commemorate world AIDs day. It was very powerful for me and helped me come face to face with the issues faced by this minority population. #18-#19-This was a speaker series that I put together for the second semester of my sophomore year. We really addresses so many issues and created dialogue surrounding topics that many didn't always talk about, from racial profiling, to objectification of women to suicide, etc, etc. The greatest of these events was when Judy Shepard Came to town. I raised $11,000 to bring her there and we ended up filling up the old Kennel. It was an amazing event, and really impacted campus, leaving lasting effects. #20- My Junior year of college, I was sent in the fall to be trained for a week in DC by the National Coalition Building Institute where I learned all about conflict resolution and bringing people together from all different types of backgrounds. It would later serve as the basis for my job that year as the Ally Project Cooridantor. #21- My Junior year I was also apart of the first ever St Judes Up Till Dawn team which raises money for St Judes Hospital in Memphis, TN. You would think that given our rookie status we would do okay, but we ended up raising the most in the entire country for our school's size, $48,000 and it was amazing. I was the programming chair and helped to put on a lot of the smaller events that also led up to the final major event. #22- I spent a Summer Abroad studying in Florence Italy while traveling around the world. As far as commitment to social justice goes, I was one of the very few individuals from my group who strayed off the beaten path. I met locals and because of that was able to see a whole side to Florence that only the locals do. It was one amazing summer. I am so fortunate. #23- I was elected GSBA Senior Senator two years in a row and was a major influencing party in that years revival of a previous years apathy and neglect. The only thing that the year before me passed was a letter to the Pope wishing him a happy birthday. Whereas my year, we passed sweeping legislation that impacted all types of students. I initiated legislation that created a diversity chair onthe cabinet of the GSBA executive branch, acknowleged the work of minority students on campus and previous unknown organizations, I worked to bring in corporate sponsorship from MTVU providing GU students with access to hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship opportunities, I developed course credit for participation in the Walt Disney World College Program, and I helped to pass legislation that tackled taboo subjects like sexuality and was supported fully by a senate, asking our administration to provide profolactives as well as educational programming to help bring awareness to sexually active student body. #24 I was the Pandini's Programming Coordinator for the new restraunt. I was asked by the administration to come in and make the place more lively for students to come and relax. I not only put on tons of programnig like speed dating, murder mystery nights, etc, etc, but implemented several long term initiatives that are still there today like the purchase of video game and a stage for performances. #25 After participating first as a SEARCHER, I was so moved by the program that the next round I became a leader and organizer of a spirtual retreat on our campus called SEARCH sponsored by our University Ministires office. As a Front crew leader, I was a part of a team of individuals leading students on spiritual journeys. What was also significant about that events, was that I was one of the very few people in history who was an out gay man and shared at the retreat about my own experiences of oppression and love. #26 I served as a regional coordinator for a national campaign, called Right To Serve, Sponsored by Soul Force, which is a non-profit which follows the life and times of Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr in Non-violent demonstration. I organized about 15 people to demonstrate a local recruitment office for the Army and applied to serve in the military, while refusing to cooperate with the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy. I was denied, and thus demonstrated against such hypucrisy by sitting in with three other students. #27- #28 I did an internship with the National Organization, the Matthew Shepard Foundation where I helped to work on creating a new website geared towards disenfranchised youth to help provide them with resources and support. I gave a lot of imput and even created a informational radio show where I provided information to youth on LGBT issues, hosted on the site. #29 I served for two years on the Matthew Shepard Foundation Youth Advisory Council, where I advised the Foundation in their interactions with young people. we also attended and made appearances at many MSF events including the Bear to Make a difference awards in Denver CO, the Laramie Project award ceremony in NYC and the HONORS event in LA. #30 I did an internship over the summer between by senior year and super senior year with the Odyssey Youth Center where I helped to create a state wide program that addressed bullying and harassment in schools. We organized a signature campaign/oath type deal as well as a state wide training to professionals working with young people on LGBT young people. #31 Did a program called Semester At Sea where we literally took a semester traveling around the world to over 12 countries. It is one thing to say that yes I traveled around the world, but another to say I went to carnivale in Brazil, a Safari in Africa, the Taj Mahal in India, on a adventure to observe orangutangs in Borneo, to Angor Vat in Cambodia, rode a boat on the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, Saw the light show in Hong Kong, Climbed the Great Wall in Beijing, and stood where the Atom Bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan. It was amazing. I could even say I experienced the poverty of the Flavellas in Salvador Brazil, the townships in Capetown South Africa, worshiped the Sun God with untouchables on the Ganges River in Varnassi, climbed throught Cuchi Cuchi Tunnels uesed to kill American Soldiers in Vietnam, saw Peenham Pen, where the Cambodian holocaust happened, talked with Chinnese students about communism and their perceptions of the west in Beijing, and saw a Geisha first hand in Kyoto, Japan. And above all, I traveled alongside 700 students, 150 faculty and staff, including my mother, 300 crew members, and the nobel peace prize winning Archbishop of South Africa, Desmont Tutu. What an amazing journey!! #32 As a graduation gift to myself, I decided to volunteer through my friends international non-profit providing basic medical services to a small town in The Gambia, West Africa. While I originally signed up to be the photographer, I ended up assisting in all types of procedures from basic dental cleanings to vaccinations of small children, to HIV testing, to Malaria education and training to the locals. We lived in a wing of the hospital and lived on a loaf of bread a day. It was just three weeks or so of my life, but man, will it live with my for a lifetime. #33-#47 Most of all I served on the executive board of our gay straight alliance at GU, HERO for four years, three of which I was president. So many things happened within that organization under my leadership that I designated several pages to the accomplishments that I had to assisting this controversial community on our campus of which I was apart. #34 Okay by Us Campaign I created to bring visibility on campus to LGBT people. #35 Our Brochure we put out at club fairs and in our resource center. #37 What if campaign for national Coming Out Day BBQ. Simply by changing the time of day, we increased the annual participation in the event from about 50- 500 people who turned out for our bbq. #38-#40 National Day of Silence Campaign....we increased annual particiaption in the event from about 50 people per year to over 250 while I was president. #41-#43Mr Rogers, Won't You Be My Neighbor National Coming Out Day BBQ. we had the whole school wondering about him and the mailman....gotta love it. #44 The first ever LGBT dance at Gonzaga called the metrosexual dance. It was funny, because Fr. Spitzer got freaked out about it because the word sexual was in it, and someone had to point out to him that the real "sexual" dance was actually called "The Grind" put on by a service organization called the Knights and Setons. #45 Out of Shadows annual publication was a first of its kind, which put out to the GU community the every day life of the LGBT student. Highlights through poems, short stories and art the full range of emotion faced at Gonzaga. #46 Was subject of a MTVu alternative spring break documentary covering our travels to the historic Same Sex Marriage hearing at the state supreme court in Olympia WA. We went over there, camped out, met with state legislators, and served as peace keepers between the hostile crowds. There were upwards of 5,000 mayday for marriage people protesting against the proposition to legalize gay marriage in the state versus the 200 of us. We just happened to make colorful t-shirts that day, and were asked to form a wall to protect the plaintiffs from the anti gay slurs being thrown at them. #47 The chant heard roung the country. The kennal club had ended up chanting some anti gay things along with a loud "Brokeback mountain" which caused some major upsets to our national image. As the president of the Gay straight alliance, I was asked to give a statement on the issue by the AP and consequently was quoted in over 25 newspapers and articles all over the country. From there I was asked to come onto the Tucker Carlson show in MSNBC to do an interview with the man him self. My first live interview on National Television. Ahhh!! #48-#57 Awards and Accolades #49 Was featured as a Future Gay Hero in the National LGBT magazine, The Advocate. #50 Featured as one of 20 individuals "Doing Kickass work in the Inland Northwest" in the Inlander newspaper #51 Recieved the first ever national honor from the Matthew Shepard Foundation called the Making A Difference Award. It was called the bell of peace, in commemoration of Matt, and people like John Lewis, Cindi Lauper, Senator Kennedy, Senator Tammy Baldwin, etc, etc, have since recieved the same award. It's quite an honor. #52 Was featured in a local magazine that highlighted my volunteer experience in The Gambia Africa Last summer as well as a feature interview with me about me and my lifes work. #53 Recieved the Ellison Executive Inclusive community Building Advocate Award from Gonzaga University. #54 Was the first student to ever recieve the Bill Wasmuth Giraffe Award which is an award for taking on issues of noble cause, and being confident in myself and serving others. #55 Recieved the Montana Wheat Farms weekly "Breadwinner" award for my work within the Spokane community. They sent me a loaf of bread in the mail along with a letter, it was so awesome!! #56 Recieved the "Keeping the Spirit of Walt Disney Alive" award for maintaining the magic while I worked at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, FL. #57 Several of the comment cards I recieved for the work I did at GU from Managers, guests and fellow castmembers.

Ryan, Dude,you have been busy. I like your middle name. I don't know what all this means except you must have a lot of time on your hands. When are you coming to visit us in Phoenix? Your favorite Uncle.

You know Ryan its truley a great portflio. More then what most could ask for or be able to accomplish at your (our) age...lol I just wanted to tell you. That not only knowing you makes me feel like a better person. But that knowing you makes me want to be a better person. You really are a treasure.

Great presentation, Ryan! I really enjoyed the opportunity to view your work and accomplishments. I had no idea that you had received so many awards and accolades, all of them so well-deserved. Nice job! Doreen Kelsey