Gene Hightower, Harvard class of 1974, was the founder of the Harvard Gay Student Association. He went on to become president of the UC Berkeley Gay Student Union as a graduate student there. He worked in the Gay Counseling Program as a therapist while at Berkeley. After completing his masters in community mental health at Berkeley, he went on for doctoral study at the Wright Institute where he did a field placement at the Pacific Center for Sexual Minorities, a mental health program serving the LGBTQ community. Dr Hightower did his psychology internship at the University of California San Francisco, where he was placed in part at Operation Concern a clinic serving the San Francisco LGBTQ community. Later he founded Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits ( BAAITS) an American Indian LGBTQ organization. He also taught a class on Two Spirit people in the Native American Studies Program at UC Berkeley. He has given numerous public presentations on Two Spirits .This year he was given a life time achievement award from the San Francisco City and County Board of Supervisors for service to the LGBTQ and American Indian communities. He is a licensed psychologist and member of the American Psychological Association, as well as a member of the Society of Indian Psychologists. He is a Black Indian whose tribal affiliations are Choctaw, Cherokee, and Creek. He recently published a book titled Counseling Native American Indians: Insights from Conversations with Beaver.   
 
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Sheehan Daniel Scarborough
Director of BGLTQ Student Life
Acting Director of the Harvard Foundation
Harvard College
Grays Hall B-003
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-496-0335

Pronouns: he, him, his