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First Name
Callie

Last Name
Youngman

Pronouns
she/her

Tags
Administration, Community-Building, HR/Compliance/Diversity Recruitment, Implicit Bias, LGBTQIA+ Justice/Queer & Trans Inclusion, Microaggressions, Title IX

Title
Teaching and Learning

Web Address
https://www.gvsu.edu/ceci/

Department
College of Education and Community Innovation

Biography
Callie Youngman has led, coached, and taught in a variety of contexts throughout her career, from the mountains of Alaska to college gymnasiums in The Deep South to a four-classroom alternative school in northern Michigan. The river of her professional life and experience has three significant and overlapping currents: Traditional and Alternative Education, Outdoor and Adventure Education, and Education through Sport. This integrative approach to education has afforded Callie with an orientation towards innovation and a drive to find creative, relevant in-roads to engage learners and leaders. She earned her Bachelor's Degree from Northern Michigan University and Master of Education in Educational Leadership at Grand Valley State University. The NMU Board of Trustees awarded her the Outstanding Female Graduating Senior for her class, and the NMU History Department named Callie the Outstanding New Secondary History Teacher. In 2021 she was recognized in the GVSU Graduate Dean's Citations for Academic Excellence for Outstanding Final Project, titled 'Using an Integrative Framework to Address Teacher Workforce Engagement in LGBTQ-Supportive Policies and Interventions.' At GVSU Callie has found an organization that allows her to leverage her skill sets to build the partnerships and communities required to scale and operationalize the principles and practices of equity, inclusion and accessibility. Callie's work with the Inclusion and Equity Institute and GVSU Athletics positions her as a collaborator across the region as well as a thought-partner, facilitator and co-conspirator to hundreds of students, staff and faculty here at GVSU. In true interdisciplinary form, she is currently working with leaders in Athletics, healthcare and PK-12 to build literacy, capacity and efficacy around engaging in critical conversations and mitigating barriers to improved safety and performance.