7- ROYA AMIRNIROUMAND — Coordinator, Women with Pride, Pride Center
There’s no way around it. Her last name is a tongue-twister. But this vivacious 25-year-old is happy to be just “Roya” to her legends of fans within and without the Pride Center at Equality Park where she coordinates the Women with Pride program. “Coming out is a process,” Roya said, and it is a process she understands very well. “A lot of people in my life have asked about my personal sexuality. And the truth is at the end of the day, I am a woman—and the LBT community is at the heart of the women’s movement.” Hailing from New Jersey with a Master’s Degree from Rutgers University, Roya is as much a Dolly Levi as a woman’s advocate, introducing those within the Women with Pride program to reach out to one another and learn. “I learn every day,” she says. And with that knowledge, so goes the growth of the Women with Pride program which includes screenings and mixers and education seminars that pack the kind of energy that mimics Roya’s own.
