Team Acknowledgements.
Special thank you to our committee, board members and staff!

Much time and talent went into creating the original 2018-2019 North Texas LGBT-Friendly Senior Housing Guide, the Online Guide, and continuing our
​mission to improve and protect the quality of life of older LGBT adults in North Texas through coordination and collaborations for health, housing, advocacy, financial security and social services.  ​
Program Director & Editor
Brian Price
Designer 
RafiQ Salleh-Flowers
Contributors
Jennifer Brown
Colleen Darraugh
Robert Emery
Cannon Flowers
Betty King 
Brian Price
RafiQ Salleh-Flowers
Housing Committee
Robert Emery, Chairman
Jennifer Brown
Mindy Cheek
Colleen Darraugh
​Betty King 
Brian Price
Coalition for Aging LGBT Board Members
Sandy Anderson, Chair
Kim Macpherson, Vice-Chair
Robert Emery, Treasurer 
Rana Spruell, Secretary 
Carolyn Roney
Mx Jaime Esposito
John Trevino
Hope Rivera
Coalition for Aging LGBT Staff
Organizational Outreach Manager
DR Mann Hanson, 
Volunteer Outreach Manager
Special Thanks
Dawnetta Miller, Ph.D 
Lavender Seniors
SAGE Metro Portland
​Carol Browolow 
Mya Chamberlin
Max Micozzi 
Ruth Szilagyi

Our Original 2018 CfA LGBT Housing Team

These team leads have devoted extensive time and insight working with senior housing communities to become more LGBT-competent and affirming. They are driven by their passion for improving the lives and homes of LGBT seniors. 
Top Row (from left to right): Gwen Bollinger, Jennifer Brown-Hodge, Brian Price, Mindy Cheek,
Middle Row: Colleen Darraugh, Carolyn Roney, Roseann Rossetti
​Bottom Row: ​Robert Emery, Dawnetta Miller ​

Jennifer
​Brown-Hodge

Jennifer Brown-Hodge is an experienced Business Development and Sales and Marketing Director for senior living in the Dallas and Fort Worth area and Marketing Chair for the Coalition for Aging LGBT board. She is also a board member and Housing committee team member.  Jennifer’s passion lies with helping all people achieve equality in health, home, happiness, and every aspect of our lives, in addition to serving those affected by Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Robert Emery

Robert Emery is a founding board member of the Coalition for Aging LGBT, having served as Vice-Chairman and, now, as a member of the Housing Committee. He has served on the boards of Black Tie Diner, Friends of WRR, Crossroads Theater; and he was a co-founder of The Dallas Way. Robert is dedicated to ensuring North Texas LGBT seniors have multiple options for supportive, respectful, and safe housing. Once your community has met the minimum standard, your community will  be included in the next North Texas LGBT-Friendly Senior Housing Guide.

Brian Price

Brian Price serves as program director for the North Texas LGBT- Friendly Senior Housing Initiative and editor for this housing guide. As board member and Housing Committee chair for the Coalition for Aging LGBT, he is proud to have a role in supporting safe, welcoming homes for LGBT seniors, giving back to those who paved the way for LGBT acceptance. Brian also serves on the board of The Dallas Way, and co founded the City of Dallas LGBT Employee Association as well as the newly formed North Texas LGBTQ Employee Resource Group Coalition, serving as its first chair.

Mindy Cheek

Mindy Cheek is in the business of serving seniors and currently serves as a Corporate Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Greystone. Mindy is a TEDx speaker and a senior living industry educator. Mindy presently volunteers for the Coalition for Aging LGBT and as an Education Ambassador for the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging.   

Betty King

A young LGBT activist in the early 1970’s, Betty understood there were minimal services, activities and lack of communication available in the North Texas LGBT community. She and  numerous, trained volunteers created a phone line, Gayline, to address the needs of the area: information, services, activities and professional expert help. Now she has returned as an activist to help the Coalition create a similar support system for senior LGBT members. Betty is in charge of coordinating LGBT programming for participating communities in the LGBT-Friendly Senior Housing Initiative. 

Roseann Rossetti

Roseann Rossetti is the Co-founder and President Emeritus of C.U.R.E. (Community Unity Respect Education, Inc.) a non-profit organization advocating for people living with HIV and AIDS. Working closely with The Names Project, C.U.R.E. was the caretaker of the AIDS Memorial Quilt for the DFW region. In 2001 she began her volunteer work in Collin County and Dallas with Health Services of North Texas, C.U.R.E., GALA North Texas, North Texas Pride and the Coalition for Aging LGBT.

Colleen Darraugh, B.Mus., M.Div.

Colleen Darraugh serves as our Trainer bringing over 35 years experience as a public speaker, teacher and service to the community in her career role as a Pastor. Colleen has addressed LGBT concerns in university classrooms for Social Work, Counselor Education, and Feminist Studies as well as being a speaker at a World Council of Churches, Consultation on Human Sexuality. Colleen has worked alongside groups of LGBT people as they entered senior status and retirement and is the primary caregiver for an 85 year old.

Dawnetta Miller, Phd

Dr. Dawnetta Miller is a past Board member and Officer of the CFA LGBT Board. During her term, she was chair of Plano’s first LGBT Summit on Aging, attended by more than 300 participants, co-chair of the housing committee, and served on the governance & finance committees. In December 2016, Dr. Miller contacted SAGE in Portland, OR, the nation’s first organization to publish an LGBT Senior Housing Guide, gathering ideas and information that would prove essential to the formation of the CFA LGBT’s housing initiative. Dr. Miller was happy to be a part of this work and  congrats the  Housing Committee volunteers for North Texas’ first guide.

Carolyn Roney

Carolyn Roney began her working career as a teacher and coach and later moved to corporate America in the field of Human Resources, working her way up to Vice President of Staff One before she retired. She became the Assistant Director at Rosewood Assisted Living and Memory Care where she worked until her mother passed away in 2014. She served/s on many Boards including Oaklawn Community Services, Black Tie Dinner, Texas Pride Impact Funds and Coalition for Aging LGBT. She is now the caregiver for her 98 year old father and happily retired from professional work so she can concentrate on her volunteer work with Seniors and the LGBTQ community.