Indra Lusero

Assistant Director

Indra Lusero is the Assistant Director of the Center and a student at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She is currently researching reproductive health and the law. She received her B.A. in English from the University of Puget Sound and M.A. in Theatre at the University of Colorado. Her interdisciplinary work is published in The Journal of Democracy and Education, and Educational Insights, among others. She has worked as a teacher at the Logan School for Creative Learning and as the Education Director for Deproduction, a media production company. She has been an invited speaker at many colleges and universities, discussing family and identity. In the fall of 2009 she was selected for the 21st Century Fellows Program of the Pipeline Project to develop the leadership of people of color in LGBT organizations.

lusero@palmcenter.ucsb.edu

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What Does the Empirical Research Say about the Impact of Openly Gay Service on the Military?

Gays in Foreign Militaries 2010

Twenty-five nations now allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. In many of those countries, debate before the policy changes was highly pitched and many people both inside and outside the military predicted major disruptions, but when inclusive policies were implemented, no more than three people in each country actually resigned.

Indra Lusero

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