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8 Sep 2015

PLDI with Dean Beck & The LGBT Center with Ben Riley

Government & Organizations, Health, Sex & Sexuality

This week on the program Tex, Jack and Jessie welcome Dean Beck to look at what the Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) is all about, the potential it has in changing lives and making a difference in the community.

We also chat to Benjamin Riley, exploring the New York Rainbow Center (aka The New York LGBT Center). Is this a model what we can emulate locally?

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