Family Diversity Projects :: About Co-Founders Peggy Gillespie and Gigi Kaeser

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	Our Annual Budget and Where It Comes From Family Diversity Projects (FDP) is a non-profit organization 501(c)3, which depends on grants and individual donations to help fund our annual budget. This past funding cycle, FDP received generous grants from The Arcus Foundation, Target and Daimler-Chrysler, as well as gifts from many individual donors. If you would like to make a donation please contact us.

Thank you to the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund for their recent support of In Our Family and Love Makes a Family.

Thank you to the Arcus Foundation for their generous grant for 2007-2008.

Family Diversity Projects has been funded by the following organizations since 1996:

The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The AEC Trust
The E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
The Icarus Foundation
The Tsunami Foundation
The Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation
The Funding Exchange
The Chicago Resource Center
The Frances R. Dewing Foundation
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
The Patrick-Murray Inaugural Committee
Many Generous Individual Donors

Thank you to our funders!


About Us

Peggy Gillespie

is the Co-Founder/Director of Family Diversity Projects. She is a certified social worker and co-founder and former Assistant Director of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center’s Stress Reduction Program. A graduate of Smith College with a master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma, Ms. Gillespie has worked as a freelance journalist for the past fifteen years. She has written major feature articles for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Redbook, Yoga Journal, and New Woman. She is the Editor-in-Chief of all of Family Diversity Project's exhibits and books. In addition she is the co-author of Less Stress (Signet) and the autobiography of choreographer/dancer Bill T. Jones entitled Last Night on Earth (Pantheon).

Gigi Kaeser

is an early childhood educator and photographer. She is co-founder and co-director of Family Diversity Projects and the photographer for all of their projects. She has had photographs published in Teaching Tolerance Magazine, the NAMI Advocate, Rethinking Schools, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe among others.

Family Diversity Projects General Advisory Board (Partial List)

Ellen Hofheimer Bettmann
Brooklyn, NY
Anti-Bias Education Consultant
EHB Consulting

Virginia Casper
New York, NY
Co-Director, Infant and Parent Development and Early Intervention Program
Bank Street College of Education

Debra Chasnoff
Berkeley, CA
Filmmaker/Director of It’s Elementary and That's a Family

Helen Cohen
Berkeley, CA
Film Producer of It’s Elementary and That's a Family

Tim Fisher
Washington, DC
Former Executive Director, Family Pride Coalition

Kevin Jennings
New York, NY
Executive Director, Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educators Network (GLSEN)

Bill T. Jones
New York, NY
Director, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

April Martin
New York, NY
Author, Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook

Lesléa Newman
Northampton, MA
Author, Heather Has Two Mommies

Sonia Nieto, Ph.D
Amherst, MA
Author, Affirming Diversity

Lesley Stahl
New York, NY
News Correspondent, 60 Minutes

Lynn Sullivan
Stamford, CT
Dean of Community Affairs, King & Low Heywood Thomas School

Lorraine Tiven
Albany, NY
National Director of Peer Education
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

Youth Advisory Board

Liza Mackenzie Styles
Amherst, MA
High School Student

Ekene Nwokoye
Medford, MA
Graduate, Tufts University

Ashley Watson
Northampton, MA
University Student

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In Our Family
Love Makes A Family
Nothing To Hide
Of Many Colors
Pioneering Voices
The Road to Freedom