Our Team
Liz Bradbury (she/her)
Board Chair
Allentown, PA
Liz Bradbury was co-founder of the Pennsylvania Gay and Lesbian Alliance for Political Action (1994). She led the effort to pass the first Pennsylvania municipal civil rights law’s inclusion of Gender Identity (along with Sexual Orientation) in 2002, in Allentown. She has worked to craft and successfully pass 19 other municipal and state pieces of LGBTQIA+ equal rights legislation in Pennsylvania. Publisher of the Valley Gay Press Newspaper for 18 years. Founder and CEO of Pennsylvania Diversity Network for ten years until it became Allentown’s Bradbury-Sullivan LGBTQ Community Center (BSC), in 2014. Until 2023, she served as Director of the BSC’s Training Institute where she’s trained over 300 organizations - over 17,000 people - on LGBTQIA+ issues. She is a certified SAGE trainer.
Liz ran the Lehigh Valley’s LGBTQ+ Infoline for 25 years. She served the Allentown Human Relations Commission for 15 years (3 years as Chair) where she created the guidelines for investigation and trained commissioners. She is a longtime member of Pennsylvania State Juvenile Justice SOGI Committee and is also a PA National History Day LGBTQ+ Judge.
She currently serves as Chair of the Lehigh County Human Relations Commission. She led the 3 year effort to craft Lehigh County’s groundbreakingly inclusive countywide model non-discrimination ordinance which passed into law in February of 2024, with the input and support of a diverse Human Relations Council on which she served. This Lehigh County Ordinance is the most inclusive and progressive non-discrimination law in Pennsylvania. As it’s primary author, Bradbury is an expert regarding this kind of law and is currently working with other PA County legislative bodies to pass similar ordinances using the Lehigh County Ordinance language.
Bradbury has written over 400 published articles on LGBTQIA+ issues and has been called in as an expert on television and radio news debates and interviews, and to speak to government committees and legislative bodies, and as an expert witness in discrimination cases. She is a national award winning artist and is the national award winning author of the Maggie Gale Mystery series. Bradbury has lived in Allentown with her spouse Patricia Sullivan, EdD., since 1987. They were the 1st same-sex couple from Pennsylvania to get a civil union (2000), and were legally married in Connecticut in 2009. The LGBTQ Community Center in Allentown was named after them for their decades of work in the LGBTQIA2+ community.
Moira Kaleida is the National Coalition Director for the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), an education justice coalition that strives to unite union and community organizations in coalition to realize an equitable, just, and transformative public education system.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Moira has a degree in education from Penn State University, and has combined her academic knowledge and lived experience (as a student, teacher, parent, school board member, and wife of a teacher) to beat the drum of public education across Pennsylvania. She is excited to lead the important work of AROS at a national level.
In 2015, Moira was elected to serve on the Pittsburgh Public School Board, leading the policy and government relations committees. As a school board member, Moira was able to pass critical policies at the local level, with the help of the local AROS affiliated group (Great Public Schools Pittsburgh), including providing LGBTQIA+ protections for students, a “Sanctuary Schools” policy, a pre-K to 2nd grade suspension ban, and the creation and implementation of the first Community Schools Policy and corresponding opening of the first three community schools in the city.
Professionally, Moira has served as a Chief of Staff for a City Council member and a State Representative in PA. She has also worked in a variety of organizing roles in the political, electoral, and education justice settings. Most recently before arriving at AROS, she was proud to organize with Pittsburgh’s own 412 Justice. In 2022, Moira was excited to join the inaugural board of Keystone Equality, advancing civil rights for LGBTQIA+ Pennsylvanians through voter mobilization, electoral advocacy, and political organizing.
Moira resides in Pittsburgh with her husband, two children, three cats, and too many goldfish. In her free time, Moira enjoys watching government meetings (yes, really), doing jigsaw puzzles, reading anything she can get her hands on, bad karaoke, and tap dancing.
Moira Kaleida
Board Vice Chair
Pittsburgh, PA
Applications Committee; Former Board Chair, Lancaster LGBTQ+ Coalition; Former Family Planning Coordinator, Alder Health
Wendy Cheesman
Board Secretary
Lancaster, PA
Board Treasurer
Endorsement Committee
Bullett is a native of Huntingdon. He is a founding member of Keystone Equality and serves as the representative for Huntingdon, Blair, Centre, Bedford, Fulton, Mifflin and Juniata counties. He holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.P.A. in Government Finance from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He began his career as a state government intern in Harrisburg and moved to New Jersey where he served in public finance roles in both the private and public sectors.
Bullett was the co-founder of the group Diversity Huntingdon – We Welcome Everyone! leading its successful efforts that resulted in the adoption of an inclusive non-discrimination ordinance in Huntingdon - the first rural community in Pennsylvania to adopt such an ordinance - and now serves as the chair of the Huntingdon Human Relations Commission.
Bullett has been an equality advocate since his undergraduate days at Penn where he assisted in growing programs for underrepresented populations. As an alumnus, he was a founding member of the James R. Brister Society, an alumni group organized to advise the Trustees at Penn and named after Penn’s first African American graduate, and served as Treasurer for many years of the former Urban League of Metropolitan Trenton. He was active with several LGBTQIA2+ groups in New Jersey and southeast Pennsylvania including the Trenton Gay and Lesbian Civic Association in which he successfully resurrected CapitolRainbowfest, Trenton’s PRIDE celebration. Bullett was a delegate to the Annual General Meeting of InterPride in 2007 that was held in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also wrote for Out in Jersey magazine.
After returning to Pennsylvania, he assisted in gathering religious backing for Pennsylvania Equality in support of The Fairness Act. He attended the 2009 National Equality March which was life-changing. Currently, Bullett is a member of Keystone Queers, a Huntingdon County based social and support group and a longtime volunteer for Hometown Hearts, Inc.
Anthony Bullett (he/him)
Travis Bost attended Delaware Community College 2008-2011 and is a Penn State University (2013 - 2017) graduate.
Travis is a longtime activist for the Transgender community, has particular experience working for the rights of non-biological Transgender parents and Transgender family members, demanding respect and full participation in relation to children and youth institutions, child services, hospital and healthcare, and within the court system.
Travis’s own daily work and his work with high powered attorneys resulted in a formal reprimand issued by the court system to a lower court judge who was Transphobic and intentionally disrespectful.
Travis’s resolute and tenacious 6 year legal action brought his own family’s case all the way to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania where a panel of Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices overturned a lower court’s anti-Transgender ruling, granting Travis standing to seek adoption of his non-biological child. This reversal of an undercount’s ruling added potential strength to future positive rulings affecting Transgender non-biological parents. The story of Travis’s actions was covered in a featured article in the Philadelphia Gay News.
Travis, who lives in Delaware County, is also committed to working on the passage of LGBTQ+ inclusive Human Relations legislation in Delaware County municipalities especially including Upper Darby
Travis Bost (he/him)
Board Member
Upper Darby, PA
Applications Committee
Bre resides in Lock Haven, Clinton County, with her wife, two children, dog and cats. She's been involved in LGBTQ activism since 2015 and is the founder of Clinton County Pride Alliance. Additionally, Bre has been involved in the President's Commission on LGBTQ Affairs at Lock Haven University. She is a SafeZone Ally Trainer and offers free training to the community. She has recently been elected as the Chair of the Clinton County Democratic Committee and has aspirations to run for School Board. She is also a member of the Clinton County Democratic Women, a board member of Millbrook Playhouse and a committee member for Downtown Lock Haven, Inc.
Bre Brannan (she/her)
Board Member
Lockhaven, PA
Ariel Torres (He/Him) brings a wealth of experience to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and seeks to center community engagement as a critical component of his work and build relationships within the queer community of Pennsylvania.
Ariel currently works as the Associate Director for Lehigh University's Pride Center for Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. He has been at Lehigh since December to 2021 and enjoys being able to support, guide, and inspire queer students during their academic journey.
Ariel previously worked as Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center's Administrative Manager, and then went on to become their Pride Programs Manager, which led to producing the Lehigh Valley Pride Festival and other community events, for the next 4 years.
Ariel is a longtime leader in the Lehigh Valley drag community as Elektra Fearce St. James and has experience engaging volunteers in support of numerous LGBTQ+ non-profits.
Elektra Fearce St. James has performed across Pennsylvania & neighboring states and has received numerous drag titles including, Miss Gay Pennsylvania America (2009), Miss Stonewall (2009), Miss Gay Allentown America (2009), Miss Diamonz (2007-2008), and East Coast All American Goddess (2017). Elektra enjoys using her artistic vision to raise funds for LGBTQ+ organizations while celebrating drag as a cultural art form within the LGBTQ+ community.
Ariel loves the superhero scene. Ariel's favorite fictional character is Storm of the X-Men.
Ariel Torres (he/him)
Board Member
Bethlehem, PA
Mary Catherine Foltz, Ph.D. is a full time Associate Professor at Lehigh University.
She has published research on queer fiction and theory, feminist theory, environmental crises, and public humanities. In 2016, she published a monograph titled Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t (Palgrave), which won the Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award for Literary Criticism of English Language Literature. In 2021, Mary, with Co-PI with Suzanne Edwards, received a grant from NEH to support work in the Gloria Naylor Archive and to create edited volumes that provide new directions in scholarship based on Naylor’s archival praxis.
From 2016 to the present, Mary has served in leadership roles with South Side Initiative (SSI), which fosters university and community research collaborations to address pressing issues in the Lehigh Valley, PA. With SSI, she has developed several public humanities projects, including exhibitions built from the Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive, oral history projects, and literary arts programming.
Mary has facilitated and or conducted dozens of oral history recordings by groundbreaking LGBTQ+ activists in Eastern Pennsylvania. For several years she facilitated a community book reading group that focused on queer memoirs. For her work on regional LGBTQIA+ history, Mary received an ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship in 2021.
Her public scholarship in this area also has garnered awards, including Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center Leadership Awards (2023, 2018) and Lehigh University Pride Center’s OUTstanding Initiative Awards (2020, 2019).
She lives with her wife and college-aged son in the Bethlehem area of Northampton County.
Mary Catherine Foltz, Ph.D (she/her)
Board Member
Bethlehem, PA
Abby Trainor recently graduated with an Honors Bachelor of Arts in English and minors in Marketing and Political Science from Lehigh University. She now works as the Sales & Marketing Manager at B Social and is preparing for Law School. At Keystone Equality, she uses her versatile academic background to accessibly raise awareness to Anti-Discrimination legislation to voters and lawyers alike so that more counties in Pennsylvania will pass these protective ordinances.
In her free time, she plays rugby and collects more books than she can feasibly ever read
Abby Trainor (she/her)
Board Member
Lehigh Valley, PA
Kevin Wilson is a social worker, community organizer, and passionate advocate based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, bringing lived experience and professional expertise to their day job and their work with Keystone Equality. With a background rooted in both direct service and systems-level advocacy, Kevin works to bridge the gap between micro-level support and broader policy change in the Lehigh Valley and beyond.
Kevin has served on regional opioid and addiction task forces, provided counseling for individuals navigating substance use challenges, and facilitated support groups for nonbinary and gender-expansive folk. They are a committed advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights, with a strong track record of engaging institutions of higher education, as well as local and state governments, to advance inclusive and equitable policies.
In their volunteer work, Kevin speaks to parent groups of transgender youth, leads community-based support programs, and actively engages policymakers at every level—local, state, and federal—to counter misinformation and uplift the voices of trans and gender-expansive folk. Kevin also continues to be a community organizer with the aim of increasing civic engagement.
Outside of advocacy, Kevin is an avid collector of physical media, with a soft spot for vinyl records—particularly anything by Stevie Nicks. Kevin resides in the Lehigh Valley with their partner, and 3 cats.
Kevin Wilson (they/them)
Board Member
Lehigh Valley, PA
Our Current Interns
Wendy is a graduate-level social work student at Marywood University and a current intern at Keystone Equality, working under the field guidance of Liz Bradbury. Wendy believes in the transformative power of education and, through her studies, is helping to address the struggles of marginalized populations.
At Keystone Equality, Wendy contributes to statewide advocacy by supporting the organization’s digital presence and policy education efforts. She manages updates to the website, researches local ordinances and resolutions in Pennsylvania, assists with training, and helps connect the organization with leaders working to advance nondiscrimination protections.
Wendy brings extensive frontline and community‑based experience to her advocacy work, shaped by years supporting families, youth, and vulnerable populations across Pennsylvania. She has worked directly with families involved in county child protective services, provided drug and alcohol prevention and mental wellness training to schools and community organizations, and served as a Student Assistance Program liaison in multiple school districts. Her background also includes marketing and outreach in drug and alcohol treatment settings, as well as development roles in both homeless shelters and maternal support homes, and crisis intervention as a volunteer with Crisis Text Line. Alongside her professional roles, Wendy contributes to social work advocacy as part of the Influencing Meaningful Policy and Community Transformation (IMPACT) team, helping strengthen social worker participation in local and state elections and to elevate the profession’s presence in policy conversations. This breadth of experience informs her holistic, justice‑driven approach to community engagement and equality.
Wendy is committed to advancing dignity, equity, and full legal protections for LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians through collaborative, community‑rooted advocacy.
In Wendy’s spare time she likes to spend time with her college-aged son and daughter and two cats and dog and enjoys reading, cooking, and crafting. She and her daughter share a substantial supply of every craft and art material imaginable as well as piles of books she plans on reading after her education is complete
Wendy Wright (she/her)
Marywood University Intern
Lehigh Valley, PA
Agnes Crespo-Himstedt was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Puerto Rico, where she developed a lifelong passion for music, culture, and education. She pursued higher education at the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education.
After completing her degree, Agnes returned to Newark, New Jersey, where she continued her professional preparation through post-graduate studies at Montclair State University. She dedicated 11 years to the Newark Public Schools and an additional 23 years to the New Brunswick School District, enriching the lives of students through her commitment to music education.
In 2006, Agnes moved to Pennsylvania, where she is currently a Music Teacher in the Lehigh Valley Regional Schools and a proud resident of Palmer Township. She is also a graduate student in Social Work at Marywood University, completing her internship at Keystone Equality, where she supports advocacy and community-building efforts.
Agnes is the facilitator of the Non-Binary and Transgender Children’s Parent Support Group in Palmer Township and an active member of the Metropolitan Community Church. Her passion is creating safe, affirming, and inclusive environments for LGBTQIA+ youth, ensuring they feel valued, supported, and empowered.
In her personal life, Agnes enjoys hiking and attending Zumba classes at the Bethlehem Community Center. She is also the loving mother of two children, who continue to inspire her work and dedication.
Agnes Crespo-Himstedt (she/her)
Marywood University Intern
Lehigh Valley, PA
Our Former Interns
Abby Trainor (she/her)
Lehigh University Intern
Rhode Island
Abby Trainor recently graduated with an Honors Bachelor of Arts in English and minors in Marketing and Political Science from Lehigh University. She now works as the Sales & Marketing Manager at B Social and is preparing for Law School. At Keystone Equality, she uses her versatile academic background to accessibly raise awareness to Anti-Discrimination legislation to voters and lawyers alike so that more counties in Pennsylvania will pass these protective ordinances.
In her free time, she plays rugby and collects more books than she can feasibly ever read
Alana Schoonover (She/Her) — Macungie, PA
Lehigh University Intern
Rhode Island
Alana Schoonover is going into her senior year, majoring in sociology with a focus in criminology and a minor in social work at Millersville University. Her plans after college are to hopefully find a job as a case worker and then eventually going back to school for her master's in social work.
As an intern at Keystone Equality, She supports the organization’s mission to advance LGBTQIA+ rights across Pennsylvania by conducting in-depth research on county governments. Her work involves identifying key decision-makers, gathering contact information, and evaluating the political landscape to assess where local anti-discrimination ordinances may be successfully pursued. She also helps to build outreach strategies by learning about officials’ values and community priorities, contributing to effective, targeted advocacy efforts.
Maddy Dunn-Zeigler (She/Her)
York College Intern
Doylestown, PA
Maddy Dunn-Ziegler is currently pursuing her bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice/ Criminology with a minor in Sociology as an incoming junior at York College of PA. Maddy’s plans after college are to hopefully land a job in probation/ parole in Philadelphia. She has always cared about helping people who have never truly gotten the correct help over the years, and finds that her career and internship choices has helped her truly understand the work that needs to be done to create opportunities for those who have not been given the chance before.
As an intern here at Keystone Equality Maddy uses her knowledge from her classrooms and personal experience as a member of the LGBTIA+ to help further the development of this amazing organization. Her work at Keystone is seen throughout the website, as she is the main contributor to making this website look just as bright as the future of this organization and the state of PA.
Erin Smith-Dills (she/her)
Lehigh University Intern (Spring 2025)
Hi! My name is Erin Smith-Dills and I am a double major in Cognitive Science and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University.
Interning at Keystone Equality allowed me to work both directly with my community in the Lehigh Valley and across Pennsylvania as a whole. As an intern I updated Keystone Equality’s website with a variety of information including a page for local Pennsylvania queer organizations and their information, current news regarding the municipal elections happening across the state in 2025, and key information on candidates running for positions such as Supreme Court judges, mayors, county council, etc.
My work here allowed me to educate myself on how Pennsylvania puts in protections for the queer community and how we as voters can assist in these efforts, as well as help others access this information in a digestible way. My plan for my future career is to go into psychology/cognitive science research that uses my feminist education as a backbone. Melding my different interests together I hope to study something like biases or gender expression. Whatever the future may hold, Keystone Equality helped mold my understanding of queer activism in ways I will continue to put into practice.