24-Hour Anti-Violence Bilingual Crisis Line
Wingspan Staff
Director of Programs
Oscar Jimenez (ext 125)
Oscar is a native of Southern Arizona. He was born and raised on the Mexico/U.S. border and moved to Tucson after high school graduation to attend college. Oscar first came to Wingspan as a participant of the Queer Voice youth program in 1996. It was at Queer Voice that an interest in working for the social justice movement was born. Oscar has been a staff member at Wingspan for 5 years and holds the position of Deputy Program Director and AVP Manager. Oscar currently sits on the City of Tucson’s Human Right’s Commission and is a member of the Southern Arizona Hate Crimes Task Force executive committee. Oscar’s personal mission is to help engage and support underrepresented LGBT voices in the broader LGBT movement for equality. Oscar is also a writer and filmmaker and has recently completed two films that address social issues.
Programs Manager
Casey Chimneystar Condit (ext 127)
Born on the West Mesa of Albuquerque, NM, and raised from Taos to Tucson, Casey is deeply rooted to the land, people and politics of the Southwest. Her academic background is in Sociology, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her deep commitment to dismantling systems of oppression has led her to spend the past 14 years learning and leading workshops on institutionalized racism, classism, heterosexism, misogyny, reproductive justice, sexual health, relationship violence and grief. Casey is an artist and a spitfire intent on helping to create a community in which we can all survive and thrive. She has invested 14 years so far in Tucson’s LGBTQQIA community and has no plans to stop soon. Prior to her current position, Casey spent 5 years as a participant and volunteer in Wingspan programs, 8 years working at the Southern AZ AIDS Foundation as an educator and HIV tester, and then served as Wingspan’s Youth and Family Programs Manager. For Casey, working at Wingspan, is a way to return the life-saving empowerment she gained through participation in Queer Voice/Eon as a youth. When not at Wingspan she can be found amid a bevy of classic tin wind-up toys, devouring a new book, dutifully tending to her plants or soaking up the sun.
Youth Programs Coordinator
Zami Tinashe Hyemingway (ext 121)
Born and raised in Southern California, as his mother’s youngest daughter, Zami Tinahse Hyemingway is a University of Arizona Alumni, graduating in spring 2009 with a Bachelors of Art in Africana Studies and minor in Pre-Law. While at the UA, Zami was involved in the Associated Students of the University of Arizona’s (ASUA) Pride Alliance as an executive board member, as well as holding the position of Director for two years. Zami is currently the Youth Programs Coordinator for the Eon Youth Lounge, a drop-in center for LGBTQ and straight allied youth ages 13-23. There, he works on the iTEAM project, which is a collaborative project to help LGBTQ and straight allied youth between the ages of 15-23 establish stable housing, receive free counseling from a licensed therapist, and receive comprehensive safer sex information. Zami also coordinates the Arizona GSA Network, for the National Association of GSA Networks, and sits on their Steering Committee from September 2011-present. Zami sees his work as an opportunity to share and develop his passion for educating people about intersecting oppressions within communities of color and the LGBTQ community, and how issues of race, gender, religion and sexuality are all intertwined and thus require people to consider identity and social injustices in multi-layered and nuanced ways.
Anti-Violence Programs Coordinator
Kristi Smith (ext 119)
Kristi Smith has been working with Wingspan since 2009. Before coming to Wingspan, Kristi worked within the anti-violence movement as an advocate against child abuse as well as an activist promoting healthy relationships. In her role as AVP Coordinator, Kristi sits on several committees such as the Southern Arizona Hate Crimes Task Force and the Pima County Domestic Violence Task Force. Working with survivors of violence is a true passion for Kristi, but another passion is dance. So in her spare time, Kristi performs with a local performance troop called Rotten Apples.
Homeless Youth Project Coordinator & Anti-Violence Programs Advocate
Kevin Jackson (ext 115)
Kevin Jackson, a native Tucsonan, is Eon Youth Center’s Homeless Youth Project Coordinator and has been a staff member at Wingspan for 2 years. Kevin has been working with homeless, runaway, and street-dependent youth for over 16 years and has developed accredited, best-practice street outreach, shelter, and transitional housing programs for youth and young adults in our community. Kevin serves as one of the co-chairs of the Homeless Youth Committee for Tucson Pima Collaboration to End Homelessness and as a co-chair and Southern Arizona Representative of the statewide Arizona Committee on Youth Homelessness. In addition to his passions for the providing support and advocacy to our younger LGBT brothers and sisters he is an avid music fan and collector, enjoys multi-cultural cuisines, bears (the two-legged, queer variety), camping, and spending time with Steven Finch, his husband of 16 years and their two (adorable little) dogs Qytti Chiricahua and Shush Yazzie.
Development Operations Coordinator
Moureen Drury (ext 118)
Moureen was born in raised in a small town in upstate New York. She moved to Tucson in 2006 to pursue a bachelor’s in Family Studies and Human Development with a minor in Teaching and Teacher Education from the University of Arizona. As an intern for an event planning company, Moureen worked with several non-profit organizations in fundraising before coming to Wingspan as a development volunteer in 2010. After volunteering with the development team for several months, Moureen accepted the position of Development Operations Coordinator in May of 2011. She would describe herself as detail oriented with a passion for fundraising. Her personal interests include scrapbooking, watching her Steelers play football, and reading on her porch.
Accountant
Susan Lindgren (ext 134)
Susan joined Wingspan in June 2011 as staff accountant. She has an MBA from the University of Arizona, an MLS from the University of Michigan and a BA in English Literature from the University of New Hampshire. She was an auditor in public accounting for 6 years with Coopers & Lybrand and has held numerous accounting positions in the accounting industry. Prior to that, she was a reference librarian at the University of Vermont. Susan was born and raised in Camden, NJ. She has been in Tucson for 33 years. She served on the Board of Directors for the Humane Society of Southern AZ for 9 years and has rescued, placed or kept many animals over the past 30 years. She is currently owned by 7 cats. In addition to cleaning litter boxes, Susan spends her free time watching Phillies baseball, reading, and enjoying the company of friends. Susan feels that Wingspan is “home”.
iTEAM Program Coordinator
Khara Ellasante
Khara, iTEAM Program Coordinator, has been a member of the Wingspan team since February 2008. Having served the Eon Youth Program in multiple capacities during this time, Khara’s current responsibilities include the coordination of the comprehensive network of care for LGBTQQIA youth provided by the federally funded iTEAM project, a collaboration of six agencies. In her hometown of Memphis,Tennessee, Khara attended the University of Memphis, graduating in 2005 with English and Sociology majors and Spanish and Biology minors. She is currently completing a M.A. degree at the University of Arizona. Khara is a poet, artist, blues devotee, and the Official Favorite Person of her two dogs, Flower and Bean.
Wingspan staff email addresses are constructed as follows: first letter of first name + last name at wingspan.org. For example, Oscar Wilde(owilde@wingspan.org).
