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HOUSING GUIDE
Meet The Team
Colleen Darraugh, B.Mus., M.Div.
Colleen Darraugh serves as our Trainer bringing over 35 years
experience as a public speaker, teacher and service to the
community in her career role as a Pastor. Colleen has addressed
LGBT concerns in university classrooms for Social Work, Counselor
Education, and Feminist Studies as well as being a speaker at a
World Council of Churches, Consultation on Human Sexuality.
Colleen has worked alongside groups of LGBT people as they
entered senior status and retirement and is the primary caregiver
for an 85 year old.
Robert Emery
Robert Emery is a founding board member of the Coalition for
Aging LGBT, having served as Vice-Chairman and, now, as a
member of the Housing Committee. He has served on the boards
of Black Tie Diner, Friends of WRR, Crossroads Theater; and he was
a co-founder of The Dallas Way. Robert is dedicated to ensuring
North Texas LGBT seniors have multiple options for supportive,
respectful, and safe housing.
Betty King
A young LGBT activist in the early 1970’s, Betty understood there
were minimal services, activities and lack of communication
available in the North Texas LGBT community. She and numerous,
trained volunteers created a phone line, Gayline, to address
the needs of the area: information, services, activities and
professional expert help. Now she has returned as an activist to
help the Coalition create a similar support system for senior LGBT
members. Betty is in charge of coordinating LGBT programming
for participating communities in the LGBT-Friendly Senior Housing
Initiative.
Dawnetta Miller, Phd
Dr. Dawnetta Miller is a past Board member and Officer of the CFA
LGBT Board. During her term, she was chair of Plano’s first LGBT
Summit on Aging, attended by more than 300 participants, cochair of the housing committee, and served on the governance
& finance committees. In December 2016, Dr. Miller contacted
SAGE in Portland, OR, the nation’s first organization to publish an
LGBT Senior Housing Guide, gathering ideas and information that
would prove essential to the formation of the CFA LGBT’s housing
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initiative. Dr. Miller was happy to be a part of this work and
congrats the Housing Committee volunteers for North Texas’ first
guide.
Brian Price
Brian Price serves as program director for the North Texas LGBTFriendly Senior Housing Initiative and editor for this housing
guide. As board member and Housing Committee chair for the
Coalition for Aging LGBT, he is proud to have a role in supporting
safe, welcoming homes for LGBT seniors, giving back to those
who paved the way for LGBT acceptance. Brian also serves on
the board of The Dallas Way, and co-founded the City of Dallas
LGBT Employee Association as well as the newly formed North
Texas LGBTQ Employee Resource Group Coalition, serving as its
first chair.
Carolyn Roney
Carolyn Roney began her working career as a teacher and
coach and later moved to corporate America in the field of
Human Resources, working her way up to Vice President of Staff
One before she retired. She became the Assistant Director at
Rosewood Assisted Living and Memory Care where she worked
until her mother passed away in 2014. She served/s on many
Boards including Oaklawn Community Services, Black Tie Dinner,
Texas Pride Impact Funds and Coalition for Aging LGBT. She is
now the caregiver for her 98 year old father and happily retired
from professional work so she can concentrate on her volunteer
work with Seniors and the LGBTQ community.
Roseann Rossetti
Roseann Rossetti is the Co-founder and President Emeritus
of C.U.R.E. (Community Unity Respect Education, Inc.) a nonprofit organization advocating for people living with HIV and
AIDS. Working closely with The Names Project, C.U.R.E. was the
caretaker of the AIDS Memorial Quilt for the DFW region. In 2001
she began her volunteer work in Collin County and Dallas with
Health Services of North Texas, C.U.R.E., GALA North Texas, North
Texas Pride and the Coalition for Aging LGBT.
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