The Southeast Regional Unity Conference

The Unity Conference Steering Committee is a team of dedicated, passionate undergraduate and graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Please see our bios below.

I'm just a simple southern guy with a passion for Jesus
and Justice. I'm on staff with MCC as a Program Assistant as well as Co-Lead of the Transgender Resource Team. I am a two time Soulforce Equality Rider and a student in the Religious Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition, I serve on the board of UNITAS. During my free time I enjoy going to church, getting inked, and, doing social justice... all in the same day if possible. I draw my inspiration from Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Troy Perry, and Jay Bakker.

Camille Archie is a junior from Chapin, South Carolina majoring in economics and minoring in history. As a student, Camille has been committed to combating poverty, gentrification, food insecurity, and education inequality within her local community. In both Chapel Hill and South Carolina, she has works closely with underrepresented communities to ensure equal representation in the face of the seemingly "deaf and blind" majority. At UNC, she is an executive board member with Students for Poverty Reduction and Outreach, and an active member of Students for the Northside Community NOW. She plans to pursue her Masters of Accounting upon graduation.

 Haley Koch is an undergraduate Performance Studies major and Sexuality Studies minor.  She is also an organizer with United with the Northside Community Now (UNC-NOW), a group that performs to make and save history and to address issues of community development, gentrification, and civil rights; a facilitator of life performance workshops for area youth; a member of Interactive Theatre Carolina, a group that uses performance to promote social justice; and a singer with Voices of Joy, the St. Joseph C.M.E. gospel choir. She will be performing in "Trojan Barbie" and "Gender/Sex/Performance" this semester, also part of The Gender Project. This summer she will be conducting ethnographic research with queer people in Europe and the Balkans.

Victoria Facelli is a Communications Studies major in performance and is in her third year. She is a queer performer and focuses her work in terms of performance as ways to engage performance as civil disobedience as well as a way to build community and dialog. She now does hunger relief and anti gentrification work in the Northside community of Chapel Hill in between her role as the mother of The House of Hegemony, a conceptual queer performance drag house. Maria also served on the Unity Planning Committee in 2007. She is from Salt Lake City, Utah but identifies as a converted southerner.