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Ariel Fleenary
Ariel is currently enrolled in Loyola’s dual degree program for Social Work and Women’s and Gender Studies. She earned two bachelor’s degrees, one in Psychology and one in filmmaking from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She took three years between undergrad and the start of her graduate program to work with foster care youth in a residential setting and spent one year at Ruth Ellis Center where she worked exclusively with trans and gender-nonconforming youth in the foster care system. Her research interests include LGBT+ health topics and anything related to sex or relationships. Ariel hopes to one day work as a pleasure-focused, LGBT+ inclusive, sex and relationship therapist unless she changes her mind because grad school is a long process, and her interests are many. Her other passions include dancing to pop songs with her partner and chasing her cat around her apartment.
