The LGBTQIA+ Equity Team is available to help you find ways to be successful and thrive at MiraCosta College. Please consider our Team below as well as the staff and faculty listed on the OUT @MiraCosta page as resources and mentors to you. Reach out to any of us at any time. We are glad that you are part of our MiraCosta LGBTQIA+ community!
Amir Naranjo
Interim Student Services Specialist & Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) Student Club Advisor of Record
Pronouns: he/him
anaranjo@miracosta.edu
760.757.2121 x6973
Location: Oceanside Campus, Student Services Bldg, 14213
Remy Oropeza
Student Success Liaison (Campus Aide III)
Pronouns: they/he
Major: English
eoropeza@miracosta.edu
Fall 2024 Schedule: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9am - 3pm
Hello everyone, my name is Remy Oropeza (they/he). I am a genderfluid, demi/pansexual Mexican from a mixed-status, low-income household. I am majoring in English in hope of pursuing a career in higher education, and I wish to continue my work in advocating for the LGBTQIA+ community. Through my work, I am committed to maintaining spaces where students can feel free to express themselves and find a sense of community and belonging. As someone who grew up with a lack of resources and understanding of my own identities, I value the importance in ensuring that our students and community members have equitable access to the resources they need in order to thrive. With this in mind, I strive towards increasing awareness and understanding of intersecting identities present within our community, so we may provide resources that will best fit their specific needs.
Myshell Thomas
Community Assistant (Student Worker)
Pronouns: she/her
Major: Social Work, Spring 2025
Fall 2024 Schedule: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9am - 3pm
Hi, my name is Myshell, I identify as a transgender woman and I am originally from Lincoln, Nebraska. My pronouns are she, her, hers and I have spent the large portion of my life unhappily trying to fulfill the expectations of the gender I was assigned at birth. When I was 34 I made up my mind to move and make a new start in San Diego. I have gone through many challenges in my journey to affirm my gender but it has all been worth it. I am currently studying to get my degree in Social Work which I hope someday to be able to address issues pertaining to homelessness and addiction, particularly within the LGBTQIA+ community. I am very excited to be a part of the LGBTQIA+ Equity team here at MiraCosta where I am looking forward to the next stage of my journey!
Kristina Londy
LGBTQIA+ Campus Liaison & Director of Student Success and Equity
Pronouns: she/her
klondy@miracosta.edu
760.757.2121 x6460
Location: Oceanside Campus, Building 3700
Hailing from Oceanside, California, Kristina Londy (she/her) serves as Program Manager, Student Success & Equity and Campus Liaison for LGBTQIA+ needs at MiraCosta Community College. She is passionate and committed to shifting culture and ushering transformative change to be more inclusive of racialized and cultural experiences of those she serves. Her enthusiasm stems from her desire to advocate with and for people who are not traditionally centered in processes and experiences—hoping to be a catalyst that supports innovation and reconnection to practices, knowledge, and storytelling of the communities with whom she works. In addition, she is passionate about empowering people to be transformational agents of change in their spheres of influence to bring about liberation.
Kristina holds identity as a Black, multiethnic woman born to a multi-racial, multinational family. She was the first to pursue higher education and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services from CSU Dominguez Hills and received her Master of Science degree in Education from CSU Fullerton in 2011. Kristina also enjoys longboard skating, spoken word, shoebill storks, elephants, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches among her work.
