Student Stories: Past Award Recipients

Kat Miller
Madison East High School
2007 Community Activist Award Recipient
Kat Miller has not only planned eight GSA conferences but has also presented more than twice that many workshops. She helped found her middle school GSA, and has been a driving force behind the Madison East High School GSA for four years, leading campaigns and regularly educating her peers and school staff -- including her elementary school teachers. As a member and current Youth Artistic Director of Proud Theater, she has written, produced, and acted in skits pertaining to LGBT youth for schools, community organizations, and churches around the state. Other roles include founding member of Top TEN, student leader in Teens Like Us, and awesome girlfriend to Ellie. She fought the marriage ban, lobbied her school board, and educated the Lieutenant Governor about LGBT youth. Of greatest impact, though, has been the example she has set for other youth activists. “Kat is a role model for making huge change in Wisconsin,” said her peers. “She makes things happen; she pulls it all together.” Kat will attend Lawrence University in the fall.