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KNOW YOUR LEADER — Tim McBride takes over the Student GovernmentMay 1 as AU’s newest SG president. The School of Public Affairs sophomore hopes to look into the AU budget as part of his agenda.
Photo by RACHEL DEVOR / THE EAGLE
Meet McBride: AU’s next Student Government prez
By Zach C. Cohen
Mar 28, 2011 10:11 pm
On paper, School of Public Affairs sophomoreTimMcBride looks like the stereotypical Student Government president: involved in the SPA Leadership Program, College Democrats and the Undergraduate Senate.
He was appointed to the Senate in August 2010 by Speaker Eric Reath and has since worked on the SG budget, arts advocacy, the purchase of conflict-free minerals on campus and academic regulations.
But there’s more to him than meets the eye.
McBride will take over the SG May 1, but says he’s not going to be ruling from an ivory tower. He doesn’t want to be the disconnected SG representative that many students envision.
“I’m a student, not a president,” McBride said. “I want it to be a relaxed, calm, chill environment. I want it to be a student’s government, not a Student Government.”
McBride first became interested in politics when he was involved in the campaign to elect Sandy Poppiti as mayor of his Delaware hometown, Wilmington.
“I saw that, even though she lost, just participating could make a difference,” McBride said.
McBridehas also been involved with the election campaigns of Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, for attorney general; Matt Denn for Delaware state insurance commissioner and Jack Markell for governor of Delaware.
McBride saidMarkell has become a role model for him.“[Markell has] been a really close mentor and someone whose opinion I really admire and respect and who is an honest, trustworthy, intelligent, compassionate person,” he said.
McBride also started Delaware’s Young Democrats Movement with the help of Helen Boyer, a junior in SPA.
The president-elect said he loves AU for its inclusiveness and the friendly atmosphere it offers to all students. “I think that might be AU’s biggest accomplishment — it’s really become a haven for all kinds of people to feel comfortable, to feel welcomed and to make friends,” he said.
McBride also has a place in his heart for the arts, as he earned an education in film from the Cab Calloway School of the Arts, where he met Vice President-elect Liz Richards.
“The arts are a fantastic resource, for not only creative expression obviously, but expanding our minds in ways that affect our academics, our intellectual capabilities and our empathy for others,” McBride said.
During his term, McBride hopes to investigate the University’s finances, create a University Senate, work for better resources for the GLBTA community and advocate for the Sustainability Fund.
“We have a lot of ideas that I’m very excited about,” he said. “But at the end of the day, even if we mobilize people on this campus, even if we have all of our facts straight, a lot of it will still rest with the administration. I’m anxious to see what kind of reception our ideas get within the administration.”
McBride hopes to return to his home state to become a civil rights attorney after graduating in 2013.
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Tim McBride
Full NameTimothy Ryan McBride
Date of Birth Aug. 9, 1990
Hometown Wilmington, Del.
Favorite Band Dave Matthews and The Roots
Favorite American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Favorite Movie American Beauty
Favorite State “Delaware is the greatest state in the history of the United States.”
Facebook Habits “I’m a chronic ‘liker’ on Facebook. I have a very limited Facebook footprint, but I ‘like’ everything.”
https://www.theeagleonline.com/article/2011/03/meet-mcbride-aus-next-student-government-prez
>I'm so sick of these tranny lunatics
Op-Ed: The Real Me
Yesterday, I ended my term as AU’s student body president. I have learned and grown so much over the last year, both personally and professionally. As proud as I am of all of the issues we tackled together, the biggest take away, for me, has been the resolution of an internal struggle.
For my entire life, I’ve wrestled with my gender identity. It was only after the experiences of this year that I was able to come to terms with what had been my deepest secret: I’m transgender.
For me, it has been present my whole life, but, for the longest time, I couldn’t accept it.
At an early age, I also developed my love of politics. I wrestled with the idea that my dream and my identity seemed mutually exclusive; I had to pick. So I picked what I thought was easier and wouldn’t disappoint people.
To avoid letting myself and others down, I rationalized my decision: if I can make life a little fairer for other people, then that work would be so fulfilling that it would make me feel complete and somehow mitigate my own, internal struggles. I told myself that if I could make “Tim” worthwhile for other people by changing the world, that being “Tim” would be worthwhile.
As SG President, I realized that as great as it is to work on issues of fairness, it only highlighted my own struggles. It didn’t bring the completeness that I sought. By mid-fall, it had gotten to the point where I was living in my own head. With everything I did, from the mundane to the exciting, the only way I was able to enjoy it was if I re-imagined doing it as a girl. My life was passing me by, and I was done wasting it as someone I wasn’t.
I told my family and some of my closest friends over winter break. My brothers and parents greeted me with immediate support and unconditional love. This was the first time that my parents have had to worry about my safety, my job prospects and my acceptance. This story is my experience and my experience alone. There is no one-size-fits-all narrative; everyone’s path winds in different ways.
The experience highlights my own privilege. I grew up in an upper-income household, in an accepting environment and with incredible educational opportunities. I never worried about my family’s reaction.
But those worries are all too common for most. For far too many trans individuals, the reality is far bleaker; coming out oftentimes means getting kicked out of your home. I say this not to diminish my own experience, but to acknowledge the privilege and opportunities which have been afforded to me.
Today is the next day of the life I’ve already had, but at the same time, the first day of the life I always knew I wanted to lead. Starting on Saturday, I will present as my true self. Going forward, I ask that you use female pronouns (she/her) and my chosen name, Sarah.
With every birthday candle extinguished, with every penny thrown, my wish was always the same. I am now blessed with the opportunity to live my dream and fulfill a truth I have known since childhood. My gratitude is great to my family, friends and this university for accepting me as the person who they now know me to be, and for letting me show them the possibilities of a life well lived.
I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don’t try.
Sarah McBride is the outgoing SG President.
McBride backs Abby Finn
I wasn’t initially planning on endorsing in the Student Government presidential race. I certainly had my own personal preference, but I intended to stay out of the campaign and leave the candidates to themselves.
However, as the campaign progresses, I have decided that, like a number of students, campus clubs and The Eagle, I cannot stay silent on the largest issue that will impact the effectiveness of the Student Government over the next year: who will be our next SG President.
Over the last year, I have dedicated roughly 50 hours a week to advocating for the student body. In that time, I have learned a lot, from both my successes and my failures, about what it takes to do this job and to do it effectively.
In my opinion, there is one candidate whose message, platform, personality and experience make her uniquely qualified to assume the presidency, and that candidate is Abby Finn.
Despite our progress this year on issues ranging from financial aid to LGBT advocacy, all of us still have a number of issues with American University. We need an SG President who has the ability to turn those complaints into tangible, realistic goals and to unite us behind them.
Throughout this campaign, Abby Finn has demonstrated that she can bring a constructive, inclusive vision to the challenges that we face as a community. She is not focusing on a single issue, but knows that there are a wide variety of issues important to the student body; what is important to you, is important to Abby. In this race, she is a candidate who is offering both a positive message and achievable goals, instead of saturating our Facebooks with negativity or impossible promises.
AU and AUSG can always do better, and it has been said in this campaign that radical change is still necessary. I certainly do not disagree. The question is, who has the skills to deliver the change we seek? Abby Finn has the experience and abilities to be ready to fight for change on day one.
While serving in SG, she has never accepted the organization or University’s status quo and has continually fought to change it. We need a president who can bring people together through both their rhetoric and their actions. During this campaign, Abby Finn has shown that she is that kind of candidate and will be that kind of president.
I have had the privilege of working with Abby over the last two years during her time in the Undergraduate Senate. Abby has been a leader on significant issues facing the student body, from sexual assault prevention to helping to craft the SG’s new scholarship fund. In all of these interactions, I have found Abby’s compassion, dedication, zeal and follow-through to be a breath of fresh air. Her leadership is reliable, consistent and selfless.
It is for these reasons that I’m proud to say that I’m in with Finn. I urge you to visit her Facebook page to learn more about her vision for a more inclusive, accessible and open AU. I hope you join me in voting for Abby Finn on March 27 and 28.
Tim McBride
Student Government President
https://www.theeagleonline.com/article/2012/03/mcbride-backs-abby-finn
Coincidentally there's a Anita Mcbride faculty member at American University who used to be Laura Bush's chief of staff.
Don't know if they are related but her husband is named tim and she has a "daughter" named Sara no H
Anita McBride
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Anita McBride
(202) 885-6604
ADV | Advancement Operations and Administration
4401 Connecticut Avenue NW 518
Bio
Anita B. McBride is executive-in-residence at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. She directs programming and national conferences on the legacies of America’s first ladies (the First Ladies Initiative) and their historical influence on politics, policy, and global diplomacy.
McBride's White House service spans two decades and three presidential administrations. McBride previously served as assistant to President George W. Bush and chief of staff to First Lady Laura Bush from 2005 to 2009, directing the staff’s work on the wide variety of domestic and global initiatives in which Mrs. Bush was involved. She had primary responsibility for the First Lady’s efforts to support US foreign policy objectives in human rights, women’s empowerment, global health and human freedom. She directed Mrs. Bush’s travel to 67 countries in 4 years including historic visits to Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Thai-Burma border. She served, as director of White House Personnel under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and as director of the U.S. Speaker's Bureau at the United States Information Agency.
Also under President George W. Bush, McBride served as a special assistant for White House Management; as senior advisor in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Organizations and as the State Department's White House liaison.
McBride co-founded the RAND African First Ladies Initiative and Fellowship program, partnering with Africa’s first ladies to champion change for health and education, and to train their staff and advisors in strategies for establishing and managing an effective First Lady’s office.
McBride is an advisor to the George W. Bush Institute as well as a strategic consultant to global non-profit organizations. She is a member of several organizations, including the US Afghan Women's Council, the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, and the White House Historical Association.
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Staff ed: New insurance policy furthers equality on campus
College is a time to find one’s true identity, and with AU’s new insurance policy all students finally have the capability to reach this goal.
AU became the first university in D.C. to cover transitional care and gender reassignment surgery,a tremendous step toward equality for the transgender community.
This dramatic, yet fantastic leap forward will create a more friendly and equal environment on AU’s campus for years to come.
Prospective students may now take a closer look at AU when deciding between similar universities. This change shows AU is dedicated to making an equal campus community for all students. Even if one is not transgender, prospective students may be encouraged by the fact that we care enough about this issue to turn it into policy.
Student Government deserves much of the credit for getting this policy passed. SG President Patrick Kelly and former SG President Sarah McBride worked tirelessly to sponsor and pass this new legislation in March, as The Eagle previously reported.
The one worrisome part of this transition is that it has potential to be undone. The student insurance policy is renegotiated every year based on student need. Therefore, if students are not using this policy it may not be included in the budget further down the road.
This poses a problem for many reasons. First, the process of transitional care can take more than a year in itself. There are medications, therapy and various other medical issues that go along with gender reassignment surgery. If a student with AU insurance decides to get the surgery and then the policy disappears next year, how will they pay for the rest of their medical needs?
Along with this, because the policy is so new, students may not take advantage of it in the first few years. The administration needs to understand that this policy is monumental, and with every new change people need time to get used to it and fully take advantage of its benefits.
However, students should not be too concerned about this policy disappearing. AU administration was very receptive to Kelly and McBride’s original idea and were enthusiastic about making this policy a reality. As long as students continue to support the legislation, the policy will stay.
We congratulate AU administration and SG for making this monumental change happen. AU is now, and hopefully forever, a more equal and open campus environment for all students. – E
edpage@theeagleonline.com
Alum Sarah McBride wins another award for LGBT activism
By Freddy Rodriguez
Jul 3, 2014 3:54 pm
Sarah McBride, a former Student Government President and AU alumnus, received a Next Generation Award by Next Generation Leadership Foundation last month.
McBride never expected her story to receive national attention after she came out in 2012, she said. Her latest award, featured in Metro Weekly, adds to the list of accomplishments she has had since graduating from AU in 2013.
The Next Generation Leadership Foundation “is dedicated to inspiring, nurturing and mentoring LGBT youth and young adults, creating spaces for them to lead in a variety of fields, from business to politics to activism to arts,” according to its website. Each year, the foundation selects a panel of LGBT leaders in the D.C. area.
This panel then chooses four distinct individuals who have made significant contributions or have incredible potential based on their activities to make positive change in the community, according to Sean Bugg, executive director of the Next Generation Leadership Foundation.
“Sarah has already accomplished a lot,” Bugg said. “When I was at Metro Weekly, we were already writing stories about Sarah’s experience at American University as she was making a big impact promoting and making people aware of transgender issues.”
All these initiatives that McBride had put forth aided the panel’s ability in choosing her as a recipient of the foundation’s award. She exemplified what the panel searched for in its selections by contributing to the LGBT community through her activism, Bugg said.
“From my personal perspective and why I’m so glad that she was one of the awardees this year,” Bugg said. “If you listen to her speak and if you listen to the way she talks about issues and if you listen to the hope and optimism that she approaches life with, you understand that she’s going to go a long way.”
McBride’s first public statement as Sarah came in the form of an op-ed for” The Eagle”:http://www.theeagleonline.com/article/2012/5/the-real-me, three years before the Next Generation award.
Her op-ed made national news, drawing the attention of venues ranging from The Huffington Post to NPR.
“It was sort of surreal,” she said. “It was surreal having what at one time was my deepest secret, the secret that I couldn’t even admit to myself totally for the longest time, it was surreal to see that on the front page of Huffington Post and to see it on sites across the country.”
Since then, McBride has become a leader in advocating rights for transgender people.
“One of the benefits of that coming out was that people saw my name and people read my story,” she said. “I think that the way that I came out definitely created some opportunities, and I think that it wouldn’t had to the degree that it has if American hadn’t been so supportive and welcoming and made it such a positive experience.”
One of these opportunities included advocating for Senate Bill 97, an initiative for a non-discrimination ordinance in her home state of Delaware.
“I don’t think that I expected to be standing in front of the legislature speaking on a bill on helping to lead an effort on non-discrimination protection just a month after I graduated,” McBride said. “It was my time as [SG] president that showed me how to effectively advocate for ideas and that our best advocacy comes from our hearts and our values and that people respond to that.”
>Alum Sarah McBride wins another award for LGBT activism
Following McBride’s success with the passing of SB 97, she has gained distinct awards and recognitions. Alongside her Next Generation Award, she placed into the Trans 100 list earlier this year via the Trans 100 Team, a group that seeks to honor individuals in the transgender community who make a significant difference in the lives of transgender people.
She also spoke at The Human Rights Campaign’s national dinner in 2013 where stars and activists such as Jennifer Lopez, the cast of “The Fosters” and AU professor Julian Bond attended.
“It was exciting to share the stage with all of those incredible individuals and to be able to talk about my story and my positive experience at American and the work that I had been doing in Delaware,” she said. “To be able to talk about that in front of four or five thousand people was really a great opportunity.”
Above all else, transgender people are still people, and she wants her audience to know that, McBride said.
“Trans people are complex people with the same feelings, emotions, dreams, aspirations, families and friends that everyone else has,” she said. “And I think that sometimes, as a society, we can tend to dismiss all of the other components, all the other humanity in people who are different than us and narrow in on that one component that is new or different.”
Bearing this message, McBride now works for the Center for American Progress and Equality Delaware. She doesn’t want her work to exclusively focus on transgender issues or even LGBT issues, McBride said. Rather, she wants to continue to help establish the importance of intersectionality, similar to the work she advocated for as SG president.
“I think long term I want to make sure that I’m still giving back to my community, that I’m still trying to do work for not just LGBT people, but for people of every kind of background,” McBride said.
>You got it!
>Oh yeah. Forgot all about that weird and retarded display from the White House that year.
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