The Gather Team is thrilled to announce that Dr. Ben Schilaty will be a mainstage presenter at Gather Conference Worldwide taking place in Provo, Utah this November 13-14*!

Dr. Ben Schilaty Phd MSW is a social work professor at Utah Valley University. He also works part-time as a therapist specializing in working with LGBTQ Latter-day Saints and their families. He holds three degrees from Brigham Young University: a bachelor's degree in Latin American studies, a master's in Hispanic linguistics and a master's in Social Work; he also earned a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona. Ben learned Spanish and Portuguese during his mission in Chihuahua, Mexico, and when he lived in Bolivia, Peru and, Portugal. He taught Spanish for a decade at the middle school, high school and college level. Ben is the award-winning author of A Walk In My Shoes: Questions I am Often Asked as a Gay Latter Day Saint and cohosts the podcast “All Out in the Open.”

=Ben has been part of the Gather Conference from the very beginning, in fact, he was one of the original organizers of this event and continues to serve on the Gather Conference Steering Committee.

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