ROCKLAND — OUT Maine has officially hired a new staff member, Kiana Joler (she/her), as the organization’s Administrative Coordinator.

Joler graduated from Keene State College in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, focusing on multimedia as well as biology. She loves engaging with the community and creating connections in Rockland and throughout the state. She is an avid ally and is super excited to expand her advocacy work in her role. 

Outside of work, she can be found walking her crazy (but adorable) dog, reading, playing video games, or taking ridiculously long flights (the limited legroom is worth a beautiful destination).

Joler can be reached at kiana@outmaine.org. Her work will help to further the nonprofit’s mission of building welcoming and affirming communities for Maine’s LGBTQIA2S+ youth all across the state.

LGBTQIA2S+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning, intersex, and two-spirit. Allies are folks who do not identify as LGBTQIA2S+ but have camaraderie with the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Cis or cisgender means a person’s gender identity and sex-assigned-at-birth match. If gender identity and sex-assigned-at-birth do not match, a person may identify as transgender. For more definitions of LGBTQ+ terminology, visit www.outmaine.org/resources/terminology.

OUT Maine has an ambitious goal: to create more welcoming and affirming communities for Maine’s diverse queer youth in all their intersectional identities by changing the very systems that serve them. For more information, please visit www.outmaine.org.