Jan Muller

Jan Muller has been involved with community action since she was 10 and wrote her first letter to the editor of the Detroit Free Press supporting her fifth-grade class field trip with an all-black inner-city elementary school. Currently she is Co-Chair of Triangle Community Works and is concentrating a lot of her time working to establish an LGBT Community Center in the Research Triangle Area. She is a volunteer for the Gay and Lesbian Helpline and for AnimalKind.

Her past volunteer contributions have included chairing the Marketing portion of Pride '97 in Carrboro, serving on the boards of Hopeline, Threshold, and the Food Bank of North Carolina, and helping out with La Fiesta del Pueblo, the annual statewide Latino health, cultural/arts and information fair sponsored by El Pueblo. In August 2003, she was celebrated by the Triangle Lesbian Resource Center as one the Triangle Womyn recognized for their community involvement. In December 2003, the Triangle Business and Professional Guild nominated her as a Community Leader.

She has lived in Raleigh since 1968, and is always surprised when people say there aren't any lesbians in Raleigh! There are lots of them— just maybe just a little more spread out than in Durham or Chapel Hill! So come out, come out—wherever you are!