CU PRIDE™

Industry Influence - Because of the LGBTQ+ community's diversity, CU Pride™ is uniquely positioned to collaborate with other Diversity-centric organizations to provide best practices and education and seek out opportunities within the credit union movement as well as those organizations serving our members... ​The conversation hit the main stage at the 2018 Underground Collision when co-founder Linda Bodie was asked to speak to her experience as an openly out CEO. Her words stirred the LGBTQ+ professionals in the room. After the Underground Collision, the Linda Bodie and another original co-founder Dan Marquez began conversations about connecting the LGBTQ+ CU Professionals bringing in Brandi Stankovic and Zach Christensen. In 2020, CU Pride™ was informally launched in Washington D.C. as part of a #MeetUp during Mitchell Stankovic's Underground Collision RAW event, held in conjunction with CUNA's GAC and then formally launched in June of 2020 with the 1st Annual Virtual CU Pride™..