2026 Participant Biographies

Dr. Blaise Liffick has been the Director of Operations for Silent Witness Peacekeepers Alliance for the past 20 years. He is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Millersville University (MU). He has actively supported the LGBTQ+ community throughout his four decades as an educator, serving as a faculty advisor for the university's gay-straight alliance, as a founding member of the Executive Committee of the PASSHE LGBTQIA Consortium, the founding Chairperson of the Millersville University President's Commission on Gender and Sexual Diversity, and Chairperson and lead trainer of MU’s Safe Zone program.