Having been arrested several times while taking part in protests it’s clear that Haven Herrin, executive director of Soulforce, is willing to practice what she preaches.

Soulforce, a non-profit organization focusing on LGBTQ issues, dedicates itself to “relentless nonviolent resistance,” and Herrin’s presentation on campus tomorrow night will teach students about what that looks like in today’s world.

“Soulforce is about in your face activism, but not like, chaining yourself to a car,” said Tyler Walker, undergraduate assistant at the Gender Identity/Expression and Sexual Orientation Resource Center.

Brianna Tollackson, chair of the Gender and Sexual Alliance, aided Soulforce over the summer in winning the $100,000 Queer Youth Fund grant, and has been working since before that to get Herrin to WSU after seeing her keynote speech at a “Power of One” conference.

“They have a unique way of presenting the information,” Tollackson said.

The presentation, entitled “Jumping in the Waters,” will make connections between religion, societal norms, suicide statistics, and other things to give insight into some of the challenges LGBT members face and what it will take to change them, Tollackson said.

“We’ve made many strides,” Walker said, “but we aren’t done yet.”

Herrin will use the time to focus on the forms modern activism can take and how it has changed since previous generations.

“It’s geared toward everyone, not just the LGBT community,” Tollackson said.

Herrin has been a part of multiple protests against inequality, including the college campus focused Equality Ride, and the Right to Serve campaign against the army’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

“I hope people who come learn that they just have to stand up for someone who can’t,” Tollackson said, “or give a voice to someone who doesn’t have one.”

Herrin will give a workshop in CUB 406 at 12 a.m. today and a presentation at 7 p.m. in the Compton Union Building auditorium.