Panel Member Spotlight: Phiwa Langeni, Salus Center





 The Rev. Phiwa Langeni is a trans-masculine genderqueer person who’s passionate about helping people understand that different doesn’t have to be dangerous. Phiwa is an ordained United Church of Christ minister and is the Founder/Director of Salus Center, Lansing’s only LGBTQ Resource and Community Center. 







Salus is the Latin word meaning wholeness and well-being. That it’s a word not commonly used lends itself to the beauty of co-creating the evolving meanings of salus within the LGBTQ communities of the Greater Lansing Area. Keeping LGBTQIA2S+ folk at the core, Salus Center strives to cultivate radical communities of care. We aim to empower people to authentically live into their whole selves, no matter what intersecting identities they embody.





To learn more about Salus Center, visit them on their website or on Facebook. To donate to this wonderful organization, click here!

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