In this episode, Naomi Simmons-Thorne and Latrice Johnson, two of our 2021 John Smartt Summer Scholars, invited Jonathan Wesley, Senior Director of Diversity and Inclusion in Academics at Southern New Hampshire University. Jonathan is an interdisciplinary practitioner, artist, academic, and activist with huge dreams of leading inclusive and safe communities for LGBTQIA+ students. He shares his experience migrating from New Jersey to pursue his education in the south and talks about his research on the LGBTQIA+ community, intersectionality, religion, education, and sociology. Jonathan further discusses the importance of having inclusive institutional leaders who advocate for LGBTQIA+ issues, the importance of community building amongst faculty, and discusses the importance of HBCUs having cabinet-level positions that focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Overall, while highlighting recent developments and innovations related to LGBTQIA+ communities at HBCUs, this episode explores the contributions HBCUs should make to LGBTQIA+ student affairs using a “cultural wealth” perspective.