Note: Short piece contributors have their bios listed with their short pieces. If you helped with the production of this book but do not see your name listed, we apologize for the mistake. We did our best to keep track of everyone involved. However, with a project this large we are bound to have left people out. Please inform us of any omissions and we will update them in the next edition.
Rahne Alexander (Advisor, Arts and Culture) is a multidisciplinary artist from Baltimore.
Rabbi Levi Alter (Advisor, Our Many Selves; Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Religion and Spirituality; Aging; US History) is the spiritual leader of his congregation of Holocaust survivors, CEO of a health care corporation, president of FTM International, and a keynote speaker and organizer for major conferences and events.
Diane Anderson-Minshall (Advisor, Intimate Relationships) is the editor at large of The Advocate magazine and editor in chief of HIV Plus magazine as well as a journalist whose work has appeared in dozens of publications from the New York Times to Glamour magazine.
Jacob Anderson-Minshall (Advisor, Intimate Relationships) is a journalist and multimedia storyteller and the coauthor (with his wife, Diane) of Blind Curves, Blind Faith, Blind Leap, and the upcoming memoir, Queerly Beloved.
Michele Angello, PhD (Advisor, Coming Out, Mental Health Chapters) is a gender specialist working internationally with trans individuals and their families whose book On the Couch With Dr. Angello is a guide for parents who have gender-variant children, as well as for mental health and medical providers.
Joanne M. Arellano (Research Intern, Transgender Prison Issues) is a registered nurse.
Gabriel Arkles (Advisor, Immigration) is a collective member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and an associate academic specialist teaching at Northeastern University School of Law; he was also one of the founding board members of the Lorena Borjas Community Fund.
Kellan Baker, MPH, MA (Advisor, General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health) is the associate director of the LGBT Research and Communications Project at the Center for American Progress, a consultant on international transgender health with the Open Society Foundation, and an affiliated faculty member for LGBT health policy at the Center for Population Research in LGBT Health at the Fenway Institute.
Sadie Baker (Advisor, Activism, Politics, and Organizing) is an activist, an advocate for homeless and street-based LGBTQ youth currently working with Chicago’s Broadway Youth Center, and a former core member of the D.C. Trans Coalition.
delfin bautista, MSW, MDiv (Author, Religion and Spirituality) is director of the LGBT Center at Ohio University, board member for Call To Action and the Alliance for GLBTQ Youth, and a member of DignityUSA’s Young Adult and Transgender Caucuses.
Genny Beemyn, PhD (Author, US History) is the director of the Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of many works in LGBT Studies, including The Lives of Transgender People and A Queer Capital: A History of LGBT Life in Washington, DC.
Sarah E. Belawski (Author, Intimate Relationships) is an out and proud trans woman who works as a Senior Hearing Representative for the NYS Department of Labor. She has been the facilitator of the trans peer support group at the Capital Pride Center from 2010–2014 and has served on the Pride Center’s advisory council. She has presented at the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference and engages in activist work in the Albany, NY area.
Jesse Benet, MA, LMHC (Seattle Forum Organizer) is cohost/cofounder of the Seattle-based podcast Gendercast and administers jail diversion reentry programs in a systems coordination role to push against the prison industrial complex that criminalizes individuals based on mental health/substance use conditions as well as race, class, and dis/ability.
Ady Ben-Israel, MA, LCSW (Editing Team; Advisor, Coming Out) is a New York City psychotherapist working with people across a range of mental health concerns, specializing in areas of gender identity and gender nonconformity, sex/sexuality, and dynamics of oppression and privilege. Ady is the co-producer of the training video BAD FIT: Challenging the Prevalence of Homophobia, Transphobia, and Heterosexism in Social Work Education.
Regina A. BlackWolf, MSW (Advisor, Coming Out, Mental Health Chapters) is a psychotherapist in the Seattle area specializing in working with LGBT people as well as supporting adults with other life changes and various mental health-related and substance abuse-related challenges.
Nayland Blake (Advisor, Arts and Culture) is an artist and educator living in Brooklyn New York. He is currently the chair of the ICP/Bard MFA program in advanced photographic studies.
Cooper Lee Bombardier (Advisor, Arts and Culture)
Marci Bowers, MD (Advisor, Surgical Transition) is a gynecologic surgeon, formerly of Trinidad, Colorado, now practicing in Burlingame, California. She has been providing surgical care for the transgender community since 1995, is a member of WPATH, and serves on the board of directors for GLAAD and the Transgender Law Center (TLC).
Avi Bowie, LMSW (Advisor, Parenting) works with LGBTQIA homeless and runaway youth as the associate director of Overnight, Drop-in, and Outreach at the Ali Forney Center. Avi is also the cofounder and a former facilitator of the Transgender and Genderqueer Parents and Prospective Parents group at the NYC LGBT Community Center.
Helen Boyd, MA (Advisor, Intimate Relationships) is the author of My Husband Betty and She’s Not the Man I Married. She blogs at www.myhusbandbetty.com and teaches gender studies at Lawrence University.
Jennifer Finney Boylan (Author, Introduction), a professor of English at Colby College, is the author of 13 books, including Stuck in the Middle With You: Parenthood in Three Genders and She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, and also serves on the board of directors of GLAAD and the board of trustees of the Kinsey Institute for Research on Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
Cristin Brew, LMFT (Advisor, Our Many Selves) is a psychotherapist working with LGBTQ people in the Bay Area as well as an educator working to increase LGBTQ knowledge in the mental health field.
Kylar W. Broadus (Author, Legal Issues; Advisor, US History) is an associate professor at Lincoln University, a historically black college in Jefferson City, Missouri; division director of the Section for Individual Rights and Responsibilities in the American Bar Association; co-chair of the American Bar Association Committee for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity; a board member of the National Black Justice Coalition; a 2010 Rockwood Institute LGBTQ Fellow; and a founder of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute and the Trans People of Color Coalition (TPOCC).
Diane Bruessow, PA-C, DFAAPA (Editing Team) has been practicing family medicine in New York and New Jersey for over 20 years; she has served as a consultant on trans health for federal health agencies, including HRSA and CDC; and she has contributed over a decade of national nonprofit leadership for the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) and GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality.
Earline Budd (Advisor, Aging) is a transgender advocate and founding member and former executive director of Transgender Health Empowerment, Inc. She serves as a commissioner for the Office of Human Rights (OHR) and Mayor’s Commission on HIV/AIDS in Washington, D.C.
Ronald Burton (Illustrator) is a Los Angeles–based artist and writer whose work plays in the fertile mud of mixed spaces—cultural, sexual, and political—where all the best life forms are invariably found.
Patrick Califia (Advisor, Sexuality)
Tamar Carmel, MD (Author, Mental Health Services and Mental Health Concerns; Editing Team; Board Member) is a community psychiatrist, family physician, and LGBTQ advocate/educator in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Peter Cava (Author, Activism, Politics, and Organizing) is a board member of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council, the conference planning coordinator for Transecting Society, a PhD candidate in Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Public Intellectuals Program, FAU’s Lynn-Wold-Schmidt Peace Studies Fellow through its Peace Studies Program, and a writing consultant at FAU’s Center for Excellence in Writing.
Sand Chang, PhD (Advisor, General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health) is a genderqueer Chinese American clinical psychologist with a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, member of the APA’s Committee for LGBT Concerns (CLGBTC), and member of the APA Trans Practice Guidelines Task Force.
Christian, JD, BA (Intern, Legal Issues) is the President of Operations for a frozen yogurt franchise on the East Coast and a law school graduate with a concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies, utilizing his legal training as a public speaker, community activist, and educator on trans issues.
Jules Chyten-Brennan (Author, Surgical Transition; Editing Team) is finishing his degree as an osteopathic medical student at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and starting a residency in Internal Medicine.
Eli Clare (Advisor, Disabilities and Deaf Culture) is white, disabled, and genderqueer, and happily lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where he writes and proudly claims a penchant for rabble-rousing.
Loree Cook-Daniels (Advisor, Aging) is policy and program director for FORGE, Inc.
Leah Cooperson (Advisor, Arts and Culture)
Axil Cricchio, MA, ABD (Advisor, Sex and Gender Development; Advisor, Global) is a community and social activist/advocate and adjunct faculty at California State University, Monterey Bay and the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he researches how the language of social systems and cultural constructs shape(s) the way we learn, embody, and perform gender presentation and gender roles as dominant aspects of our identity.
Paisley Currah, (Advisor, Legal Issues) is a professor of political science and gender studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Theo Czerevko (Advisor, General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health) is a social work student at Hunter College.
Annie Danger (Advisor, Arts and Culture)
Dallas Denny, MA, Licensed Psychological Examiner, TN (Ret.) (Author, Media Spotlights; Advisor, Sex and Gender Development) is a writer, activist, educator, former editor of Chrysalis Quarterly and Transgender Tapestry, former director of the Fantasia Fair, founding director of the American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc., and board member of Real Life Experiences.
Maddie Deutsch, MD (Author, Medical Transition) is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Clinical Lead for the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at UCSF, founder and director of the Transgender Health Program at the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, and sits on the editorial boards for the International Journal of Transgenderism and the Journal of LGBT Health.
Kylan Mattias de Vries (Advisor, Intimate Relationships) grew up in Vancouver, Canada, received his PhD in sociology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and is currently an assistant professor at Southern Oregon University, where he teaches sociology and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. Kylan’s research interests include inequalities, intersectionality, queer theories, transgender studies, critical race studies, and social psychology.
Tara DeWitt, PhD (Advisor, Coming Out, Mental Health Chapters) is a psychologist who works with the LGBT community in the West Village area in New York City.
kd diamond (Illustrator) is an artist whose work has been featured in numerous books and anthologies, including Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation; Tristan Taormino’s Ultimate Guide to Kink; S. Bear Bergman’s Backwards Day and much more; she is also the founder of Salacious magazine.
Morty Diamond (Advisor, Arts and Culture) is a writer, artist, activist, editor of Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary (Manic D Press) and From the Inside: FTM and Beyond (Manic D Press), working with and for the LGBT community for the past 12 years, focusing primarily on social justice issues concerning gender identity, and currently working on his masters of social work at San Francisco State University.
lore m. dickey, PhD (Author, Mental Health Services and Support, Mental Health Concerns) is a trans man, an assistant professor at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, and an active member of the American Psychological Association.
Brooke Donatone, PhD (Editing Team; Advisor, Coming Out) is a senior clinician, LGBT liason, and leader of the Gender and Sexuality team at NYU Counseling and Wellness services.
Jack Drescher, MD (Advisor, Mental Health Chapters) is a distinguished fellow of the APA, emeritus editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, and a training and supervising analyst at the William A. White Psychoanalytic Institute.
L. Zachary DuBois, PhD (Advisor, Global) is a biocultural anthropologist whose Transitional Stress Study involved health measures and in-depth interviews with 65 trans men in New England about their transitional experiences. He currently conducts health disparities research as a postdoc at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Ray Edwards, MA (Survey Intern) is a freelance research consultant and data analyst in social psychology working with transgender, genderqueer, and gender nonconforming communities in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area, and is also currently in training to become an herbalist.
Randall D. Ehrbar, PsyD (Advisor, Coming Out, Mental Health Chapters) is a psychologist working at Whitman Walker Health Center in Washington, DC, and in private practice in Maryland with expertise in LGB and trans issues, serves on the editorial board of International Journal of Transgenderism, is a member of WPATH and the American Psychological Association (APA), is currently serving as a member of an APA task force writing guidelines for care of transgender clients, and served on the WPATH revision committee for the Standards of Care version 7.
Nancy S. Erickson, Esq, JD, LLM, MA in Forensic Psychology (Advisor, Our Many Selves, Legal Issues) is an attorney specializing in domestic violence and custody evaluations in cases involving child or intimate partner abuse.
Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, MA (Lead Editor; Author, Sex and Gender Development; Founding Organizer; Board President) is a psychiatrist working with LGBTQ people in New York City, associate editor for the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, and a board member of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality and the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP).
Shoshana Erlich (Advisor, Disabilities and Deaf Culture) is a hard of hearing, disabled, genderqueer activist, currently attending Ryerson University in the Child and Youth Care Program, who blogs for Shameless magazine about their experiences around intersectional feminism.
A. Evan Eyler, MD, MPH (Advisor, Mental Health Chapters, Aging) is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine/Fletcher Allen Health Care, and is coeditor of the books Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Aging: Challenges in Research, Practice and Policy and Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery.
Wesley Flash (Social Media and Fundraising) is a graduate of Hampshire College and NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study master’s program. His research focused on LGBTQ YouTube-user trends and he was invited to present his work as a TEDx talk in New York City.
Riley Fitzgerald (Advisor, General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health)
Lila Freeman (Advisor, Intimate Relationships, Sexuality) is an artist and a public librarian in Brooklyn, New York.
Alex Gannon (Research Intern, HIV/AIDS)
Andrew Garland-Forshee, PhD, HS-BCP (Advisor, Coming Out) is a professor in the department of Early Education and Family Studies at Portland Community College (Portland, Oregon), and a contributing faculty member for the School of Social Work and Human Services at Walden University. He is a consulting editor for the Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality and a peer reviewer for the International Journal of Childbirth Education.
Pooja Gehi, JD, MA (Advisor, Immigration) is an activist, author, and attorney at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York City, where she is director of immigrant justice and represents hundreds of low-income transgender and gender nonconforming clients in immigration proceedings, administrative proceedings, and civil rights litigation.
Cecilia Gentili (Author, Employment; Editing Team; Board Member) is a Trans-Latina originally from Argentina by way of Miami who is currently the Trans* Health Program Coordinator at APICHA community health center, and has worked at the Gender Identity Project at the LGBT Center in New York since 2011, as a volunteer, intern, and now consultant.
Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, PhD (a.k.a. Michael A. Gilbert) (Author, Sex and Gender Development; Advisor, Our Many Selves) is a professor of philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada, director of Fantasia Fair, and the author of many articles on gender theory and argumentation theory as well as several books on the latter subject.
Vic Glazer (Advisor, Intimate Relationships, Sexuality) works in IT sales in New York City and volunteers with LGBT people in Brooklyn, New York.
Zil Garner Goldstein (Author, Social Transition and Employment; Editing Team; Advisor, Media; Board Member) is a nurse practitioner at Beth Israel Medical Group and the Peter Krueger Center in New York, where she practices primary care, focusing on transgender health, LGBT/queer health, and HIV primary care, and is involved with the Persist Health Project, which serves people in the sex trade.
Nick Gorton (Author, General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health) is a physician who provides health care to transgender patients at Lyon-Martin Health Services, while working closely with the Transgender Law Center.
Jamison Green, PhD, MFA (Author, Media Spotlights; Advisor, Legal Issues) is a writer, educator, and advocate residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), a director of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute, and author of Becoming a Visible Man.
Hilary Maia Grubb, MD (Author, General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health; Advisor, Sex and Gender Development; Mental Health Chapters) is a resident in General Adult Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and primary author of several new LGBT health curricula for the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Columbia University School of Nursing, and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program.
Ali Harris (Transcriptionist, New York City Forum Group Facilitator) is a Brooklyn-based queer health advocate and organizer, presently pursuing his masters degree at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, with a career focus on improving research in transgender health care outcomes.
Evan R. Hempel (Survey Intern) is a transmasculine writer, activist, and dreamer from Boston, Massachusetts, as well as clinical research professional and data manager working out of Boston and Washington, DC, and a board member of Transgender Health Empowerment (THE) in Washington, DC.
Imani Keith Henry, MSW, MPA (Advisor, Our Many Selves; Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Activism, Politics, and Organizing; Social Transition) is an activist, writer, and performer, and a staff organizer at the International Action Center (IAC), focusing on national organizing of communities of color and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement toward broader social justice and antiwar campaigns.
Lance Hicks (Author, Youth) is a mixed-race, transgender, queer Detroiter who does queer youth organizing, sex worker street outreach/support, and crisis intervention.
Tobi Hill-Meyer (Author, Sexuality, Sex Worker section of Employment chapter) is a multiracial trans activist and filmmaker who founded Handbasket Productions, where she created Doing It Ourselves, the first and currently only porn film made by and for trans women and their community.
Jack Hixson-Vulpe, BEd, MA (Publicity Intern; Advisor, Disabilities and Deaf Culture) is a PhD candidate in gender, feminist, and women’s studies at York University in Toronto, Ontario, as well as a certified primary teacher and a social justice activist.
Ruben Hopwood, MDiv, PhD, (Author, Mental Health Services and Mental Health Concerns) is educated in psychology and theology, works at Fenway Health in Boston, MA, exclusively with the trans* community and health care providers, and is a member of WPATH, the American Psychological Association (APA), and APA Division 44: Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues.
Cassidy Anne Medicine Horse, MA (Advisor, US History) is a university instructor, invited lecturer, film director, LGBT political activist, transgender scholar, and researcher working in Bozeman, Montana, and member of the American Indigenous Research Association, American Association of University Women (AAUW), and the Montana State University LGBT Advisory Committee (AIRA).
Sel J. Hwahng, PhD (Advisor, Global) is a co-investigator at the Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center, an adjunct professor at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University, and has published over 20 articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.
Suzanne Iasenza, PhD (Advisor, Mental Health Chapters) is on the faculties of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ICP) and the Derner Institute’s Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at Adelphi University. She is coeditor of the books Lesbians and Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Theory and Practice (1995) and Lesbians, Feminism and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave (2004) and maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and sex therapy in New York City.
Joe Ippolito, PsyD, LICSW (Author, Aging; Advisor, Coming Out and Mental Health Services) is a doctor of psychology, a behavioral health clinician with Allina Health Systems, a psychology professor at Metropolitan State University, the founder and chair of Gender Reel, the administrative director of 2 Queers and A Camera, and the producer and director of Growing Old Gracefully: The Transgender Experience.
Christopher J. Irving (Advisor, Activism, Politics, and Organizing) is completing his MFA in creative fiction with a preference for postapocalyptic realism at Florida Atlantic University, where he works as a writing consultant at its University Center for Excellence in Writing. He has been teaching for 6 years.
Jay A. Irwin, PhD (Advisor, Mental Health Chapters) is a medical sociologist at the University of Nebraska at Omaha whose research focuses on LGBT physical and mental health, as well as transgender identity and advocacy.
Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW (Editing Team; Editor, US History; Board Member) is a psychotherapist, activist, and presenter in the New York City area focusing on LGBTQ and sexual/gender minority communities, on the board of directors for the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, and is completing and pursuing publication of her own book, Many Paths: The Choice of Gender.
Andrea James, MA (Advisor, Social Transition) is a writer, director, producer, and activist focusing on LGBT media and transgender consumer issues, including Transamerica, the first all-transgender Vagina Monologues, and the Transsexual Road Map instructional site.
Aron Janssen, MD (Advisor, Children and Youth) is a child and adolescent psychiatrist specializing in gender and sexual development who has presented nationally and internationally on gender variance in childhood and adolescence, and directs the NYU Gender and Sexuality Service.
Kevin Johnson, MD (Author, Glossary; Editing Team; Mental Health and Surgery Editor; Board Member) is graduating from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, and pursuing a residency program in psychiatry. At Cornell he was cochair for Q! LGBTQ Students in Medicine and Science at Weill Cornell, promoting transgender medical education and advocacy.
Sean Johnson, MSW, MPH (2014) (Seattle Forum Organizer) is a student/researcher at the University of Washington, the cofounder/cohost of Gendercast, and a community activist passionate about building an intersectional movement that works toward liberation and equity for everyone.
Ami B. Kaplan, LCSW (Advisor, Aging) is a psychotherapist in New York City who works with transgender and queer individuals and family members and is a member of the Policy and Procedures Committee of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
Cael M. Keegan, PhD (Intern, Media) is visiting assistant professor of LGBT Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, a member of the National Women’s Studies Association’s Transgender Caucus, and sits on the editorial board of the journal Genders.
Reese C. Kelly, PhD (Advisor, Sex and Gender Development) is assistant dean/LGBTQA advisor at Dartmouth College, a researcher and scholar of trans/queer theory, and a cochair of the Trans Caucus of the National Women’s Studies Association.
Colt Keo-Meier, PhD (Author, Youth; Advisor, Children) is a clinical psychologist in Houston, Texas; cochair of the Committee for Transgender People and Gender Diversity of Division 44 of the American Psychological Association; cochair of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Student Initiative; and cofounder of Gender Infinity, an annual Houston-based summer conference created for gender diverse and transgender children, youth, and their families.
Aidan Key (Author, Children; Advisor, Youth) educator and organizer, is the founder of the family education and support organization Gender Diversity, the director and founder of the Gender Odyssey conferences, cofounder of Gender Spectrum and Translations: Seattle’s Transgender Film Festival, and speaks nationally on issues related to trans children, teens, and adults.
HeJin Kim (Advisor, Global) is a trans activist and blogger, who has worked on transgender, sex worker, and sexual health and reproductive rights issues in Europe, South Korea, and now in South Africa at Gender DynamiX.
Anna Kirey, MA (Intern, Global) is a researcher at the LGBT rights program of Human Rights Watch, founding member of the LGBT organization Labrys (Kyrgyzstan), advisory committee member of Urgent Action Fund, Global Fund for Women, and Mamacash Fund, and member of Post-Soviet Trans* Advocacy Network.
Jeremy Kirk (Advisor, Activism, Politics, and Organizing)
Kate Kourbatova (Author, Immigration; Advisor, Intimate Relationships) is a gender-fluid human from post-Soviet Eastern Europe who recently graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in anthropology and is now searching for the intersection between making a living and doing what they love.
SJ Langer, LCSW-R (Editing Team; Advisor, Mental Health Chapters) is a psychotherapist and writer in private practice in New York City, member of the Executive Committee for the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapies-Psychotherapy Center for Gender and Sexuality’s Trans Symposium, and member of the organizing committees for the mental health programs for the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference.
Nichole Latimer (Social Media Intern Director) is an MA candidate in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, where her research focuses on the alternative political visions presented by digital communities of nonmetropolitan trans* youth.
Dana LaVanture, MD (Advisor, Surgical Transition) is a board-eligible general surgeon and a current fellow in Hand Surgery at the University of Connecticut.
Celeste LeCompte (Developmental Editor) is a writer and editor with more than a decade of experience working on environmental, public health, and social justice issues.
Jessie Lee (Advisor, General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health) is a hapa trans woman working in medical research and plans to pursue a biomedical PhD.
Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC (Advisor, Coming Out and Mental Health Chapters) is a gender specialist and family therapist. She is a lecturer at the University of Albany and Smith College, and the author of Transgender Emergence and The Complete Lesbian and Gay Parenting Book, as well as one of many authors who revised the WPATH Standards of Care.
Rachel N. Levin, PhD (Advisor, Sex and Gender Development) is an associate professor in the Departments of Biology and Neuroscience at Pomona College and the principal investigator on a research project that examines biological influences on gender identity and sexuality that has over 1, 000 participants.
Kestryl Cael Lowrey, MA (Author, Arts and Culture) is a Brooklyn-based scholar and performance artist, and is the creator of performances such as XY(T), 348, and RADCLYFFE: The Completely Honest and Mostly True Story of Victorian England’s Second Most Notorious Invert.
Miss Major (Advisor, Activism, Politics, and Organizing) is 70 years old and lives in Oakland, California. She is affiliated with the Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project.
Zack Marshall (Author, Disabilities and Deaf Culture) is a trans guy with a disability and a passion for community-based participatory research, social justice, and supporting the development of more welcoming and accessible nonprofit organizations whose most recent disability-related work was with Griffin Centre’s sprOUT, a collaborative community-based project developed in partnership with LGBTQ people labeled with intellectual disabilities.
Denise M. Maynard, MLAS, SAS/SDA (Editing Team) has spoken internationally on education, is the founder/director of Maynard’s W.I.S.D.O.M. Inc., an educational consulting service, and has been an elementary educator since 1986, specializing in early childhood education.
Christopher A. McIntosh, MSc, MD, FRCPC (Advisor, Mental Health Chapters) is a psychiatrist and head of the Gender Identity Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, and coeditor-in-chief of The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health.
Tey Meadow, JD, PhD (Advisor, Children and Youth) is a sociologist and the Fund for Reunion-Cotsen Fellow in LGBT Studies at the Princeton Society of Fellows; she is also on the board of directors of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC).
Dylan Thomas Mendenhall, BS (Advisor, Immigration) coordinates the forest monitoring program at EarthCorps and does restoration ecology research in partnership with the University of Washington.
Edgardo Menvielle, MD (Advisor, Children and Youth) is a child and adolescent psychiatrist specialized in problems related to the development of gender and sexual identity, Department of Psychiatry, Children’s National Medical Center, in Washington, D.C.
Joanne Meyerowitz (Advisor, US History) is the Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University and the author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Harvard University Press).
Shannon Price Minter (Author, Legal Issues) is the legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, one of the nation’s leading legal advocacy organizations for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people; and serves on the boards of Equality California, Faith in America, and the Transgender Law and Policy Institute.
Scott Loren Moore (Short Piece Editor; Editing Team; Advisor, Sex and Gender Development and Sexuality) is a teacher, a workshop facilitator, a writer, and an employee of the New York City Department of Education.
Zeraph Dylan Moore (Survey Intern) writes on queer and transgender topics for The Alchemist’s Closet, Wild Gender, and The Alchemical Postmodern Theorist, a journal of queer possibility and off-the-map theory.
Chris Mosier (Advisor, Legal Issues and Social Transition; Volunteer) is an advocate, educator, athlete, and coach, and is the creator of transathlete.com.
Quince Mountain (Author, Religion and Spirituality) is an editor of Killing the Buddha, a literary magazine on religion.
Ronica Mukerjee FNP, LAc (Advisor, General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health) is a licensed family nurse practitioner and acupuncturist and director of Transgender Health at a community health center in New York City.
Deb Murphy (Advisor, Youth) is a youth services specialist working with LGBT youth in Houston, Texas.
Niyoka Nelson (Survey Intern)
Kate Nemeth (Fundraiser Videographer) is a writer and artist working with new media in New York City.
Leo Newball, Jr (Web Development and Design) started building Web sites in 1995, when domain names cost just $35 and everyone’s favorite search engine was Yahoo! Fifteen years and a couple of executive position jobs later, he now uses his development, design, and data skills to create dynamic Web sites for a wide variety of clients in fields like film, nonprofits, and corporations.
Amanda Ocasio (Social Media Intern; Survey Intern) just finished her master’s degree in History at Brooklyn College, where she focused on assorted issues related to gender. In Fall 2014, she will be joining the journalism program at Hofstra University as a graduate student.
Lisa O’Connor, MD (Editing Team; Advisor, Surgical Transition) a National Platform Speaker, is a board-certified family physician in solo practice dedicated to the transgender community; a board-certified cognitive behavioral therapist; a voting member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH); a member of The American Association of Sexuality Educators Counselors and Therapists (AASECT); a member of GLMA Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality; a member of The World Association for Sexual Health (WAS); a Kink Aware Provider (KAP) with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF); a retired US Army veteran; and a member of the Ad Hoc Committee for DADT Transgender Inclusion.
Johanna Olson, MD (Advisor, Children) is the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Her career is dedicated to clinical care and research promoting authentic living for all youth.
Asaf Orr (Advisor, Children, Youth, and US History) is a staff attorney at the National Center for Lesbian Rights and works on issues related to families and youth.
Heather Palmer (Publicity Intern)
Kristin Pape (Editing Team; Advisor, Disabilities and Deaf Culture, Coming Out, and Sexuality) teaches literary, film, and cultural studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where she helped start and now advises the student group of women architects and the group for LGBTQ student architects.
Jude Patton LMHC, LMFT, PA-C (Advisor, Aging) is an out and proud trans* man who has provided medical and counseling services for LGBTI folks in southern California and in northwestern Washington State for the past 41 years, and one of the pioneers in advocacy and education regarding trans* health issues.
Pauline Park (Advisor, Activism, Politics, and Organizing), chair of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) and president of the board of directors and acting executive director of Queens Pride House, led the campaign for the transgender rights law enacted by the New York City Council in 2002.
Lazlo Ilya Pearlman (Art Editor; Author, Arts and Culture) is a performing artist and author with 30 years of experience making Queer and Trans theatre in the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe, and is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of London Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Kim Pearson (Advisor, Children) is Training Director and cofounder of TransYouth Family Allies (TYFA).
Karen Pittelman (Advisor, Immigration) is the author of Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It for Social Change, helps organize the Trans Justice Funding Project, and works as a writing coach in Brooklyn, New York.
Kel Polly (Author, Parenting) is a queer-identified gender activist with a passion for expanding social understanding of gender, promoting youth empowerment, and providing opportunities for children to explore gender expression, without fear of rejection. Kel lives with their partner of five years, and together they co-parent four children.
Ryan G. Polly, PhDc, MEd (Author, Parenting) is a queer-identified trans man, parent of four children, and PhD candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, researching the experiences of trans-identified parents.
Abigail Proffer, MD (Advisor, Parenting) is an obstetrician/gynecologist working in the Kansas City metropolitan area and is active in promoting women’s health in the community.
MiKami Puchon, MSW (Advisor, Race, Ethnicity, and Culture) is a practicing social worker in Brooklyn, NY.
Jack Pula, MD (Advisor, Mental Health Chapters) is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in New York City and an advocate for transgender mental health.
Anita Radix, MD, MPH, FACP (Editing Team; Advisor, General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health, Medical Transition, and Surgical Transition) is the Director of Research and Education and an internist/HIV specialist at the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in New York City.
Naim Rasul, MA (Author, Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Editing Team; Advisor, Our Many Selves; Board Member) is a case manager/health educator for trans and gender nonconforming youth within the Health Outreach to Teens (HOTT) Program at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in New York City.
Katherine Rachlin, PhD (Kit) (Advisor, Coming Out, Mental Health Chapters) is a clinical psychologist and gender specialist in private practice in New York City, a past board member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and FTM International, and is an author/coauthor of a number of trans-positive published papers, book chapters, reports, and policy statements, including WPATH’s Version 7 of the Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender, Transsexual, and Gender Nonconforming People.
Sara Rafferty (Advisor, Activism, Politics, and Organizing)
Lewis A. Raynor, PhD, MPH, MS (Advisor, Sex and Gender Development) is a genetic epidemiologist with a passion for social justice.
Elana Redfield (Author, Immigration) is an attorney with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and a board member of the Lorena Borjas Community Fund, both based in New York City.
Elizabeth Reis, PhD (Advisor, US History) is the author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex; the editor of American Sexual Histories; and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon.
Sari Reisner, ScD, MA (Advisor, Coming Out, Mental Health Chapters) is a research scientist at the Fenway Institute at Fenway Health and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health who earned a doctor of science in social epidemiology with concentrations in quantitative methods, human development, and gender and health, and has coauthored more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and presented his research in transgender health nationally and internationally.
Bryce Renninger (Advisor, Global)
Heath Mackenzie Reynolds (Author, Social Transition; Author, Employment; Assisting Author, Religion and Spirituality) is a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College of Philadelphia with over a decade of experience as a social services provider and community organizer in health centers, community organizations, libraries, and congregations. Heath has centered their work in trans, queer, and HIV-affected communities, Jewish communities, and with poor and working class people.
Mx. Ignacio G. Rivera, MA (Advisor, Sexuality), who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they,” is an internationally known queer, Two-Spirit, Black-Boricua Taíno, lecturer, activist, sex educator, filmmaker, and performance artist whose body of work has focused on gender and sexuality, specifically on queer, trans, and sexual liberation issues within a race/class dynamic.
Ms. Jamie Roberts, JD (Author, Trans Political Leaders) practices law as a criminal defense attorney in middle Georgia and is recent co-chair of Georgia Equality, Georgia’s statewide TLBG education and advocacy organization, as well as secretary of her County Committee of the Democratic Party of Georgia.
C. Rodriguez-Fucci (Advisor, Parenting) is a reluctant social work grad student and has a history of work in the queer and trans antiviolence movement. His long-term goal is to play more and work less. . . or, better yet, turn work into play! Cara is a proud parent and likes talking about the intersections, overlap, and complexities of our identities. . . particularly trans*, POC, queer, kinky, parent, survivor identities.
Amanda Rosenblum (Founding Organizer; Volunteer and Outreach Director; Editing Team; Board Vice President) is an educational programming manager at the Young Women’s Leadership Network, a network of all-girls public schools in New York City, is currently enrolled in the Urban Education Masters Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, and has a special interest in prison advocacy and working with students.
Hershel Russell, MEd (Advisor, Aging) is a psychotherapist, educator, and activist working with LGBT communities and with families of gender nonconforming children in Toronto, Canada. He is lead mental health trainer for the Trans Health Connection program at Rainbow Health Ontario (RHO) and cochair of the Education Committee of the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health (CPATH).
Syd Salsman (Art Editing Intern) is a student at UC Davis and aspiring librarian.
Barbara Satin (Advisor, Aging) is an 80-year-old transgender advocate whose energies are focused on issues of LGBT aging and faith, currently serving as assistant faith work director for The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. She is celebrating the opening of Spirit on Lake, a new, 46-unit affordable rental project for LGBT seniors in Minneapolis, a development in which she has been a major participant.
Dean Scarborough (Author, Sexuality, Sex Worker section of Employment chapter; Illustrator) hails from the Bay Area of California, where he is a feminist sex educator and a somatic therapist-in-training.
Toi Scott (Advisor, Race, Ethnicity, and Culture) is a visionary, community organizer, artivist, blogger, and author of Notes from an Afro-Genderqueer, as well as radical, brown, gender/queer plays Genderqueer Files:La Qolectiv@ and Resistencia: Sangre, who is an ordinary superhero working toward racial and gender justice and the eradication of oppression and disparities within the economic, food, and health systems.
Sem (Advisor, Coming Out, Mental Health Chapters) is a queer-identified mental health professional who specializes in working with college students and became aware of the power of gender identity and expression at a young age.
Judy Sennesh (Editing Team; Advisor, Youth) is a member of the board of directors of PFLAGNYC and is the founder and facilitator of the TransParent Project, PFLAGNYC’s fastest growing support group.
Eve Shapiro, PhD (Advisor, US History) is a sociologist whose recent book Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age (Routledge, 2010) examines whether and how new technologies are changing the gendered lives of cisgender and transgender individuals.
Ilana Sherer, MD (Advisor, Our Many Selves, Children) is a pediatrician in the San Francisco Bay Area, founder and assistant medical director of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF, and a charter member of the American Academy of Pediatrics section on LGBT youth.
Jonah A. Siegel, MSW (Central Organizer; Survey Director) is a doctoral student in social work and sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, whose research focuses on deviance and punishment, the spatial distribution of crime, felon disenfranchisement, and poverty and social welfare policy.
Jake Silver (Social Media Intern) is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. His work, noted for its scholarship by the Association for Queer Anthropology, interrogates intimacy at varying levels—from the mundane to the sexual to the political—in order to understand the increasingly strategic uses of sexuality by modern nation-states.
Dena Simmons, MSEd (Research Intern Program Director; Advisor, Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Board Member) is an educator and doctoral candidate in Health Education at Columbia University, Teachers College, whose research centers around teacher preparedness to address bullying. She is particularly interested in health disparities, the experiences of trans people of color in the health care system, the health risks associated with performing masculinity in the school setting, and the effects of educational policy on the health of the nation’s children.
Holiday Simmons, MSW (Author, Our Many Selves) is Director of Community Education and Advocacy at Lambda Legal, a member of the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition, the Solutions Not Punishments Coalition, and the Trans People of Color Coalition, and a lover of nature, soccer, babies, and social justice.
Anneliese Singh, PhD, LPC (Author, Trans Political Leaders) is an associate professor at The University of Georgia, International Section Associate Editor for the Journal of Counseling and Development, and founding member of the Trans Resilience Project and the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition. Her research and advocacy focuses on the resilience of trans people of color and young people.
Michelle Skoor, (Volunteer) is a gender-queer papa person who is still figuring it all out.
Rev. Mykal O’Neal Slack (Advisor, Religion and Spirituality) is ordained clergy with Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) and founder and lead organizer of 4Lyfe Ministries, a collective of activist theologians, ministers, vocalists, preachers, prayer partners, and teachers from all walks of faith and life, as well as the director of Spiritual Outreach for the Trans People of Color Coalition, the only national organization that seeks to promote the social and economic equality of all transgender and gender nonconforming people.
Oliver Slate-Greene (Video Producer) is equally passionate about sight, sound, motion and being transgender - I intend to be intentional in all aspects.
T. Evan Smith (Author, Sex and Gender Development) is associate professor of psychology and director of the women and gender studies program at Elizabethtown College. He is also a long-time volunteer with the Common Roads youth program of the LGBT Center of Central Pennsylvania.
Carey Jean Sojka, MA (Author, Intimate Relationships) is currently a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, and an adjunct instructor in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at Southern Oregon University.
Elizabeth Spergel (Survey intern) is a graduate of Wesleyan University, with a BA in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies.
Jeffrey Spiegel, MD, FACS (Advisor, Surgical Transition) is professor and chief of Facial Plastic Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine, director of Advanced Facial Aesthetics in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, is an internationally renowned surgeon with unique expertise in facial gender-confirming surgery.
Jessica Lina Stirba, JD, MS (Author, Employment; Editing Team; Advisor, Media; Board Member) is an activist and scholar living in Brooklyn with her loving partner and two cats.
Rev. Moonhawk River Stone, MS, LMHC (Advisor, Our Many Selves; Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Aging; Religion and Spirituality; and United States History) is an interfaith minister, psychotherapist, consultant, educator, writer, and keynote speaker in private practice in the Albany, New York area.
Chase Strangio, JD (Advisor, Immigration) is a staff attorney at the ACLU’s LGBT and AIDS Project and is a founding board member of the Lorena Borjas Community Fund.
Rae Strozzo (Art Editing Team) is a transmasculine visual artist, writer, and educator (www.raestrozzo.com).
Susan Stryker, PhD (Advisor, US History) is associate professor of gender and women’s studies and director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona, coeditor of both volumes of The Transgender Studies Reader, and founding coeditor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Melba J. Nicholson Sullivan, PhD (Editing Team; Advisor, Immigration and Mental Health Chapters) is the director of training and a senior staff psychologist with the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture.
Eli Szenes-Strauss (Editing Team)
Jae DK Szeszycki-Truesdell, MA, MPH (Author, Arts and Culture) is a transgender and gay activist with the privilege to have been educated at Purdue University and University of Illinois at Chicago. He lives in Oakland, CA with his husband, Marek, and dog, Zephyr.
Lana Thompson (Advisor, Activism, Politics, and Organizing)
Aubry Threlkeld (Advisor, Disabilities and Deaf Culture) is a doctoral candidate in Human Development and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education whose research looks at how and when young people with dyslexia construct themselves as disabled and how that relates to cultural models of disability.
Elenore Toczynski (Illustrator) is a comic book artist and illustrator living in Philadelphia with a wiggly dog and lots of art supplies, and is working on an ongoing Web comic, a print comic series, and a graphic novel.
Onyinyechukwu Udegbe (Advisor, Disabilities and Deaf Culture).
Katya Ungerman (Art Editing Intern; Editing Team) is a playwright, filmmaker, and blogger who graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in May 2013.
Jeanne Vaccaro (Advisor, Sex and Gender Development, Intimate Relationships) received a PhD in performance studies at New York University, is an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Sexuality Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and writes about transgender performance and queer craft.
Reid Vanderburgh, MA, retired MFT (Author, Coming Out) is a retired therapist based in Portland, Oregon. He now focuses on teaching and writing about trans* issues. Reid began his transition process in 1995.
Jaimie Veale, PhD (Advisor, Sex and Gender Development) is a trans woman currently working on a postdoctoral research fellowship in trans people’s health at the University of British Columbia.
Elias Vitulli (Advisor, US History) is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota whose work examines the history of the incarceration of gender nonconforming and trans people in the United States and has been published in GLQ and Social Justice.
Allison Vogt, LBSW (Advisor, Youth) advocates for LGBT victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, hate crimes, and human trafficking through direct services, advocacy, and education for the Montrose Center in Houston, Texas. Her blog, Ask Allie (www.askallie.org), is popular among teens requesting healthy relationship advice.
Sean Saifa M. Wall (Advisor, Sex and Gender Development) is an intersex activist and board president of Advocates for Informed Choice, an organization that advocates for the civil rights of children born with variations of reproductive or sexual anatomy. Saifa is currently living in Atlanta’s West End.
Pau Crego Walters (Advisor, General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health; Mental Health Chapters; and Activism, Politics, and Organizing) is a social worker serving homeless youth in San Francisco, an independent activist/scholar within trans health politics, and member of the coordination team of the International Campaign Stop Trans Pathologization (STP).
Syrus Marcus Ware (Author, Disabilities and Deaf Culture) is a black, trans, and disabled visual artist, researcher, activist, and identical twin. His past projects include co-creating Primed: The Backpocket Guide for Trans Guys and the Guys Who Dig ‘Em and coauthoring How Disability Studies Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays. Syrus is a PhD candidate at York University, focusing on disability arts practice.
Adrien A. Weibgen (Advisor, Social Transition; Volunteer) is a racial justice advocate, queer organizer, and 2014 graduate of Yale Law School who is pursuing a career working with and for communities of color in New York.
Linda Wesp, MSN, FNP-C, AAHIVS (Editing Team; Health and Wellness Editor) is a nurse practitioner providing primary care and research opportunities to LGBTQ and HIV-positive adolescents in the Bronx, and a local and national educator on transgender health.
Christopher White, PhD (Advisor, Sexuality) is a consultant in sexual health and sexuality education with over 20 years of experience and specializes in meeting the needs of the LGBT community.
Fresh! White, CPCC (Author, Our Many Selves) is a Mindfulness Coach and founder of Affirmative Acts Coaching, writer, LGBTQQI activist and conversation facilitator, Buddhist practitioner, supporter of trans* employment at the Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative, inclusion enthusiast, and lover of life!
Riki Wilchins, MA (Advisor, US History and Activism, Politics, and Organizing) has written three books on gender theory, founded GenderPAC and The Transexual Menace, and been selected by TIME as one of “100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century.”
Willy Wilkinson, MPH (Advisor, Race, Ethnicity, and Culture) (www.willywilkinson.com) is an award-winning writer and public health consultant whose book, Born on the Edge of Race and Gender, is forthcoming.
Arthur Robin Williams, MD, MBE (Central Organizer; Board Vice President) is a psychiatry resident and documentary photographer. His work, My Right Self, a photo documentary exploring issues of identity, perception, and the body, was supported by an Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project Grant.
Cristan Williams (Advisor, US History) is a pioneering trans activist and historian, the founder of the Houston Transgender Center and Archives, and the executive director of the Transgender Foundation of America.
Andre Wilson, MS (Advisor, General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health) is a health policy consultant specializing in transgender health and eliminating discriminatory “trans exclusions” in health benefits plans. Andre is senior associate at Jamison Green and Associates.
Kelley Winters, PhD (Advisor, Mental Health Chapters) is the founder of GID Reform Advocates, a writer and consultant on gender diversity issues in medical and public policy, and a member of the International Advisory Panel for the WPATH Standards of Care, Version 7.
Debby Wisnowski (Editing Team; Advisor, Children) is a mom to a transgender child and cofounder of Stepping Stones, a support group in New York City for gender nonconforming and transgender youth and their families.
Tarynn M. Witten, PhD, LCSW, FGSA (Author, Aging) is a fellow and recipient of the Inaugural Nathan W. and Margaret Shock New Investigator Research Award of the Gerontological Society of America; associate professor of Biological Complexity, Emergency Medicine, and Gerontology; an adjunct associate professor of Social Work and Women and Gender Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University; a member of the consulting consortium of the Healthy People 2010 Project; and founder and director of the Transgender Longitudinal Aging Research Study.
Kai Yohman (Advisor, Social Transition)
Kortney Ryan Ziegler (Author, Race, Ethnicity, and Culture) is an Oakland-based award-winning artist and writer, the director of the film STILL BLACK: A Portrait of Black Transmen, and the first person to hold a PhD in African American studies from Northwestern University.
Quito Ziegler (Advisor, Arts and Culture) is an artist, activist, curator, and producer who divides their time between Brooklyn and Vermont. They have produced exhibitions for the Open Society Foundations, taught at the International Center of Photography, curated shows with Visual AIDS and the MIX Festival, and organized a wide range of community-based art projects.