Aldita Gallardo is a Latinx trans woman, community organizer, and former youth worker based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, she served as a Senior Program Associate for the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy, and as a board member at El/La Para Translatinas, a community center, public health, and anti-viol...
Ash Stephens is a Black transmasculine anti-criminalization activist and community organizer based in Chicago. At the time of this interview, he was Manager of Policy & Strategy at the Transgender Law Center, a PhD candidate in the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC,) and a board member at th...
De Sube is a white trans woman and activist based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. At the time of this interview, she served as the Chairperson, Director of Client Services, and Treasurer of the Transgender Assistance Program of Virginia, a group she co-founded. She also is a co-founder of the Gender Expression Movement support group, and has decade...
Dr. Colton St. Amand, PhD, MD, LP is a transgenderqueer Two Spirit man, Texas Licensed Clinical Psychologist, and family medicine physician resident with a concentration in gender and sexuality care. St. Amand is affiliated with the University of Houston Department of Psychology and Baylor College of Medicine, is a Family Medicine resident at th...
Jamison Green is a white trans man, trans activist, advocate, public speaker, author, and consultant based in Vancouver, Washington. At the time of this interview, Green worked as a consultant and public speaker on trans issues. An early activist in FTM and transmasculine communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, Green was one of the first memb...
Jay Corprew is a Black trans man, activist, poet, and mentor based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. At the time of this interview, he was the Director of Organizing for the Transgender Assistance Program of Virginia (TAP Virginia,) an organization that provides financial support and community for transgender adults in Virginia. He also solely facili...
Kiyomi Fujikawa is a mixed-race queer trans femme and activist based in Seattle. At the time of this interview, she served as Co-Director of Third Wave Fund, an activist philanthropic organization supporting grassroots, queer and trans youth of color- and women of color-led movements, as well as on the boards of the Groundswell Fund, Funders Con...
Sam Ames is a white transmasculine civil rights attorney, anti-conversion therapy activist, and theologian based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, he was the interim executive director of Our Family Coalition - an organization that advocates for and serves LGBTQ+ youth and families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously, ...
Thalia Hernandez is a white and Latinx non-binary trans woman, trans activist, and advocate based in Richmond, Virginia. At the time of this interview, she was the Program Director at Equality Virginia, the leading LGBTQ advocacy organization in the commonwealth. In this oral history interview, Hernandez discusses her upbringing, experiences of ...