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Tiffany Woods from TransVision

Tiffany Woods is the Program Coordinator for TransVision, Tri-City Health Center. She created TransVision along with her Program Manager in 2002. TransVision is the only county funded Transgender Program in Alameda County.
Tiffany Woods from TransVision

Sabrina Suico from Walden House

Sabrina Suico manages and coordinates a Residential Drug Treatment and Mental Health Program for Transgender men and women at Walden House. She has worked with approximately 50 transgender identified clients in the past two years placed in detoxification, short term and long term residential treatment, and out-patient treatment. The Transgender Recovery Program serves mtf/ftm transgender people, providing treatment for substance use and mental health in a residential treatment therapeutic community.
Sabrina Suico from Walden House

Miss Major from TGIJP

Miss Major is a long-time activist in the transgender community. A sculptor, instead of working with clay, she works with people’s minds. Miss Major has worked at many community organizations and public health agencies serving the transgender community, including the Ark of Refuge, Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center, the Santa Clara Department of Public Health AIDS Program, and the San Diego AIDS Foundation. She is currently the Community Organizing Director for the Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project.
Miss Major from TGIJP

Julia Serano

Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, spoken word performer, trans activist, and biologist. Julia is the author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Seal Press, 2007), a collection of personal essays that reveal how misogyny frames popular assumptions about femininity and shapes many of the myths and misconceptions people have about transsexual women.
Julia Serano

El/La Programa para TransLatinas

El-La Programa Para Trans Latinas is based in beautiful San Francisco and was developed to reach out to the TransLatina community in and around the Mission District Neighborhood. We provide services for HIV Prevention, counseling, and referrals to other transgender services. Feel free to call 415-864-7278 for an appointment or email el.latgprogram@yahoo.com
El/La Programa para TransLatinas
El/La at the 2008 Trans March

Davey Shlasko & Clair Fairley from TEEI

Davey Shlasko is a genderqueer/FtM multi-issue educator, author, and activist, and Program Coordinator of the Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative (TEEI). As a consultant and trainer with Think Again Training, Davey helps individuals and organizations to develop cultural competence and work effectively for positive change. Davey is passionate about removing barriers so that everybody can exercise self-determination of their gender, their bodies, their work and their lives. Clair Farley is a genderqueer/MtF community leader, trans-mentor, activist, and Economic Development Coordinator of the nations first Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative (TEEI) at the Center. Clair is active locally and national advocating for public policy, programs, and educational tools that address the barriers faced by LGBTQQ youth and transgender people. She serves on the Board of Directors of LYRIC and on the Board of the nation’s first GLBTQ Online High School. She hopes to inspire community by expanding networks and by matching fabulous people with sustainable job in safe workplaces.
Davey Shlasko
Davey Shlasko & Clair Fairley from TEEI

Cecilia Chung, Chair of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission

Cecilia Chung, former Deputy Director of Transgender Law Center, is an immigrant from Hong Kong and has been a San Francisco resident since 1985. Cecilia attended City College of San Francisco and was later transferred to Golden Gate University in 1987 where she pursued her undergraduate studies in International Management.Cecilia worked as court interpreter for the Santa Clara County until 1992 and began her active involvement with the transgender community shortly after.
Cecilia Chung, Chair of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission

Andrea James from Transsexual Roadmap

Andrea James has spent her career crafting communication that makes a difference, and now she's applying her expertise in Hollywood. After graduating with a Master’s Degree in English from University of Chicago, she wrote ads for ten years at top Chicago agencies. Her ads for blue-chip clients premiered on the Super Bowl and other major television events and were frequently among audience favorites. She has also created free websites for consumers considered among the best in their categories.
Andrea James from Transsexual Roadmap

Alexis Rivera from the Transgender Law Center

Alexis Rivera, a proud queer trans-identified woman, was born and raised in Los Angeles. Alexis has been involved in the Transgender community for the past 12 years. She has participated as a Commissioner for the Los Angeles County Commission on HIV/AIDS; was on the founding board of the Female-to-Male Alliance of Los Angeles; and, for the past 5 years, chaired the Transgender Service Provider Network. Alexis is an Alpha member of the League of Trans Unified Sisters (LOTUS).
Alexis Rivera from the Transgender Law Center
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