7th Annual Transgender Lives: The Intersection of Health and Law Conference

7th Annual Transgender Lives Conference
April 27, 2013
UCONN Health Center
www.transgenderlives.org

A conference about relationships - relationships with ourselves and relationships with those who interact with us. It is about re-defining these relationship through knowledge and understanding and by helping to erase those misconceptions that have disempowered so many for so long.  The conference is also about community - and not just trans and gender non-conforming people but also our allies who support us, the professionals who work with us, our families who care for us, and most-especially you.

The primary theme “Intersection of Health and Law” seeks to raise awareness of the interconnectivity and interdependence of two critical areas to the lives of the trans and gender non-conforming individual.

Keynote speaker:
Mara  Keisling, the Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender  Equality.

Mara Keisling is the founding Executive Director of the National Center  for Transgender Equality.  Mara is a transgender-identified
woman and a  parent.  As one of the nation’s leading voices for transgender equality, Mara has appeared on news outlets such as CNN and CSPAN, and is regularly quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post and hundreds of other national and local print and electronic media.

Since NCTE was founded in 2003, the organization was part of coalition efforts that have won significant advances in transgender equality such as the  passage of the first ever transgender-inclusive federal legislation,  modification of the State Department rules for changing gender markers  on passports, and the historic first Congressional Hearing on  transgender issues.

Mara is a graduate of Penn State University  and did her graduate work at Harvard University in American Government.  She has served on the board of Directors of Common Roads, an LGBTQ Youth Group, and on the steering committee of the Statewide
Pennsylvania  Rights Coalition. Mara has almost twenty-five years of professional  experience in social marketing and opinion
research.

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