Summary: Lately most of the news of trans people has been negative. Murders, violence, harmful and ignorant legislation… It is often hard to remember the great things that members of our community are doing in spite of all of this. So tonight we are going to focus on a member of our community that is not only surviving, but thriving and is helping other transgender and gender non-conforming people to do the same: Tracee McDaniel. Guest Intro - Tracee McDaniel Tracee is a transgender advocate and author motivated by a strong desire to ensure that all transgender and gender non-conforming people also receive Equality, Justice and Human Rights protections. She is the Founder and CEO of the Juxtaposed Center for Transformation in Atlanta, which we are going to be talking about quite a bit tonight. In 2007, Tracee became the first transgender person invited to deliver a key-note speech at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration march and rally, she has lobbied Congress, served on the Atlanta Police Department’s L.G.B.T. Advisory Board, Mayor Reed’s Working Group on Prostitution, is a Vetted Trainer for the US Department of Justice, has several awards to her credit and is currently a Board of Director for Transgender Health and Educational Alliance. Link to Juxtaposed Center- http://www.thejct.org (http://www.thejct.org) Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com
