OII's Newest Board Members

Subject: OII's Newest Board Members Wed May 21, 2008 9:13 pm

Dear Members,

I am very honored to introduce OII's two newest board members, Kristen Worley and Y. Gavriel Ansara.

OII-Canada
Kristen Worley is a famous athlete who has worked in many countries in the world with the International Olympic Committee to end discrimination against intersex and trans athletes. She will speak on behalf of OII as spokeswoman against sexism and discrimination. For more information about Kristen Worley:

http://www.intersexualite.org/Kristen_Worley.html

OII-United Kingdom
Y. Gavriel Ansara founded and directed Lifelines Rhode Island, Rhode Island's only advocacy, education, and support organization focused on identifying and meeting the diverse needs of trans, gender spectrum, and intersex/embodiment spectrum individuals from 2006-2008. In July, 2008, he will transition from directorship to the Lifelines Advisory Board. Gavi has 15 years of experience as an activist, outreach worker, and educator on GLB, TGI, sexuality, anti-racist, disability rights, and multicultural issues. From 2001-2008, he founded and coordinated the Tiferet outreach project and served as a Keshet Board Member. Since 2005, he has served on the editorial staff of Developmental Psychology, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Psychological Association. In addition, he served as an invited student reviewer for several manuscripts. He has presented on TGI topics at high schools, colleges, medical schools, clinics, youth programs, religious communities, and conferences. Gavi has designed educational curricula for psychologists, clergy, social workers, youth, educators, and physicians, and served as co-presenter for a Grand Round at Rhode Island Hospital's Hasbro Developmental-Behavioural Pediatrics Division with Drs. Norm Spack and Jody Rich. He will begin postgraduate studies in Social Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK in September, 2008. He co-authored a chapter on gender identity/expression and bullying in Bully-proofing your school: Cultural proficiency (in press) with child psychologist Carla Garrity of the Neuro-Developmental Ctr. (Denver, CO), and he has other publications in preparation. Gavi is a affirmed man of trans experience (designated female at birth), a gay, polycultural immigrant with light-skinned passing privilege, a polyglot, and an Empath. He is also an aspiring literary alchemist, healer, singer-songwriter, avid bookworm, vegetarian in the process of becoming vegan, and advocate against interpersonal violence and trans-species abuse. Gavi is an enthusiast of eco-friendly travel, eco-friendly canal boats, swimming, wilderness hiking, camping, and little seaside cottages.

More information:
http://www.intersexualite.org/Gavi.html
Contact information:
gavriel.ansara@gmail.com
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