 | Joycelyn Elders
Former U.S. Surgeon General
A Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the University of Arkansas School of Public Health and a Distinguished Professor at the Clinton School of Public Policy, Elders is an expert on childhood sexual development. In 1993, she was appointed by President Clinton to be the 15th Surgeon General of the United States and the first African-American woman to hold that post. |
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 | Nicole Perez
Research Department, Howard Brown Health Center
A U.S.-born Cuban lesbian from Chicago, Perez received her MA from DePaul University. Her research has a focus in Women's & Gender Studies, Latino Studies & Queer Studies. Perez was Principal Investigator of Proyecto Latina, a study assessing the experiences of Latina lesbian, bisexual, queer & transgender women in Chicago. She is Project Coordinator for the TWISTA Program, a peer-led HIV intervention program for transgender women of color. .
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 | Urvashi Vaid
The Arcus Foundation
Widely recognized for her work with national gay rights organizations, Vaid is the author of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay & Lesbian Liberation (Anchor, 1996) and co-editor of Creating Change: Public Policy, Sexuality and Civil Rights. Since 2005, she has served as executive director of the Arcus Foundation, a grant making foundation whose mission is to achieve social justice that is inclusive of sexual orientation, gender identity and race, and to ensure conservation and respect of the great apes.
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 | Ramón Gutiérrez
History Department, The University of Chicago
Gutiérrez is the Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is author of When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford University Press, 1991).
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