Facilitating & Training Work

I’ve facilitated freelance professional development trainings since 2015, specializing in guiding educational organizations to better support their gender-creative community members. I have worked for large and small institutions and can custom fit a training to meet the organization’s specific needs. In all of my trainings, I work to normalize that gender creativity is not new, that gender subversive people are sacred, and that our work as adults in education is to resource the next generation.

A few examples of trainings I’ve given:

• “Gender 101”
  A general overview of trans* and gender creative cultural competency (my most requested training - I’ve done this for groups ranging from undergraduate orientation leaders to tenured faculty).

• "Pronouns & Portfolios”
  A training for professional association of college counselors who wanted a PD session on supporting gender creative college students in job searching.

• “Supporting Trans Students on the Spectrum”
  A facilitated half day of training done for a SpEd consulting service, centering on best practices to support gender-creative, autistic students within the confines of public school special education programs.

My general rate is $300/hour, with all prep included.

Queer Youthwork

I’ve advised adolescent students in their Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) group since 2016 and have organized everything from all-ages drag brunch outings to large fundraisers for local queer organizations.

I’ve taught queer summer camp experiences - offering Drag culture and performance camps for adolescents and Gender Creative social camps for young students.

I create curriculum, connect students with resources, and set myself up as a responsibly boundaried adult who wants the next generation of queer youth to have access to life roadmaps and supports.

iRace Advising

I organized logistics and curriculum for Great River’s annual iRace summit, a student-centered conference on race, identity, and culture.

The iRace summit was a pre-pandemic annual conference, rooted in students’ desire for a day of intentional pause and reflection on how issues of cultural identity and marginalization affect our greater communities.

This was a year long project that involved everything from teaching classes on identity to inviting and reviewing dozens of potential workshop facilitators to being responsible for all the day-of logistics of a 800 person conference.

I saw my advising role as an opportunity to support students in thinking deeply about their own identities and about the places where Great River could use its institutional privilege to better support individuals.