Transgender Rights Ballot Battle: What’s at Stake?
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
1–2:15 p.m. (doors open at 12:30 p.m.)
Hiebert Lounge
72 East Concord Street
Boston
Services for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People Provided
#SPHDSS18
Live-Streaming Available During Event
Cohosted with the Activist Lab.
This November, Massachusetts voters will face the first-ever statewide popular vote on protections for transgender people from discrimination. The referendum would repeal the state law (Bill S.2407) that protects transgender people from discrimination in public places, including restaurants, stores, and doctors’ offices. Both sides of the issue have said that either way, the results will have repercussions across the country. The Activist Lab has invited a panel of experts to discuss how we got here, and what’s at stake.
Speakers
Mason Dunn, Executive Director, Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, and Co-Chair, Freedom for All Massachusetts Campaign
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Mason Dunn (he/him/his) is the executive director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition and co-chair of the Freedom for All Massachusetts campaign. An educator and activist, he has been working across the country for many years on trans rights and advocacy. Dunn is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester, teaching on LGBTQ media and perspectives, and serves on the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth. Prior to joining MTPC, he worked in New Hampshire on trans rights and education. Dunn is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association, a 2012 graduate of the Daniel Webster Honors Scholars Program at the University of New Hampshire, School of Law, and a member of the Massachusetts State Commission on LGBTQ Youth. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his partner, Lauren, backpacking, kayaking, and pursuing his more geeky interests.
Iris Olson, Activist Fellow, Boston University School of Public Health Activist Lab
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Focusing on sex and gender education, Iris Olson (they/them/theirs) works primarily with a broad range of communities. Iris is a current MPH candidate at BUSPH studying Health Communication and Promotion as well as Sex, Sexuality, and Gender. In addition to their masters studies, Iris works as a Health Educator at Harbor Health Services, is the Director of Outreach and Diversity at NELA, is a co-founder of Sexistential Joy, is an E-Board Member of BUSPH’s Queer Alliance, and is the Activist Lab’s Fellow working with Freedom for All Massachusetts’ Yes on 3 campaign.
Jennifer R. Siegel, Medical Director, Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, Boston Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
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Jennifer R. Siegel (she/her/hers) serves as the medical director for the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston Medical Center, and as an assistant professor of general internal medicine in the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. She works as an associate program director for the Boston Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program and directs the residency’s Urban Health and Health Equities Pathway. Siegel has been recognized as an educator with multiple local and regional teaching awards, and has developed curricula on such topics as the health equity/social determinants of health, LGBTQ health, addiction medicine, ambulatory care, and health advocacy. She is the faculty advisor to the resident-led Center for Health Equity at Boston Medical Center and co-led the BU Medical Campus inaugural Health Equity Symposium in 2018. Siegel holds an MD from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency and chief residency at the University of California, San Francisco through the San Francisco General Primary Care Internal Medicine track, and was a chief resident at San Francisco General Hospital.
Moderator
Sophie Godley, Director of Undergraduate Programs and Clinical Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health
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Sophie Godley (she/her/hers) joined the School of Public Health faculty as a clinical assistant professor of public health in July of 2010. She previously was an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Community Health Sciences, where she taught courses on adolescent health and sexual health. Godley has been working in the field of public health since 1993. Her areas of expertise include implementing science-based prevention programs and incorporating popular media into public health education. She served as the deputy director of the AIDS Action Committee in Massachusetts for six years, overseeing prevention and education programs, while offering practicum opportunities to students. Prior to that, she was director of the Office of Adolescent Health and Youth Development at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health from 1999 to 2004. Currently, Godley teaches Introduction to Public Health for undergraduates, and courses in the Maternal and Child Health concentration, including Safer Sex in the City: From Science to Policy, and Women, Children, and Adolescents: Public Health Approaches. Sophie also serves as director of undergraduate education in the School of Public Health, advising students enrolled in the public health minor and the innovative 4+1 program, which combines the BA/MPH and BS/MPH. She received the 2010 Gail Douglas Award for Public Health Practice, presented annually to a practitioner who has made an outstanding contribution to public health in the areas of education, research, and service; the 2011 Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)/Pfizer Early Career in Public Health Teaching Award; the 2017 Metcalf Award, one of the University’s highest awards in teaching; and the 2013 Education Innovation Award. Godley received a BA from Smith College, an MPH from the University of Washington, and a PhD in public health from Boston University.
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