Juno Obedin-Maliver, MD, MPH, MAS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Juno graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine in 2010. While at Stanford, Juno maintained a focus on promoting social justice in medicine. Juno was honored with The Kaiser Permanente eQuality Scholarship for service to the LGBTQ community as well as the Markowski Leach Memorial Scholarship for LGBT Activism & Leadership.

Combined with a strong focus on women’s health, Juno continued her dedication to advancing LGBT health initiatives while completing her clinical residency in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2014 and a Fellowship in Women’s Health and Clinical Research at San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center in 2016.

While at UCSF, she has been honored with the San Francisco General Hospital Julius R. Krevans Award for Community Service and The UCSF Chancellor’s Award for GLBT Leadership. During her residency, Juno was active in health policy to expand reproductive possibilities in California and in efforts to remove national Medicare Non-Coverage Determination ruling on “transsexual surgery.” She is also on the Medical Advisory Board of the UCSF Center of Excellence for Transgender Health.

Juno is enthusiastically combining her interests in research, advocacy, and medicine to design and conduct The PRIDE Study and expand community engagement with research through PRIDEnet. Additional clinical, research, and advocacy activities include the gynecological and obstetrical health of transgender men and women and the health of veterans.

Zubin Dastur, MS, MPH is the LGBTQ Digital Clinical Research Manager of The PRIDE Study in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Zubin joins PRIDE with 14 years of clinical research management experience. He is honored and humbled to be part of such an impactful and important endeavor to help underrepresented, underreported, and underserved LGBTQ populations that have been historically known to be stigmatized, ostracized, and victimized.

Zubin believes in promoting health and wellbeing through cutting-edge, evidence-based empirical research. At Columbia School of Social Work, he worked with disenfranchised and low-income families by implementing socially-driven prevention trials in New York. At Weill Cornell Medicine, he helped introduce survey technology in HIV/AIDS community-based hospital clinics in Queens and the Bronx. He managed multiple therapeutic trials that offered innovative therapies for all subtypes of breast cancer at Yale School of Medicine (Comprehensive Cancer Center) and Yale-New Haven Hospital. He has also managed multi-million-dollar NIH/NCI-funded, pharmaceutical-sponsored, and investigator-initiated trials at New York University (Cardiology) and University of Hawaii (Oncology). Zubin has been trained in providing culturally-responsive care for transgender and gender non-binary communities at Harvard School of Medicine.

Zubin earned a Master of Science (MS) degree in Health Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Alabama Birmingham. He hopes to get his PhD in LGBTQ Studies in the future to reduce healthcare inequities and health disparities among sexual, gender, and racial minority and marginalized populations.

In his spare time, Zubin loves to lounge on a beach, try different cuisines, travel to Paris, and incessantly watch British comedies. He comes to Stanford from Kaiser Permanente Hawai’i where he learned the importance of Social Work, and hopes to spread the Hawaiian principles of aloha (love), mahalo (thankfulness), and ho’ihi (respect).

Haley Hedlin, PhD is a biostatistician in the Quantitative Sciences Unit in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. She completed her PhD in Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In her work, she has contributed to medicine and public health research on women's health, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, and data safety monitoring.

Carolyn Hunt, MPA is fascinated with developing ways to help diverse groups of people connect, address power imbalances, problem-solve, and take positive action together.

She has worked in community collaborative research settings for more than 20 years, starting at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), moving to non-profits, and ultimately landing at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She has managed projects in LGBTQ smoking cessation and alcohol and drug treatment and prevention and HIV/AIDS prevention.

Carolyn’s academic background includes Ethnic Studies and public and non-profit management. She has received national fellowships in African American Studies and public management as well as awards for her LGBT activism.

Carolyn is thrilled to serve as Community Engagement Director for PRIDEnet.

Anthony Pho, PhD, MPH, ANP-C, is an adult nurse practitioner with over 12 years of clinical experience and a passion for promoting the health of LGBTQ people through his clinical practice, teaching, and research. He has held an adjunct faculty appointment at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing since 2013. Most recently he practiced as a per-diem medical provider at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in NYC. Prior to this, he was a full-time primary care provider at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he developed and taught an LGBTQ health curriculum for medicine residents that was later expanded to the primary care clerkship. He began his clinical career as a registered nurse in emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Anthony’s doctoral research explored online health information seeking behavior, eHealth literacy, and human papillomavirus vaccination among transgender and gender expansive people. He earned his BA from U.C. Berkeley, BSN, MSN and MPH degrees from Johns Hopkins University, and PhD from Columbia University. In recognition of his leadership he was named a Robert Wood Johnson Future of Nursing Scholar, Johns Hopkins Daniels Interprofessional Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Leadership Fellow, and Columbia University Diversity Fellow. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the LGBT Health Workforce Conference and the Board of Directors of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality. Prior to his career in nursing, Anthony worked for 12 years in the software industry in a variety of product and engineering management positions.

Ana Rescate, MBA believes that all people have a right to be themselves without fear, and this is what has driven her to work in various communications roles throughout her career. She strongly believes that each of us deserves to tell our own stories. As a queer WOC, she recognizes that her voice is her power and does what she can to empower others to use theirs.

In her free time she volunteers on the leadership council team for Somos Familia, an organization founded by two moms from the East Bay, who wanted to create support and acceptance for Latina/o/x lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning youth and their families. Last year, she was also selected to be part of Equality California’s 2019 Leadership Academy in Northern California.

In the past, she’s been a board of director and film programmer for FilmOut San Diego, a wish grantor for Make-A-Wish, and a tutor for dual language students. She was also chosen to be part of the NASA Social team during one of SpaceX’s space station resupply missions in 2015.

Ana is excited to bring the lessons learned from these diverse experiences to the team as a LGBTQ Communications Specialist. Ana holds an MBA in marketing from Baker College and a BFA in Film & Television from New York University.

Kate Vitale, PhD is a biostatistician in the Quantitative Sciences Unit (QSU) in Stanford University’s Department of Medicine. She has a background in basic sciences, having completed a BS in Biology at McGill University and a PhD in Neuroscience at UCSF. After working for a few years as scientist in the biotechnology sector, Kate pivoted to a career in data science and retrained in quantitative methods prior to joining the QSU.

Kate is very excited to be involved in the PRIDE study. Her research interests include public health, health care service improvement, participant behavior, and observational data.

Loree Cook-Daniels, FORGE’s Policy and Program Director, has helped design and co-facilitate FORGE’s multiple in-person and virtual support groups, research studies, and programs since 2000. She has been involved in advocacy, research, training, and services for LGBT populations since 1975, and is nationally-known for her writing, training, and policy work on LGBT aging, trauma and trauma recovery, and transgender issues. She co-chairs the Policy Committee of the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs and serves on the National LGBT Aging Roundtable. Cook-Daniels holds a B.A. in women’s studies and history, an M.S. in conflict management, and a post-graduate Certificate in trauma counseling.

Richard E. Greene is an Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Greene serves as the Faculty Director of Health Disparities Education at NYU School of Medicine through the Office of Diversity Affairs, and in this role oversees the inclusion of Bias, Diversity, Health Disparities, and LGBTQ topics into the culture and curriculum of NYU’s medical center and educational programs. An active and passionate medical educator, Dr. Greene is also an Associate Program Director of the Primary Care Residency Program and presents extensively on many Primary Care topics including the musculoskeletal physical exam, foundations of primary care medicine and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender healthcare disparities. He also serves as an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine/Primary Care Residency Program where he teaches on general primary care topics, musculoskeletal medicine, bias, and health disparities. Dr. Greene is the Medical Director for the Pride Health Center at NYC H+H/Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Greene also lectures on a national scale on the topic of LGBTQ Health Care Disparities and Transgender Health. Dr. Greene serves as the Medical Director of the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) through NYU’s Global Institute of Public Health. He also serves on the Board of Directors of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality.

Porsha Hall is the Program Manager for Health and Wellness at Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders (SAGE), where she oversees and evaluates the health management, exercise, and nutrition programming for the organization's five senior centers located throughout New York City. At SAGE, she also assisted with the evaluation of the nation’s first federally-funded National Resource Center on LGBT Aging. She has worked in the fields of aging and health education for over a decade, conducting gerontological health research in academic institutions, providing case management to homebound older adults, and working as a fitness consultant for community-dwelling retirees. She holds an MPH in Community Health Education from Hunter College and an MA in Gerontology from Georgia State University.

Leveraging decades of experience, Shalonda Ingram is an innovator who embodies the mantra: Strategize. Design. Produce. 
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Shalonda is committed to cultivating collective consciousness and empowering communities to take actions that transform their circumstances. Shalonda has deployed worldwide to produce transformative experiences with artists, activists, and changemakers. Native to grassroots activism, Shalonda serves social justice, spiritual, and corporate organizations to explore network effect and elevate opportunities for resource sharing. Shalonda influences existing structures to create collaborative environments for communities to thrive. Shalonda is honored to serve Queer+ Communities in the areas of arts presenting, wellness research, placemaking and enterprise development.

Gabe is a doctoral student in Population Health Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include mental health and substance use among LGBTQ youth, and the primary prevention of sexual and dating violence in teens and young adults. Previously, Gabe was Senior Research Manager at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, where his publications included Supporting & Caring For Transgender Children, a guide co-published with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians; and Preventing Substance Use Among LGBTQ Teens, co-published with the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. He holds a BA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Yale University.

Tonia Poteat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a joint appointment in the Department of International Health. Her research, teaching, and practice focus on HIV and LGBT health with particular attention to transgender health. She completed her doctoral dissertation on stigma, HIV risk, and access to health care for transgender adults, co-authored a global meta-analysis examining the burden of HIV among transgender women worldwide, and is lead author of a comprehensive review of HIV among transgender sex workers in The Lancet HIV and Sex Workers series. In addition to her academic work, she provides medical care for people living with HIV at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Poteat graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology in 1991 and received a Masters of Medical Science from Emory University’s Physician Assistant (PA) Program in 1995. She earned a Masters of Public Health from Rollins School of Public Health in 2007 and completed a PhD in the Social and Behavioral Interventions Program in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 2012. During her 20 years as a PA, she has devoted her practice to providing medically appropriate and culturally competent care to members of the LGBT community as well as people living with HIV. Dr. Poteat is a certified HIV Specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine; and she has provided primary care for trans-identified individuals since 1996.

Ramón Ramirez has been working with the community for over 25 years in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Ramón has worked with many communities such as: monolingual Spanish speaking, LGBTQI, African American, Transgender, homeless, drug user and other. With a long experience as an HIV testing and prevention counselor, clinical health educator, entertainer and activist in the community, Ramón has been able to experience firsthand the disparities these communities experience from both sides of the spectrum. Ramón works for a large medical provider company as a Clinical Health Educator helping patients by providing education on safer sex, PrEP, weight management, diabetes diagnosis and healthy habits among other topics. Ramón wants to bring to the table experience living as a gay Mexican American and active community member.

Javier Ríos was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is a New Mexican of diverse Irish, Mexican, and LGBTQ background. Javier joined UNM Truman Health Services in the Manzano School Based Health Center as the Health Educator in October 2016, bringing 11 years of non-profit and government experience focused in health equity, HIV/AIDS prevention, harm reduction, immigrant health, and cultural humility. In 2017 and 2013 Javier participated in the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission program Líderes a través de las Fronteras/Leaders across Borders addressing binational and border health. Since 2005 Javier has worked in HIV/AIDS prevention with LGBTQ+ communities of color focusing in community organizing, outreach, and education. His community recognitions include the 2013 Pride and Equality Vincent R. Johnson Models of Hope Award, the 2012 NMCPAG Kahlo Benavidez Leadership Award, and service as a 2012 HIV/AIDS Embajador/Ambassador for the National Latino AIDS Action Network at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. Currently Javier is the Communications Chair of the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities Region VI Southwest RHEC, as well as the co-chair for the Immigrant Committee of the City of Santa Fe. Javier earned his M.A. in Spanish: Southwest Studies from the University of New Mexico in 2005 where he taught Spanish as a Heritage Language. Javier received his B.A. from Creighton University in 2001. Javier is excited to be a part of The PRIDE Study team that cultivates health awareness of our diverse LGBTQ+ communities.

Mr. Lumry is presently being clocked at age 60+. He is a gay man and recent widow. He and his husband have maintained good and honest relationships with their health care providers, from physical therapists to primary care physicians, and all providers in between. Mr. Lumry brings a passion for making more resources workable for our LGBTQ+ members and their families who live in rural communities.

Daryl Mangosing, MPH is currently a graduate student in the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program at the University of California Berkeley (UCB), School of Public Health (SPH). Within the SPH Community, they serve as a Graduate Recruitment and Diversity Service (GRADS) Ambassador for the DREAM (Diversity Respect Equity Action Multiculturalism) Office and remain active with Queering Public Health, a space dedicated to fostering community for those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, and allies in SPH. 

They are also a member of the UCB Pilipinx American Graduate Student Association or PAGaSA. Prior, they have worked for over three and a half years at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies and Prevention Research Center in the Division of Prevention Science at the University of California San Francisco, where they drove communication efforts and disseminated HIV prevention and public health research. 

As a queer Filipino-American born and raised on the island of Guam, they pursued an independent major in health sciences at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky with a full-tuition scholarship in 2013. Afterwards, they attended Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated in 2015 with an MPH, concentrating in health communication. Daryl’s research interests lie within the intersection of LGBTQ health disparities, identity and intersectionality, community engagement, and public health discourse. For their doctoral studies, Daryl is interested in critically studying “party and play” or chemsex behaviors as subculture (i.e., illicit drug use to facilitate and enhance sexual activity) among gay and bisexual men and their health outcomes in the context of biomedical HIV prevention and online sexual networking applications.

Raisa S. Negrón earned a BA in Psychology from Eastern Connecticut State University. She has spent the majority of her career as a sexuality educator teaching and improving the sexual health needs of many individuals working with non-profits, private sector and as a consultant. With 20 years of experience, Raisa shares that body image, sexual expression, including our overall health are inter- connected and an integral part of who we are. Acknowledging our individual culture plays a role, too. When these are in alignment, and we have un-learned negative behaviors, we begin to feel more satisfaction with our bodies and ourselves. Raisa currently works in HIV prevention, specifically adolescent health, LGBTQ* youth, along with persons struggling with tobacco, alcohol, other substance misuse to improve their health outcomes. Raisa speaks Spanish, is a qualified medical interpreter and trainer in the healthcare industry.

Nancy VanReece is the first openly out lesbian elected to a legislative body in the State of Tennessee. She is the Nashville and Davidson County Metro Councilmember responsible for surging popularity and citizen activism in District 8, which includes parts of North Inglewood, Maplewood, and Madison. She served as Chair of the Convention, Tourism Committee and is now Vice-Chair of the Parks, Libraries & Arts Committee. She is an At-Large Board Member of the National League of Cities Local Officials constituency group and was appointed by the Mayor's Office onto the Metro Nashville Diversity Advisory Council.

The Victory Institute says this: "Each day since Council Member VanReece has been a tireless champion for the people of Nashville’s 8th District – laser-focused on bringing regional investments and opportunity to her constituents."

Hon. Nancy VanReece is also the Vice President of Business Development at Batch Nashville, LLC.—a brand builder and advocate that concentrates on client experience—and is a national speaker on issues such as online marketing, social media communications, and branding. In 2015 she was added as a speaker to the State Department's Bureau of International Information Programs.

VanReece was also a trailblazer for more than 25 years in the music business and was the 2017 recipient for the Stein Award for Public Leadership in the Arts, awarded by the Nashville Arts Coalition.. She served as the Executive Director/CEO of The Nashville Shakespeare Festival from 2007-2009; the first Senior Director of Partnership Development at Cool People Care, Inc.; and as a strategist for GivingMatters.com, and the Nashville Library Foundation. She was the first new media consultant on record for the Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee.

SaVanna Wanzer has been a DC Trans advocate, HIV educator, and community volunteer for more than 25 years.  As the founder of Capital Trans Pride in 2007, she later started May Is?  All About Trans in 2018, a series of events celebrating, featuring, and loving transgender people. Designed to educate and build bridges across all communities, SaVanna has grown her vision to include organizations and individuals from across the country. During her many years of service, SaVanna was the first transgender woman to serve on the boards of Whitman-Walker Health and the Capital Pride Alliance. She has also served on the DC Mayor’s LGBTQ Advisory Committee, and started and maintained multiple peer mentoring programs. An active CAP member for NMAC & DCCFAR.  Among her many awards, 2019 she was one of Leon Harris’ NBC 4 Heroes and TAGG Magazine, she was recognized with DC’s Black Pride Unsung Hero Award in 2017, Whitman-Walker Legal’s Robert Fenner Urquhart Memorial Award in 2015, and Capital Pride’s Hero Award in 2008.  Retired from the federal government, SaVanna remains very active in her community and at Westminster Presbyterian Church in DC.  Her future goal to take May Is? “All About Trans” National level.

Lou Weaver is a queer transgender man and a leader in Houston’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. Lou is a sought-after speaker on transgender topics across Texas. With trans healthcare as a key component of his advocacy portfolio, he has helped educate healthcare providers and medical student groups on culturally competent care for the LGBTQ communities. Lou is an engaging and thoughtful facilitator of tough, personal conversations on sexual and gender minorities.

Matthew (Matt) Capriotti, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at San Jose State University and a Research Associate in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Matt earned his doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and he completed pre-doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships at UCSF. Matt studies factors that promote resilience and wellbeing among sexual and gender minority people, with an emphasis on youth and young adults. He has a particular research interest in engaging young adults in evidence-based approaches to HIV prevention and treatment, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Matt also maintains an active line of research on the development, testing, and implementation of evidence-based behavioral interventions for young people with tic disorders (e.g., Tourette syndrome), other obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Matt is thrilled to be a part of The PRIDE Study's efforts to identify and end health disparities faced by sexual and gender minority communities.

Dave Glidden is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco with over 20 years of collaborations with investigators in HIV Treatment, HIV Prevention, Pediatrics and Neurology.

Mark Pletcher, MD, MPH is a Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). As an epidemiologist and a general internal medicine physician, his research is designed to inform clinical decision-making and policy. This work focuses on prevention of cardiovascular disease with particular interests in early life causes of atherosclerosis, primordial and primary coronary heart disease and stroke prevention, clinical decision-making regarding use of preventive medications (statins and anti-hypertensives), and screening for subclinical cardiovascular disease. He serves as a principal investigator for the Health eHeart Study, an online technology-enabled cardiovascular cohort study. Dr. Pletcher has specific expertise in study design, decision and cost-effectiveness analysis, risk prediction, and evaluating the clinical utility of biomarkers. He utilizes this expertise in his leading role with UCSF’s nationally recognized clinical research training programs by teaching clinical research methods as well mentoring students, fellows, and junior faculty members.

Daniel Beltre is a medical student at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in Brooklyn, New York. Daniel has a vibrant set of interests that involve the intersection of identity and healthcare. In medical school Daniel is committed to remodeling the curriculum to better represent sexual and gender minorities and is currently involved with the Brooklyn Free Health Clinic’s RISE program to provide psychosocially competent HIV and HCV counseling. Prior to medical school Daniel was involved with the MSF HIV and TB Policy Access Campaign. Daniel is very excited to be a part of The PRIDE Study and work towards broadening the clinical and cultural understanding of our LGBTQ+ community.

Hannah Bosley is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at UC Berkeley. Hannah’s doctoral research aims to identify how an individual’s unique emotional patterns may relate to their experience of mental health or behavioral problems, by building person-specific statistical models to answer questions like: what emotions does an individual most need to regulate? How do we know when a particular emotion state will occur? What leads to change in these emotion states over time? Person-specific modeling can be particularly helpful in understanding the unique needs of minority communities that tend to be underrepresented in large population-based averages. Hannah is particularly passionate about applying these methods to better understand and serve the mental health needs of sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals. Hannah also works as a clinical interventionist with Dr. Annesa Flentje’s research team at UCSF, delivering a psychotherapeutic intervention designed to reduce minority stress and improve mental health in SGM individuals.

Janessa Broussard, MSN, RN, AGNP-C is a Doctoral Student in the Community Health Systems Department of the UCSF School of Nursing. Currently she practices in a clinic specializing in sexual health and HIV care. She works primarily with members of the LGBTQ+, homeless, and persons who inject drugs (PWID) communities. Her primary interest is creating and promoting inclusive, low-barrier access models of care.  Lack of research to guide care of sexual and gender minority (SGM) communities motivated her to pursue a PhD. Her goal is to contribute to research focused on developing evidence based guidelines for SGM individuals. Additionally, she plans to develop curriculum focused on inclusive, affirming care and to continue to educate other medical professionals in this area.

Kristen Drew Clark is a PhD Candidate in Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. Her doctoral research is centered on the structural barriers to health care access, health care experiences, and symptom experiences of transgender and gender expansive people in the United States. Her doctoral work is funded through a National Institute for Nursing Research pre-doctoral fellowship (F31).  
Prior to pursuing her PhD, Kristen worked clinically as a nurse in inpatient mental health, specializing in crisis stabilization care. In this capacity she worked to advocate for more inclusive and knowledgeable mental health care for transgender people through improved hospital policies and increasing education in Florida nursing schools.

O. Winslow Edwards is a Master’s of Public Health student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC in the Social Inequities and Health concentration. Their research is focused on using strengths-based methodologies to explore community resilience for sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations, with particular attention to amplifying voices within the community that have been historically marginalized. Prior to starting their MPH, Winslow worked as a clinical research coordinator on HPV studies with people living with HIV in Louisiana. They were also involved in grassroots level organizing surrounding systemic racial inequities and SGM rights. In their free time, Winslow volunteers with SGM community organizations that are engaged in decreasing stigma towards HIV and Hepatitis C, as well as using harm-reduction approaches to sexual health and drug use.

Shane Lamba is a Health Science Specialist in the Spinal Cord Injuries and Disorders (SCI/D) Center at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System. He works on a multidisciplinary team, where he serves as one of the exoskeleton trainers collecting data on how its usage with Veterans can help improve quality of life for those living with a SCI. Additionally, he has brought to his team at the SCI center, a rejuvenated need for LGBT centered health research, he is diligently working alongside collaborators in applying for funding to initiate qualitative research on topics related to health equity and disability.

He also serves as a member on the Cultural Competency committee for the VA SCI/D Center, working alongside clinicians to bring diversity and inclusion trainings regarding LGBT Veterans. Shane will be enrolled in the Fall as a Master's of Public Health graduate student at the University of New England, where he intends to focus on community health promotion and education. He is a Bay Area native, and enjoys being active outdoors and relaxing at the beach. Shane is super excited to be a part of The PRIDE Study, as he believes it will help broaden his skill sets working with community engaged research methodology and health equity.

Sean Luong, BA, RN is a Master’s Student in the School of Nursing at UCSF, working on their training as an Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist. In a past life, Sean graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor’s in Sociology, focused primarily on areas of gender, sexuality, and race. Coming into the world of nursing, Sean strives to apply a critical lens to the obstacles within systems and institutions that LGBT patients have to navigate in order to meet their health needs, especially trans folk and folks of color.
 
Motivated in shifting the focus of healthcare towards patients from marginalized groups, Sean hopes to re-envision the way care is accessed and provided to those who need it the most, and yet do not receive necessary care. Sean is happy to have the opportunity to be working with The PRIDE Study in highlighting issues that LGBT queer people face when trying to receive the health care they deserve. Sean is grateful for the work already done and that which continues to be done by those beside them.

Daryl Mangosing, MPH is currently a graduate student in the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program at the University of California Berkeley (UCB), School of Public Health (SPH). Within the SPH Community, they serve as a Graduate Recruitment and Diversity Service (GRADS) Ambassador for the DREAM (Diversity Respect Equity Action Multiculturalism) Office and remain active with Queering Public Health, a space dedicated to fostering community for those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, and allies in SPH.

They are also a member of the UCB Pilipinx American Graduate Student Association or PAGaSA. Prior, they have worked for over three and a half years at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies and Prevention Research Center in the Division of Prevention Science at the University of California San Francisco, where they drove communication efforts and disseminated HIV prevention and public health research.

As a queer Filipino-American born and raised on the island of Guam, they pursued an independent major in health sciences at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky with a full-tuition scholarship in 2013. Afterwards, they attended Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated in 2015 with an MPH, concentrating in health communication. Daryl’s research interests lie within the intersection of LGBTQ health disparities, identity and intersectionality, community engagement, and public health discourse. For their doctoral studies, Daryl is interested in critically studying “party and play” or chemsex behaviors as subculture (i.e., illicit drug use to facilitate and enhance sexual activity) among gay and bisexual men and their health outcomes in the context of biomedical HIV prevention and online sexual networking applications.

 

 

Sawye Raygani is an undergraduate student at Stanford University majoring in Human Biology and minoring in Psychology. She joined The PRIDE Study to better understand how social and cultural determinants of health impact mental health in sexual and gender minority populations and how to promote inclusivity in healthcare practices. On campus, she's involved in infectious disease and microbiome research and volunteers at Arbor Free Clinic as a Bridge to Care Counselor. In the future, she hopes to work at the intersection of public health and clinical medicine and contribute to meaningful research regarding marginalized communities in the healthcare system.

Ava Snow is an undergraduate student at Stanford studying Human Biology. She is from Bozeman, Montana, and began exploring her interest in LGBTQ+ health as a peer educator for a local sexual and reproductive healthcare clinic when she was in high school. On campus, she volunteers as a counselor at the Sexual Health Peer Resource Center, and as a Patient Health Navigator at Pacific Free Clinic. She is so excited to work with and learn from all of the incredible people who are involved with the Pride Study!

Leslie Suen, MD is an Internal Medicine Resident in the UC Primary Care track at UCSF. Prior to medical school, she worked for the San Francisco Department of Public Health and Tom Waddell Urban Health Clinic focusing on quality improvement projects for homeless, HIV-positive, and LGBTQ populations. Her research interests include improving health care systems and delivery for underserved urban populations, as well as finding the best public rooftop park in the city. As a native San Franciscan, she is very excited to be a part of The PRIDE Study and is proud to have it jump start in her hometown.

Michael Trujillo, PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry. Michael completed their PhD in Health Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently completing a T32 postdoctoral fellowship in Psychology and Medicine investigating the physiological underpinnings of sexual prejudice and its impact on health. Their research is driven by models that view stigma as a fundamental cause of health disparities and examines the social-cognitive, affective, biological, and behavioral factors that underlie the association between stigma and health. As a Graduate Research Fellow of the National Science Foundation, they examined how anti-gay harassment impacted risk-taking and the role of internalized stigma. Michael is also interested in identifying collective and personal strengths that promote resilience that allow individuals to thrive in the face of stigma. They are thrilled to be a part of The PRIDE Study as a means to end health disparities faced by sexual and gender minorities.

Rose Wong is an MD student at Stanford Medicine, as well as an advocate for sexual and gender minority (SGM) communities and mental health de-stigmatization: she is a Point Foundation, George Benes Scholarship recipient for LGBT leadership in medicine. At the medical school, she currently focuses on creating safer spaces for vulnerability and honesty in medical education through the arts, teaching, and community-building: she is the founder of Stanford Medicine’s Vital Signs reflection groups, co-president of Stanford Medicine’s Arts Collective (SMAC), an NBIO-206 Neurosciences TA for the Stanford Science of Medicine course, and an Ears-4-Peers peer counselor for her fellow MD/MSPA students. In past lives, she had graduated with highest honors in English from the University of Connecticut Honors Program, and before then was recognized in the New York Times and other mainstream media organizations for her role in shaping admissions policies at Smith and other historical women’s colleges to become inclusive of transgender women. Her journey to medicine has included work in diverse non-profits like GLAAD, the national LGBT media monitoring organization, and SPARK, an intergenerational feminist organization dedicated to empowering women and rewriting heterosexist cultural narratives.

Rose is excited to bring her enthusiasm and dedication to learning to the PRIDE team: as a Medical Scholars grant recipient, she will be characterizing cardiovascular health profiles and risk in SGM communities using the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 cardiovascular health metric. She is professionally interested in clinical research on the long-term health outcomes of SGM people, medical education, as well as the fields of neurology and endocrinology.

Ada is a medical student, writer, and community organizer who is interested in how community-based work incorporating the thoughtful and compassionate practice of medicine has the potential to address the systemic and structural inequities that affect communities decentered by white supremacy and cisheteropatriarchy in the US and abroad. In the past, they have worked extensively to elevate the voices of queer and trans A/API communities, decrease health inequities in the US and in Hong Kong, and research the role of implicit bias in racism. In the coming years, they hope to delve more deeply into research, policy, and organizing work focused on amplifying the experiences of queer and trans people of color around the world.

Matthew (Matta) Zheng is an undergraduate student at Stanford University, double majoring in Anthropology and Political Science with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Prior to Stanford, he attended the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, where he led the campus LGBTQ+ activism group. Today, he is the founding coordinator of a queer interfaith spirituality group at Stanford's Queer Student Resources (QSR) and Office of Religious Life (ORL) while counseling patients and developing a comprehensive LGBTQ+ healthcare system at Pacific Free Clinic. Academically, Matthew's research has focused on the political economy of neoliberalism at Stanford's Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences with Professor Margaret Levi. His interests lie in community health, intertwining social justice and medicine, and in uplifting his queer communities in any way possible. Outside of work, he loves being a drag artist, cooking, and playing the steelpan. In the future, Matthew aspires to complete an MD/MPP with particular emphasis on health policymaking. He joins PRIDELab research after serving a year as the Undergraduate Assistant at The PRIDE Study, and is so excited to work closely in SGM/LGBTQ+ health research.