TransAction is celebrating over ten years of being an on-campus force for transgender-centered advocacy and activism at Sarah Lawrence College. Curious about how TransAction all began? Come meet the founders and learn about origin story for the organization. Find out about the battles tackled during the first few years on campus. Learn how the skills developed on campus, fighting the good fight, have translated into the careers of the founders in the merging of their professional lives and their advocacy causes. There will be a panel discussion, an opportunity for question and answers, and time afterwards to mingle.
Panelists
Tobin Berliner graduated in 2008 and achieved the Sadie Lou dream by moving to Brooklyn, taking up residence in a queer community house, and working in an LGBT health center. He earned his Masters in Public Health, with a specialization in queer sexual health, from Columbia University in 2013 and currently runs the Psychotherapy Center for Gender & Sexuality at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in Manhattan. Tobin was probably most well-known during his Sarah Lawrence years for his mohawk, flamingo shoes, and trying to run too many clubs his senior year.
Kit Golan ’08, MA ’09 is a math teacher for America Master Teacher in the New York City public school system and has been since 2010. He teaches 6th and 7th grade math at NYC Lab Middle School for Collaboration focused on crafting experiences for students that create cognitive dissonance to develop their mathematical mindsets. His classroom pedagogy is based on constructivist theory: he allows his students to construct their own understanding and knowledge of math through their mathematical adventures and their reflections. He credits his work with Kanwal Singh at Sarah Lawrence for setting him on this path towards being an educator and Barbara Schecter for his understanding of child development.
Jacklyn Lacey ’10 is Senior Museum Specialist of African and Pacific Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, where she has been a member of the Anthropology Division since 2011. Her interests include exploring the intersections of emerging infectious disease epidemiology, medical anthropology, and post-colonial studies. She partners with medical practitioners describing the methods and politics of syncretic healing traditions in Tanzania, Kenya, Sudan, as well as in Polynesia, the Caribbean, and in American diaspora communities. She credits her work with Drew Cressman at Sarah Lawrence, especially the Virology class he let her take first year, as setting her on the path for anything remotely cool she has done since college.
Sponsored by the Offices of Alumni Relations and Diversity and Campus Engagement. Refreshments served.