Trans Bodies, Trans SelvesInterns, Editors, and Advisors
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Arthur Robinson Williams (Rob), M.A. is a medical student and documentary photographer whose work, My Right Self, stories and photographs exploring issues of identity, perception, and the body, was supported by an Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project Grant. Rob has formerly completed projects on drugs and addiction in the United States, HIV/AIDS in Ghana, homosexuality in the Netherlands, the Cuban health system, anthroposophical farming communes in the Northeast and injection drug use in New Jersey. Rob graduated from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs where he focused on domestic health policy. He is currently a fourth-year medical student studying ethics and the arts and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Center for Bioethics. He is beginning a residency in psychiatry. |
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Dena Simmons, (MSEd), is a doctoral student in Health Education at Columbia University, Teachers College. Her research centers around health disparities. She has varied research interests, including the experiences of trans people of color in the healthcare system, the health risks associated with performing masculinity in the school setting, and the effects of educational policy on the health of the nation’s children. She has served as a public health volunteer in Antigua, where she worked with the Directorate of Gender Affairs to provide better health services for Dominican sex workers. Dena has also studied the collaboration between schools and health agencies in efforts to prevent teenage pregnancy with a Fulbright Scholarship in the Dominican Republic. Before her doctoral studies, Dena was a middle school teacher in her hometown, the Bronx, New York. Her goal is to work toward making schools and hospitals safer, inclusive, and healthy environments for all. |
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Jonah A. Siegel, M.S.W., is a doctoral student in the Social Work and Sociology program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Jonah's research focuses broadly on deviance and punishment, the spatial distribution of crime, felon disenfranchisement, and poverty and social welfare policy. Specifically, he is interested in studying the local effects of mass imprisonment in communities with high rates of incarceration. Jonah has devoted time and energy to queer rights issues since his college years; these concerns remain at the forefront of his work both professionally and avocationally. |
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Zeraph Moore is a transgender student in the field of ecology with a passionate interest in being of service to other transgender and genderqueer people. He is the editor of a yearly journal of queer possibility, The Alchemical Postmodern Theorist, as well as an artist exploring androgynous and ambigender themes. He is excited to be participating in the Trans Bodies Trans Selves book as a survey intern, and hopes that this book will open doors for transgender understanding in many fields. |
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Heather Palmer is a sociology student at American University. She has worked on the executive committee of the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference and is now at the American Unviersity GLBTA Resource Center as their Publications and Social Meda Outreach Coordinator. She is very happy to be Trans Bodies, Trans Selves' publicity intern. |
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Pau Crego Walters is a queer dandy who currently resides in San Francisco while working towards becoming a wiser trans scholar and activist. Pau was an organizer for the first march for the declassification of trans identities in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) in Barcelona, Spain, in 2007. He has also been doing outreach, workshops, performances and writing about trans and intersex issues for the past 5 years. He is thrilled to be a survey intern for Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, and has high hopes for the helpful resources that this book will provide for present and future (trans)generations. |
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Christian Escalona, is a transgender law student at Western New
England College School of Law. He has served as both a student
representative and vice-president of his on-campus, GLBTQ alliance,
OUTlaw. He is also a member of the MLGBA Trans Inclusion Committee and
recently externed for MTPC, researching areas of law pertaining to
transgender prisoners in America. He is very excited to serve as the
student intern for Trans Bodies Trans Selves legal chapter.
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