Since finishing the MA program, I have been working as a Program Assistant with the Center of Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention (CoE), a collaborative partnership between the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center, and the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.  The CoE’s mission is to provide leadership, capacity building, professional training, policy advocacy, research development, and resources to increase access to culturally competent HIV prevention services for transgender people in California.  I feel that my graduate training has very much prepared me for the work involved in social-science research on this level. 

I continue to collaborate with my colleagues from RISE (Research on Inequality, Sexuality and Education) towards future publications, and have recently begun doing work with local fine arts institutions in San Francisco, such as Frameline’s International LGBT Film Festival, SFC Art Collective and HMBPC.  I am looking forward to becoming more involved in local community organizing and activism, especially around issues of inclusivity for gay men of color in San Francisco, and also as an ally to the trans community, and to youth.