Selected Trainings & Workshops for Adults

• “Working with LGBTQIA+ Youth in School” – 1.5 – 3 hour training
  • St. Regis Falls Central School (K-12), January 12, 2018
  • Keene Central School District (7-12), February 15, 2017
  • Berkshire Country Day School (PreK-8), January 11-12, 2017
  • Sharon Springs Central School District (K-12), October 7, 2016
  • Willsboro Central School District (K-12), September 1, 2016
• “Supporting Trans & Gender Nonconforming Students” – 1.5 hour – 1/2 day training
  • Cairo-Durham School District (6-12), October 4, 2017
  • Chazy Rural School District (7-12), October 4, 2016
  • Beekmantown Central School District (7-12), September 7, 2016
  • Chateaugay Central School District (7-12), September 2, 2016
• “101: Understanding Gender & Sexuality in Schools” – Full day training
  • Champlain Valley Educational Services (BOCES), March 2, 2017
  • Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES, May 23, 2016
  • Champlain Valley Educational Services (BOCES), February 29, 2016
• “201: Continuing to Support Trans & GNC Students” – Full day training
  • Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES, January 11, 2018
  • Champlain Valley Educational Services (BOCES), April 28, 2017
• “Families Supporting an Inclusive School Community” – 1.5 hour training
  • Berkshire Country Day School (PreK-8), January 11-12, 2017
• “Creating an Inclusive Queer Health Curriculum” – 1.5 hour training
  • Taconic Hills Central School District, March 18, 2016

Selected Trainings & Workshops for Youth

• “Unpacking LGBTQIA+ Allyship” – 2+ hour training
  • SUNY Plattsburgh Upward Bound Program, June 28, 2017
• “OUT Organizing: How to Make Things Happen” – 1-1.5 hour training
  • Averill Park Central School District (9-12), May 18, 2017
  • True Colors Conference, March 22, 2014
• “Empowering YOU for Social & Political Change” – 1-1.5 hour training
  • Queer Straight Alliance Retreat, May 14, 2016
  • Liberty Partnerships Empire Promise Youth Conference, March 31, 2016
• “Talking Trans: Healthy Masculinities” – 1-1.5 hour workshop
  • Youth In Power: Summer Leadership Camp, August 19, 2016

Selected Guest Lectures, Panels, & Other Conference Workshops

• “Understanding Gender & Sexuality in Schools,” New York State School Counselors Association Annual Conference, November 17, 2017
• “Supporting LGBTQIA+ Youth in Your Agency,” Through Her Eyes: Human Service Conference, October 27, 2017
• “Schools in Transition Workshop,” National Education Association (NEA) Conference on Racial and Social Justice, June 28, 2017
• “Substance Use and LGBTQ Communities Panel,” Supporting LGBTQ Clients: Clinicians Conference; Sponsored by the MaeBright Group, Massachusetts Department of Public Health (Bureau of Substance Abuse Services & Office of Youth and Young Adult Services), Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, and Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth, May 16, 2017
• “Bully: Film Talk-Back Panel,” Saratoga Film Forum, October 14, 2013

Keynote Addresses 

• “Supporting LGBTQ Clients: Clinicians Conference;” Sponsored by the MaeBright Group, Massachusetts Department of Public Health (Bureau of Substance Abuse Services & Office of Youth and Young Adult Services), Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, and Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth, May 16, 2017
• “NYSED Guidelines for TGNC Students,” New York United Teachers (NYSUT), January 30, 2016

Awards

• “Educator of the Year”, GLSEN NY Capital Region, Annual Awards Gala,  2017

Selected Media Appearances

• “New York schools remain hostile for many LGBTQ secondary students, GLSEN Report Finds”. GLSEN National, January 2017.
• “Planned Parenthood diversifies transgender services”. Register-Star, December 2016.
• “Coalition rallies with Muslims against ‘KKK Presidency”. Altamont Enterprise, December 2016.
• “Hudson Pride gets funds to support LGBT elders”. Register-Star, November 2016.
• “LGBTQ advocates lobby in Albany”. NYSUT United, June 2016.
• “Schenectady’s gay community shows solidarity with Orlando”. Daily Gazette, June 2016.
• “Community event to support LGBTQ youth”. Your Niskayuna, March 2016.
• “LGBT Advocates: Conversion Therapy”. TWC News, February 2016.
• “Groups working together for a more inclusive BCHS”. Bethlehem Schools, Dec 2015.
• “Visibility club prepares for Spirit Day”. Daily Gazette, October 2015.
• “Student protests after school tells him he can’t wear drag”. WAMC, October 2015.
• “Special Report: Growing up transgender”. News 10, August 2015.
• “State Ed Dept cracks down on discrimination against trans students”. WNYT, July 2015.
• “Local school district considers bathrooms”. CBS 6 Albany, December 2014.
• “Pride Forum: Safety For All Ups Performance”. Register-Star, April 2014.
• “Impact Show with Barbara Brabetz”. Open Stage Media, September 2013.

Publications

• Forthcoming: “Atlas of a Northeastern Trans / Queer Educator: Or How We Must Acknowledge the Strength of LGBTQ Students,” Gender Diversity and LGBTQ Advocacy and Inclusion in Schools, Routledge, 2018
• “First Impressions: then Astronomy Lessons” & “Jigsaw Body/Bones,” Hematopoiesis Press, Issue 1, January 2017
• “Song to be Sung in a Round” & “If It Were Warmer Our Arms Could Come Out & Take Us Away With Them,” Up the River, Issue 2, May 2014
• “Gymnastics Were More My Thing Than Dancing,” Mud Luscious Press, Issue 14, January 2011
• “Throwing the Dancer Out the Window,” Love Lessens the Mess-ages.” “Tell Me When We’re Home,” “Dizzymoving to Canada Home”, & “I Could Bring You to the Mountains But…,” The Scrambler, Issue 43, November/December 2010
• Various Poems, AlexZine, Issue 2, December 2010
• “What I Would Say to the Girl Ghost of Myself,” Next Door Magazine, Issue 5, November 2009
• Various Poems, The Farmhouse Review, Issue 12, Summer 2009
• “An FU to the Men in Blue” & “Midnight Beehive Bike Battle,” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Feminist Press, Volume 36, Fall / Winter 2008