Key expert on two initiatives being led by a global consortium using innovative ideas to create solutions to longstanding challenges. I am currently a lead developer of an education curriculum initiative being rolled out at three schools in the Los Angeles area.

The Council is made up of approximately 30 special governmental employees selected from NIH Institutes and Centers (IC) Advisory Councils. The Council advises the NIH Director on matters related to the policies and activities of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives. The Council also acts as an external advisory panel to the IC Directors during consideration of a list of potential trans-NIH initiatives.

Providing a variety of technical assistance functions to nonprofits. I specialize in many forms of writing (including having written $110M in successful grant proposals), evaluation, trainings and project management.

Providing grant writing services to a variety of nonprofits. Providing cultural competency trainings to states, law enforcement agencies, nonprofits, and one media agency. Senior Consultant/Subject Matter Expert for FDA youth health promotion campaign.

One of the eight CDC tobacco & cancer disparity networks. What do we do? Gather and spread best practices and policies related to LGBT tobacco and cancer control to government officials, policymakers, and service providers across the country.

I began my tenure at Fenway Institute by being their Director of Transgender Health Research. In this capacity, I participated in a series of programmatic and clinical research projects aimed at building the knowledge-base about transgender health and policy. For three years of this time I procured funding for then ran a national multi-site research study testing a novel idea for smoking cessation recruitment. For the final five years of my tenure, I procured funding for then ran one of CDC's six tobacco disparity networks. Much of the daily activity on this project was focused on policy: creating model policies to assist state governments in enhancing their work in this area, and working with a variety of federal policymakers to improve focus on and research about this issue.

In this capacity I regularly met with federal officials to influence the development of policy about this topic. We prepared white papers for distribution among federal policymakers and presented at conferences on applicable subjects. Our top goal during this time was to achieve LGBT data collection on the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). To that end, we worked with a variety of federal officials, from the cabinet level down to the scientist level, eventually, LGB data collection on the NHIS was achieved.