CO-Owner, CONSULTANT AND TRAINER• Consultant on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues providing resources and training to agencies including Cleveland City Council, the city of Cleveland police department, Cleveland’s office of diversity, the Metro Health System, Northeast Ohio Medical School, GLSEN, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center of Cleveland, independent medical and mental health practitioners, the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Akron Children's Hospital and university groups across the region• Trained over 1,000 people in the last 2 years with a focus on the transgender and gender expansive community. Companies like Nvent, organizations and medical schools such as NEOMED and churches like First Congregational Church of Akron just to name a few.• Published author• Facilitates several monthly support groups for transgender people and their friends and family

Adjunct Professor to teach undergraduate class on Oppression and Privilege in a Multicultural Society. Privilege flings open the doors of opportunity in a multicultural society. Oppression jams those doors tightly shut. This course provides students with understandings of how oppression and privilege operate in a multicultural society to restrict the life chances of minority and disenfranchised group members. Increasing knowledge about the nature and dynamics of oppression and privilege are fundamental dimensions of the ability to value a diverse world. This undertaking requires self-assessment and reflection on discrimination, oppression, and privilege as components of individual awareness. Such insight will help students live, work, study, and play well with “others” who are culturally different from themselves with respect to race/ethnicity, religion, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and age. Beyond increasing respectful social interaction, it is hoped that students will be motivated to work towards dismantling systems that perpetuate de-valuing, exploitation, marginalization, and violence against members of subordinate groups. Major consideration will be given to structures of oppression and privilege related to racism, classism, religious bigotry, sexism, heterosexism/ trangenderism, ableism, and ageism.The emphasis is on how oppression and dominant group privilege manifest at the individual, institutional, and societal/cultural levels. This course highlights how the pervasive nature of inequality is interwoven throughout interpersonal social, cultural, political, and economic institutions and systems. The course also focuses on how privilege, the flip side of oppression, opens doors of advantage and favor while oppression locks them tightly. Key concepts will be presented to explain how structures of dominance, privilege, and subordination are manifested, paralleled, and interconnected.

A skilled communicator with years of experience in working with organizations of all sizes. Clients include for-profit and non-profit organizations and companies, colleges, schools and conferences, health care facilities, social services agencies and foster parents, clergy and lay leaders, law enforcement agencies, politicians and governmental offices. An expert in customizing services to meet an organization’s needs, as well working with youth and adults, possessing superb skills in advocacy, social justice, and cultural competence.

Compass Consulting Services is a minority certified and women-owned organizational development firm that helps companies meet their optimal performance by maximizing employee relationships and fostering inclusive work environments. We are experts in the following areas:o Diversity & Inclusion Managemento Conflict Managemento Communicationo Leadership Developmento Team BuildingThrough facilitated discussion, we raise participant’s awareness and increase their skill sets. These provide the foundation of greater understanding of oneself and others and help to cultivate an environment where differences are appreciated and respected. If organizations can achieve this environment, they will see more productive employees, more unique solutions to problems, higher rates of retention and stronger bottom lines.We utilize a variety of methods throughout the process, tailored to fit the task that needs to be completed. When appropriate, our methodology is rooted in small group experiential learning. Our customized workshops progress from low to higher risk exercises to build trust among the group members and investment in the work. In order to reach higher levels of performance, we provide on-going services to build upon the strengths of the organization and capitalize upon new learning.

Margie's Hope assists transgender and non-binary people in need!

Summer, high school youth program. Helping youth to develop a personal leadership vision and unique direction in leadership. Understand and apply concepts of gender and Leadership including the difference between: biological sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression."Setting aside modern technology, students and faculty engage with human communities in the context of multiple religious Traditions with an emphasis on the Native American worldviews, sustainable living, and gender and leadership. Building on Year One, we explore our relationships to self, others and the Earth as we overcome personal physical challenges, engage in collaborative leadership and listen to the leader within."

Dare2Care is an Ohio based non-profit organization dedicated to providing leadership educational scholarship opportunities to teens and to fostering community awareness of LGBT bullying.We are here to make a difference in the lives of our young people. Young people who are asking for better skills to talk to each other about what it means to live in community with others. Young people who will go on to be leaders and will take with them into their future what we have given them from our past. Young people who already know ‘bullying is wrong’ and are asking for the adults in their lives to give them what they need to show each other something different.Dare2Care consists of:Volunteer Board of DirectorsA dynamic group of committee members made up of Event Planners, Model Agents, Artists and Directors of Show committed to presenting an annual fundraising Performance Arts Gala which is inclusive, arousing, educational, and courageousSponsored Teens and Teachers at Lakewood High SchoolParents, Educators and Community members supporting our efforts to make a difference in the lives of young peopleDonors that allow us to continue to provide scholarshipsMission:Dare2Care provides sponsored teens and teachers with a variety of transformative and leadership development opportunities creating fair minded leaders willing to educate others about identity and to bring awareness of bullying.Vision:To create communities free of harassment, brutality, and indifference toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) youths.

Organizing a conference on Trans* and Faith working with local Trans* communities, organizations, churches, and schools. Prepare the ground for future Equality Ride and Artifacts events (separate programs exploring implementation in Ohio).Experienced in social justice work with a strong focus on Inter-sectional Justice to organize across communities and movements for equity and equality. I foster, mentor and develop leadership of LGBTQ people and Allies in two tracks: Field Organizing and Social Entrepreneurship. I have undergone rigorous training on the principles of nonviolence as it relates to social justice issues and developing organizer best practices.The heart of the Delegate program is to enable Delegates to organize and mobilize activists, leaders, and their communities to tackle multiple forms of oppression and diverse issues and policies, with a particular focus on the many forms of migration. I act as collaborative forces in my own community to foster leadership in LGBTQ movements. As a Delegate, I have hands-on experience as an organizer through using art to create community, participate in political initiatives, analyze political movements and historical contexts for our current activism, and educate myself and others. I have experience in making resource connections, providing training to individuals and organizations, organizing events and symposiums, public leadership, and developing programs and responses to local needs.

TransOhio serves the Ohio transgender and ally communities by providing services, education, support and advocacy which promotes and improves the health, safety and life experience of the Ohio transgender individual and community.

Fund raising and financial management, outreach and public relations, program development, administration.Jacob served as the public representative of TransFamily, its staff, members and volunteers, and by extension, the larger transgender constituency in the greater Cleveland area. As such, he developed and maintained relationships with allied nonprofit and for-profit Cleveland agencies, foundations, funders, corporate and private donors and representatives of government and the media for the purpose of acquiring funding and providing education, outreach and mutual support. It was also the responsibility of Jacob to develop sufficient revenue to operate TransFamily, oversee the budget, manage the activities of TransFamily’s staff and supervise the maintenance of the physical space in which TransFamily carried out its operation.

Accepted calls from clients and potential clients, filed documentation with Courts, arranged meetings with potential clients, filed client documentation, and sent correspondences to clients and attorneys