Welcome to our speakers bureau page. Below you will find a list of available speakers. Feel free to locate a speaker in your area, if none are available email the person nearest to you. Most speakers are willing to travel.

We are always in the process of adding more speakers so please check back often.

Disclaimer: The people listed on the Intersex Collective speakers bureau represent a wide range of experience and beliefs. Intersex Collective cannot endorse specific speakers, so we encourage you to contact speakers directly to see which one best meets your needs.

Lynnell Stephani Long

Lynnell Stephani Long is an Intersex woman, Activist & Educator. She has spoken across the USA & Canada, educating people about Intersex and Intersex Genitalia Mutilation.

Lynnell's short-movies, "My Body is my Body," and "Momma and them call me James," has been shown in multiple film festivals. She recently finished a short-movie called "Still the one," which she hopes to be submitted to film festivals as well.

Lynnell has spoken publicly on the subject of improving treatment for people with Intersex conditions and their families, including an appearance on the Montel Williams Show in 2002 and Oprah Winfrey Show in 2007. Lynnell was also in Intersex documentary "One in 2000" by Ajae Clearway.

She is a license Paramedic in Chicago, columnist and freelance photographer for Windy City Times Magazine; poet, graphic & web designer. Her passion is educating people on Intersex!

Her hope is to prevent what happened to her and other Intersex people to Intersex children. She also wants to let other Intersex adults know they are not alone!

For more informaton please email Lynnell at Lynnellstephani@ameritech.net.

Her personal website is www.millarca.com/intersex.html

Jen Pagonis

Esther Morris Leidolf

Esther Morris Leidolf, BA is the president and founder of the MRKH Organization, a network for women with Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hauser Syndrome. She shares her Intersex experience as an activist, gender and sexuality educator and medical sociologist.

Esther has published articles and studies in Sojourner, OurBodies OurSelves, The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy and most recently in The Journal of Homosexuality, She is available for trainings or talks in classrooms and conferences.

Go to www.MRKH.org for an extensive list of presentations, articles and resources. Her most recent interview about MRKH can be viewed at www.GenderVision.org

For more information please email Esther at mrkhOrg@gmail.com

Debbie Hartman

Debbie Hartman, has been involved with intersex health since her daughter was born in 1993. She has gained a wealth of information after navigating conflicting opinions and misinformation about her daughters physical and mental health care needs. Deb has been featured in 2 teaching videos,Time magazine and various other magazines in the United States as well.

She is a former board member of the intersex society of north america and still serves as one of isna's members on the speaking buerea. She is also a former founding board member of 'Bodies Like Ours'. She has been a regular speaker at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and various locations for Widener University.&n bsp;

She is available to speak in the Philadelphia, Delaware, New Jersey and New York area.

For more information please email Debbie at dhartman61@comcast.net

WESTCOAST

Hida Viloria

Hida Viloria is an intersex activist and writer who has been educating the public about intersex issues since 1996. She has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, "20/20," Inside Edition, and the Tyra Banks Show, among others, written on the topic of intersex for CNN.com (http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/18/hida.viloria.intersex.athlete/index.html), and lectured on the topic at Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. She holds a degree in Gender and Sexuality from U.C. Berkeley.

Hida was born with what is known as "ambiguous genitalia," but unlike the majority of intersex people today, Hida was never operated on or given hormones to "treat" her intersexuality. She believes this was one of the most fortunate things she has ever experienced, and wants people, particularly doctors and parents, to know that she is happy with who she is and wouldn't change her body for the world.

Hida can be contacted through her website at www.hidaviloria.com.

SOUTH

Caitlin Childs is a queer, intersex activst from Atlanta, GA. She got involved in intersex activism at the age of 18 after seeing other intersex activists speak and connecting their struggles to her own diagnosis at the age of 15.

Since then she has spoken at universities, colleges, conferences and to community organizations in Atlanta and around the United States and is a former board member of Bodies Like Ours. She was recently featured in Ajae Clearway's film "One in 2000," and was chosen by Southern Voice (Atlanta's gay weekly) as one of the "Leaders of the Next Generation of Gay Atlanta."

Caitlin is available for speaking engagements of all types and sizes and to all types of audiences, as well as film screenings, panels, classroom lectures, trainings and more.

For more information email Caitlin at caitlinpetrakischilds@gmail.com

NEW ZEALAND

Mani Bruce Mitchell

Mani Bruce Mitchell
Born in 1953 growing up in a remote rural sheep and cattle farm in an era when intersex issues were dealt with shame and secrecy. The road to feeling comfortable in my own skin has been a long and interesting one. I see myself as an intersex person who is not particularly male or female.

A person who now has a good life, who has learned to laugh and have fun. I have a cat, love walking, taking photos and enjoy good food.  I am a counsellor, Change Agent, Educator. My passion is in breaking the silence that has surrounded this issue and working to create change and a better world for intersex people and those who love us. I have lectured, run workshops, attended conferences as a key not speaker in a number of countries including America. I was a participant in the original 1996 video hermaphrodites speak.
The subject of an Award Winning TV Documentary Mani’s Story.

A subject in Rebecca Swans photographic Art Book Assume nothing www.rebeccaswan.com
A contributor to the award winning films made by Kirsty McDonald about Rebecca’s work the short film Black and White and the full length feature film Assume Nothing. I am currently working on a new documentary that will further inform the world that the intersex issue is universal, it will show using personal narratives extraordinary courage, the diversity that is our reality.

As a counsellor with my own private practice I work daily with people seeking to create lives of meeting and purpose. I see and understand the importance of people having ownership of there own lives and bodies, of being treated with dignity and respect.

These days most of my educational work is with agencies and government departments. I participated in the Human Rights Commissions in both San Francisco and in New Zealand. Commissions whose published reports looked at Intersex and Gender Identity Issues.

Should you be interested in contacting me my email address is mani.mitchell@xtra.co.nz I am willing to travel and will work with you to assist any conference and or training programme you may be developing.
Or for more information www.ianz.org.nz